TREMPEALEAU, Wis.  – A 74-year-old Trempealeau man walking along the Burlington Northern n mainline in the Trempealeau Wildlife Refuge was hit by a freight train. He was taken 27 miles to a LaCrosse hospital. His most serious injury appeared to be a broken arm, said Trempealeau County Sheriff Brett Semingson. The sheriff declined to release the man’s name. The accident was about 3:15 p.m.

COCHRANE, Wis. – A silo fire forced La Crosse Milling employees to evacuate the trackside milling complex on U.S. Highway 35 outside Cochrane. No =one was injured. Fire crews contained the fire to one silo, which held oats. Tentatively the fire was blamed on an overheated machine. The fire was reported about 9:15 p.m. when smoke began pouring from the silo.

La Crosse Milling. Silo lost at Cochrane’s largest employer Image: Buffalo County sheriff

WINONA, Minn. – A man in a passing car hurled a jar loaded with a brown liquid at the Enlightened Equipment factory in the 1100 block of West Fifth Street. The jar shattered on the building.. Aside from the brown mess there was no damage. This was about 10:50 p.m. A witness said the jar was hurled from a white Honda. The plant, which manufactures high-end camping gear, has 80 employees. Police were unable to identify the liquid but said it was runny and  neither petroleum nor paint.

WINONA, Minn. – A raucous crowd scattered in the Maplewood neighborhood on the Far West End as police arrived. The disturbance had been reported to police about 6:20 p.m. Of a few bystanders who remained standing around , none wanted to talk, police said. Officers, however, recognized Jacob Jose Colon, 25, Winona, for whom they knew an arrest warrant was active. He was arrested. The disturbance was at 1750 Kraemer Drive near the Housing Authority offices.

Colon. Earlier warrant for animal cruelty.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man told police that someone stole his car keys and ear-bud music devices from his place as he slept.  The man said he woke up about 7:25 a.m. and realized the items weren’t on his kitchen table, where he had left them. Police found no sign of forced entry. The man said he may have left his door unlocked This was in the 650 block of Harriet Street on the Near West Side.

WINONA, Minn. – Police ticketed a Winona Health patient after the hospital staff reported a nurse performing a blood-sugar test was bitten by the patient. Accused of assault was Tyler Lee Burbach, 29, of Winona. The nurse, a forearm bleeding, was treated in the hospital emergency ro0m. The incident had been in the intensive-care unit. The nurse told police that Burbach became combative during the blood-sugar check. He had calmed down by time police arrived. They described him as uncooperative and silent and  declining any explanation of what happened. Burbach was not taken into custody. He was left in the hospital’s care.

WANAMINGO, Minn. – A Mayer man, 90 miles from home, was injured when he overcorrected his car and rolled into the median on U.S. Highway 52. Dakota Camp Porter, 18, was taken 50 miles to a St. Paul hospital. His injuries appeared sustainable, Goodhue County deputies sad. The accident was northeast of Wanamingo about 12:40 a.m. Porter was headed north toward the Cities in a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt. The airbag deployed, deputies said.

LEWISTON, Minn. — Deputies busted a booze party around a rural bonfire a mile southwest of Lewiston. The revelers dispersed as deputies rolled up, but four were a little slow and were cited for underage consumption:

> Madison Kay Simon, 18, of Preston.

> Grady Schott, 20, of Lewiston.

> Jacob Erikson, 20, of Chatfield.

> Connor Jax, 20, of Rochester,.

An anonymous caller alerted the sheriff’s office to the gathering and complained abut a lot of loud engine revving. This was about 11:35 p.m. in the 26000 block of Thompson Road near Rush Creek.

Baseball: UW-Whitewater 11, UW-LaCrosse 3

Softball: Saint Mary’s 3, Gustavus Adolphus 1

Softball: Saint Mary’s 3, Bethel 5

Baseball: LaCrosse Aquinas Blugolds 6, St. Croix Falls Saints 3

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis.  – Responding to an emergency call, the Winona County sheriff’s rescue team reached a disabled pleasure boat on the Mississippi River near Fountain City. The deputies towed the vessel to shore. All three people aboard were fine. This was after dark about 9 p.m.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – A man walked into a box car in a moving train near downtown Rochester and was injured fatally. He died at a nearby hospital. Police declined to release the victim’s name immediately but said he was 23 years old and from Rochester. The accident was about 10:45 p.m. at the of Civic Center Drive crossing. The train was moving slowly through town on the Canadian Pacific freight line from Winona to South Dakota.

On poles sprouting from spirea beds. A fine breeze takes the folds out of  a trio of loyalty banners at the Central Park at Broadway and Main streets. The new Minnesota flag with its distinctive north star is doing duty on its official launch day. The day coincided with the 166th anniversary of  Minnesota’s admission to the Union. Image: Steve Lunde

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Wedgewood Cove. Promotes itself as the ritziest place in Albert Lea to golf, dine and, yes, even marry. No written policy, however, on gay weddings. Recent club practice appears unfriendly to renting for drag queen performances.

Gay Pride event moves fund-raiser to museum

ALBERT LEA, Minn.  – In an apparent homophobic reversal, the management at Wedgewood Cove Golf Club cancelled a drag show that had been scheduled as part of Pride Month in June. The drag show organizers quickly moved the event to the Freeborn Historical Museum as an alternate venue. The Wedgewood Club  has declined to explain its decision against the drag show. A source who declined to be identified for an interview confirmed there had been “pushback” against the event. As word spread about the Wedgewood Cove action, so did criticism. City Council member Sherri Rasmussen called the action another wrong not-welcome-here message to make gay people feel they don’t belong.

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Yesteryear’s colors. Winona State crews raised the wrong state flag on every pole on campus Saturday. Elsewhere in town the new North Star flag was waving on its inaugural day as the official state symbol.  This slip-up was outside the Kane cafeteria, which bears the name of retired Army colonel  Jack Kane, a long-time university vice president of student affairs and facilities  Image: Steve Lunde

Earlier: New flag: Coming soon to a flag pole near you

DUNCAN, Okla. — The National Rural Water Association declared that Rochester has the best-tasting drinking water in Minnesota. Thirty-one local water utilities in the state were considered. The Oklahoma-based NRWA judging panel was comprised of water experts The association, a non-profit, provides training, support and promotion for water and wastewater professionals in small cities and rural communities. The Rochester Public Utilities serves 41,000 businesses and households in 60 square miles.

Classy for its place and time. First house by a settler in Minnesota Territory south of St. Paul.

HOMER, Minn. – Seasonal guided historical tours resume Friday at the 1850 Bunnell House in Homer. The architecturally distinctive Steamboat Gothic house was built by frontier riverman Willard Bunnell. Since 1972 the house has been on the National Register of Historic Places. The Winona Historical Society maintains the house as a museum. Admission $3 to $5. Address: 36106 Old Homer Road. Tours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.:

> May 17 and 18.

> June 14 and 15.

> July 19 and 20.

> August 2 and 3.

> September 20 and 21.

Baseball: Saint Mary’s 19, Saint John’s 4

Baseball: St. Olaf 11, Saint Mary’s 9

Baseball: UW-LaCrosse 17, UW-Oshkosh 9

Baseball: UW-LaCrosse 8, UW-Stevens Point 1

Softball: UW-Oshkosh 4, UW-LaCrosse 2