Ice pack mostly solid. Ice has disappeared in the upper six miles of Lake Pepin but remains a formidable 17 inches at other points — more than barges can cut through even when pushed by 6,200-horsepower twin-screw pusher vessels. The latest borings by the Army Corps, on Wednesday, found blue ice, also called “black ice,” off Lake City and south to the Chippewa River delta. There remains no white ice on the 22-mile Mississippi shipping lane through lake. White ice is softer with air bubbles.

SPRING VALLEY, Minn. — severe wind rolled a truck and its semi-trailer off U.S. Highway 63 and on their side. The driver, Dusty Earl Smith, age 36, of Waterloo, Iowa, was taken 28 miles to a Rochester hospital. His injuries appeared non-life threatening, said Fillmore County deputies. The accident was about 3 a.m. south of Spring Valley.

Earlier: High winds close Iowa-Wisconsin ferry

Just off the main channel. Which is mostly clear as far upriver as Lake Pepin, 27 miles  from Winona. Image: Steve Lunde

Earlier: Lake Pepin ice pack yields inch by inch

Softball: Westcliff 1, Viterbo 6

Softball: Wesleyan of South Dakota 8, Viterbo 2

Tennis (women): Ohio Northern 6, Winona State 1

Basketball (boys): Adams Southland Rebels 87, Lewiston-Altura Cardinals 60

Basketball (boys): Goodhue Wildcats 76, Caledonia Warriors 71

Basketball (girls): Rosemount Irish 65, Rochester Mayo Spartans 64

Basketball (girls): Rochester Lourdes Eagles 79, Norwood Young America Central Raiders 61

Basketball (girls): Stewartville Tigers 65, Cretin-Derham Hall Raiders 51

Basketball (boys): Wisconsin Rapids Assumption Royals 51, Cochrane-Fountain City Pirates 42

Basketball (boys): Galesville Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Red Hawks 90, Stanley-Boyd Orioles 80

Basketball (boys): Eau Claire Regis Ramblers 63, Durand-Arkansaw Panthers 43

Basketball (boys): West Salem Panthers 73, LaCrosse Central RiverHawks 70

ROLLINGSTONE, Minn. — Game wardens and sheriff’s investigators have been making rounds on Horseshoe Road in a query about deer poaching. It’s part of an ongoing investigation, sources said. Horseshoe Road is a dead-end into a coulee with 11 rural homes southwest of Rollingstone.

LANSING, Iowa — The ferry across the Mississippi suspended service until high winds die down. Th ferry normally runs 5:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. 12 cars at a time. Gusts of 45 to 60 mph were predicted overnight in a broad swath of Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota and northwest Iowa. Forecasters said the winds were prelude to a weekend storm that could  drop 20 inches of snow.

Earlier: Lansing bridge: Good-bye, ol’ friend

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WINONA, Minn. — A Milwaukee woman who’s been around Winona awhile was arrested after a verbal assault on a residential block on the Near West Side. A woman told police she was walking her dogs when Geneva Alea Madonado blocked her ,screaming and yelling and threatening to kill the dogs. Officers found Madonado nearby. She denied any assault but, police said, was making no sense: She appeared to be in a mental breakdown. Police took Madonado, age 33, to the hospital for a 72-hour psychological hold. The incident, about 3 p.m., was in the 150 block of McBride Street. It was Madonado’s second run-in of the day with police. In the mornng she was ticketed at the Kwik Trip convenience store at Huff and Sarnia as unwanted. She had been evicted a few days earlier  and told not to come back but did anyway. Also: On Wednesday she was arrested and charged with smashing a glass door at another convenience e store after hours and stealing cigarettes and lemonade.

Earlier: Homeless woman faces dual theft charges

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Three police officers have been placed on paid leave pending an investigation into the fatal shooting of a Rochester man in an encounter.  Police Chief Jim Franklin said he’s asked the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to conduct the investigation as an external third party. At a news conference Franklin added little to what was earlier reported except that children were in the apartment where the shooting occurred and were in danger. The man who was shot was in a mental health cisis and was “increasingly agitated,” the chief said.

Earlier: Man shot, killed in struggle with Rochester police

Tables in winter storage. Stacked not so neatly. Soon the Prairie Island campground on the Mississippi River near Winona soon will be alive with summer campers. For now the 177 camper and trailer sites are unoccupied. A few sites remain open for reservations. Image: Steve Lunde

WITOKA, Minn. — Deputies arrested a Wiscoy Valley woman on an existing warrant after being called to a family disturbance. Taken into custody was Sara Jeanne Petruzzi, age 45. This was about 12:40 p.m. The disturbance, in the 30900 block of County Road 17 in southern Winona County, was mediated and Petruzzi taken 20 miles to jail in Winona.

DECORAH, Iowa —A Decorah woman has been arrested after investigators concluded that she laced lasagna with an opioid to induce the miscarriage of a fetus being carried by another woman. Amber Dena Snow, 36, was charged with:

> Delivering a controlled substance.

> Intentionally terminating a pregnancy without consent.

The investigation began in January when Winneshiek County sheriff’s office was contacted, according to the criminal complaint. An online search history linked Snow and a second woman to the miscarriage. The other woman is not named in the complaint, but more charges and arrests are expected. The complaint is specific that a family-size pan of lasagna was delivered to the pregnant woman’s family on December 28 without the woman’s knowledge of the presence of the potent pain-killer oxycodone. The break in the case appears to have been a juvenile who was reportedly was aware of poisoning scheme and opposed. Although the complaint is silent on the connection of individuals in the case, the Des Moines Regster reorted that Snow shares custody of her juvenile child with an individual related to the pregnant victim to whom the lasagna was delivered.

Snow. Bail at $100,000.

WINONA, Minn. — A Wisconsin driver who was clocked at 70 mph in a 50 zone through Winona has more to worry about than a speeding ticket. The officer who smade the stop said he smelled alcohol vapors when the driver lowered her window.  Brenna Ruth Robinson, age 29, of Altoona, was taken to jail, where a test found her blood was 0.20% alcohol — 2-1/2 times the impairment threshold. The stop was about 1:20 a.m. on State Highway 61 at Parks Avenue near the hospital. The officer said Robinson ‘s eyes were bloodshot and her speech slurred.  Roadside sobriety exercises confirmed her impairment, the officer said.

WINONA, Minn. — The group Our Voices in Winona rceived a $5,000 grant to support youth mental health. The grant, from the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, is for projects celebrating cultural identity through artistic expression.

Ice has broken.  The 800-horsepower harbor towboat Suland and companions Chuck B and Little Charley have been tied up all winter at Winona’s commercial harbor. Their rest will end within a month when commercial shipping resumes on the Mississippi. For now they still slumber in the former Crooked Slough inlet, which was straightened into today’s fleeting harbor in 1881. Image: Steve Lunde

Basketball (girls): Perham Yellow Jackets 66, Rochester Lourdes Eagles 63

Basketball (girls): Rochester Mayo Spartans 73, Monticello Magic 71

Basketball (girls): Stewartville Tigers 73, Wilmar Cardinals 54

ROCHESTER, Minn. —  A Rochester police officer shot and fatally injured a man in a struggle at an apartment building on the Northwest Side. The man was pronounced dead at a hospital. The names of the officer and the victim were not released immediately.  The Poluce Department confirmed the incident was about 9:30 p.m. and offered these details:

> Officers responded to a call on Ashland Drive Northwest for a man experiencing a mental health crisis.

> Officers and a social worker determined the man posed a threat to himself and others and should be taken to a hospital.

> The man resisted and and grabbed one officer’s gun.

> Another officer fired his gun, the bullet striking the man.

“Putt, Putt, No More Pizza Hut.” As adapted from the pizzeria chain’s first television commercial in 1956. The Winona shop closed last week and awaits a new tenant. Entrepreneur Alice Sesyok had wanted to start a cannabis shop in the structure, but the city zoning board said no. The building, at 1630 West Service, was less than 150 from a residential zone. Too close, the Board ruled unanimously.  Image: Steve Lunde

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LACROSSE, Wis. — A LaCosse woman was arrested after a shot was fired at a male relative at a North Side apartment. She missed, police said. Mary McGuire, age 48, was jailed on charges of recklessly endangering safety and of wielding firearm while intoxicated. This was about 4:30 p.m. near Onalaska Avenue and Avon Street.

McGuire. Bail at $50,000. Abstention from alcohol and guns ordered.