Basketball (boys): Arcadia Raiders 55, Chippewa Falls McDonell Macks 52

Basketball (boys): Onalaska Luther Knights 73, Hillsboro Tigers 46

Basketball (boys): Bangor Cardinals 67, Melrose-Mindoro Mustangs 64

Basketball (girls): Holmen Vikings 50, New Richmond Tigers 45

WINONA, Minn. –Police arrested a woman accused of threatening to kill a man with a kitchen knife and wrapping a belt around his neck. Booked at the county jail for domestic assault was Passion Rakeema De Andrade-Perez, 32. The man’s injuries weren’t significant, police said. The incident was about 1:45 a.m. in a house in the 550 block of East Fifth Street. Police described what happened as a boyfriend-girlfriend incident. Alcohol was a factor, police said.

Andrade-Perez. Among booking charges: Assault with deadly weapon.

LEWISTON, Minn. – A man sought on arrest warrants slipped out the back door of a house at the Arches as deputies were knocking on the front door. The man disappeared into the night. The house, on U.S. Highway 14, has been on a Winona County sheriff watch list especially since recent incidents involving drugs in the area and also transient visitors. Aware of the possibility of resistance to arrest, deputies stationed three squad cars at the address. This was  about 19:30 p.m. Because the house backs up to steep wooded bluffs, a traditional perimeter wasn’t possible. Nobody answered when deputies knocked at the front door with the arrest warrants. Without a search warrant, deputies didn’t attempt to enter. The arrest warrants were from Wisconsin for drugs.

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SPRING VALLEY, Minn. – A motorist struck a horse-drawn Amish buggy carrying nine people in the dark north of Spring Valley. Six Amish were taken 27 miles to a Rochester hospital. Worst hurt were a 12-year-old and a 1-year-old. They were reported in in stable condition. The accident was about 10:05 p.m. Fillmore County deputies said that the buggy was struck by an SUV and that driver didn’t stop. The vehicle, deputies said, was later found parked at a Spring Valley address.

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Fillmore County 1

The buggy accident was the second on Fillmore County Road 1 in six months. In September two Amish children were killed and two injured on their way to school. The road connects Spring Valley and Rochester to the north. It’s a wide two-lane, paved road that carries a lot of day-time traffic as an alternative the north-south Highway 63 route between Stewartville and Rochester. Many Amish families live along County Road 1. The speed limit is posted at 55 mph.  Frequent yellow diamond-shape warning signs silhouette an Amish horse and  buggy.

Baseball: Winona State at Missouri Science and Tech

Basketball (men): Northern State of South Dakota 79, Winona State 80

Basketball (women): Northern State of South Dakota 61, Winona State 47

Gymnastics (women): UW-LaCrosse 192.375, Winona State 186.975

Hockey (men): Saint Mary’s 4, Concordia of St. Paul 3

Hockey (women): Saint Mary’s 3, Concordia of St. Paul 1

Tennis (men): Saint Mary’s 9. Crown 0

Tennis (women): Saint Mary’s 9. Crown 0

WINONA, Minn. – A driver whose blood-alcohol level tested at 0.22% was arrested in a traffic stop. Darrel Robert Woolley, 56, of Winona, might never have been stopped had he not run a stop sign, police said. The arrest was at Mankato Avenue and Howard Street. Officers said that Woolley smelled of alcohol and that  his speech was slurred and his eyes blood-shot and watery. And he failed field sobriety tests. His blood-alcohol was almost triple the 0.08% legal threshold for impairment.

Woolley. Other charges: Revoked driver license, no proof of insurance.

WINONA, Minn. –Police found meth while checking the socks of a man being booked at the Winona County jail. Michael Wayne Zyirblis, 56, was wearing the sock. Inside was 0.3 grams of meth, the jailer said. Zyirblis had been arrested at a downtown bar from which he had been barred for previous encounters. New charges, besides for the meh, were for an illegal trespass. . The latest arrest was about 1 p.m.

Zyirblis. A long record of one-year banishments as an unwelcome person at businesses around town.

ST. CHARLES, Minn. — Three persons were injured, none seriously, in a three-vehicle smashup just east of St. Charles on U.S. Highway 14 at County Road 119. Taken 22 miles to a Rochester hospital were:

> Sarah Hong, 50, of Winona.

> Pearly Robert Paapcrabb, 46, of Winona.

> Tessa Fay Ryan, 17, of St Charles.

Police said that Ryan, driving a 2012 Chevy Malibu, eastbound Highway 14, was waiting to turn left onto the county road. A 2020 Ram pickup, also eastbound, struck the Malibu. Then a 2016 Ford Fiesta, westbound, plowed into the collision.  Paapcrabb and Hong were in the Fiesta. In the Ram was Quintin James Ehlo. 39, of Minneiska, who was unhurt.

WINONA, Minn. –Bail was set at $300,000 for a Winona school teacher accused of sexual relations with three high school athletes, all girls. Eric Dione Birth, 29, posted the bail and was released pending a court appearance February 29. The bail was set by Judge Carmaine Sturino, who has been on loan from neighboring Houston County.  The judge ordered Birth not to contact the women who alleged the crimes nor to use any electronic devices or social media. At the bail hearing, Winona County prosecutor Karin Sonneman called Birth a predator.  Birth’s attorney, Christine Ledebuhr of Winona, responded that the word “predator” was overdrawn. Ledebuhr said that Birth had known for weeks that he was under investigation and hadn’t fled. Also, she said, the allegations were cold cases – one eight years ago and the most recent more than six months ago. Conviction on each of four counts could mean 15 years in prison and a  $30,000 fine.

Earlier: Teacher booted early in police sex misdeed query

Earlier: High school teacher accused of teen sex

Birth. Out of jail pending more court proceedings. He had two bail options: $300,000 for unconditional release, $200,000 with conditions.

LUTSEN, Minn. — The upscale Lutsen Lodge, destroyed by fire 1-1/2 weeks ago, had been the subject of lawsuits filed before the fire. The suits were filed by cabin owners who contracted with the lodge as an agent to manage their cabins and rent them out. Karin and Bob Nagel of the Twin Cities claim they were owed $13,000 in a 50-50 split. The Nagles said they hadn’t received a payment since July. Several such cabin-owner suits in Cook County court altogether total $50,000. None of the rental cabins, uphill from the lodge, were damaged.

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COON VALEY, Wis. –  A Coon Valley home was destroyed in a fire while the mother was away dropping her kids off for day-care. She came home to see smoke coming out of the house and called 911. When firefighters arrived, the bottom floor was gone This was about 6:35 a.m. In an attempt to get on top of the fire, they had to bring in an excavator to dig into the house. Firefighters were unable to clear the scene for 3-1/2 hours. Although no one was in house, several pets were thought to have perished inside.

WINONA, Minn. – An-board collision monitor alerted police to an accident on the edge of the Winona State University campus. Sure enough, at King and Winona streets officers found a wreck – a white Ford Fusion with a front end crumpled by crashing into a campus landscape boulder. Where was the driver? Not around. Half an hour later and 11 blocks away, police found the car’s registered owner, Nicholas John Brynjarsson, 22. He was walking home. Err, stumbling home. This was about 3:50 a.m. Police said Brynjarsson admitted to being intoxicated and crashing into the boulder. He was booked for drunken driving. The boulder was unmoved. The Ford Fusion bore of scars from the impact. Brynjarsson? Not a scratch.

Brynjarsson. “Yup, was me who hit the boulder.”

LACROSSE, Wis. – A LaCrosse man and woman were caught in a traffic stop and booked for drug-dealing. With help from a drug-sniffing K-9, police reported finding 443 grams of meth and two meth smoking devices in their car. The couple had just arrived back in LaCrosse from a trip to St. Paul. Later at their home, officers found a large quantity of plastic bags, a bag with meth residue, drug paraphernalia items, and bundled money. Joua and Tou Deng Thao were charged with possession with the intent to deliver meth and maintaining a drug trafficking place.

WINONA, Minn. – A high school phys-ed teacher was arrested after a 1-1/2 month investigation into reports of sexual relationships with female students over the past eight years. Eric Dione Birth, 29, was arrested without resistance abiot 3:30 p.m. at his home on West King Street, police said. He was jailed on three counts of criminal sexual conduct with penetration. Police reported their investigation began this January when a female student came forward and alleged a sexual relationship in 2022. Police investigators then found two former Winona High students, both also women, who said they too had been involved sexually with Birth in 2016 and 2017.

Birth. When booked at jail at 4:10 p.m., within an hour of arrest.

STOCKTON, Minn. – After a snow plow driver spotted a car in the ditch on Stockton Hill, a deputy found a man still at the wheel and apparently drunk. He wasn’t injured. Zachary Sheridan Ccummings, 29, of Winona, told the deputy that he had pulled over at Bow Hunter Road to check for text messages and that the car slipped on the wet, slippery slope. The deputy said the man showed signs of impairment: Droopy eyelids, bloodshot and watery eyes, slurred speech. His blood-alcohol level tested at 0.14% and 0.15% in separate checks. Impairment begins at.08% by law. This was about 1:45 a.m. Cummings said he downed a “couple beers” an hour earlier in Winona.