Baseball: Grand View 10, Winona State 2

Softball: Winona State 10, Grand View 0

Basketball (men): UW-LaCrosse 78, UW-Oshkosh 67

Basketball (men): )Gustavus Adolphus 72, Saint Mary’s 63

Basketball (women): Gustavus Adolphus 70, Saint Mary’s 36

Basketball (women): UW-LaCrosse 64, UW-Oshkosh 55

Basketball (boys): Rochester Mayo Spartans 70, Winona Winhawks 60

Basketball (boys): Winona Cotter Ramblers 65, Randolph Rockets 45

Basketball (boys): Rochester Century Panthers 77, Owatonna Huskies 59

Basketball (girls): Winona Winhawks 59, Rochester Mayo Spartans 57

Basketball (girls): Rochester Century Panthers 56, Owatonna Huskies 43

LACRESCENT, Minn. – A 63-year-old man, George Edward Howe, was pinned under a tractor and killed while pulling logs from a wooded area on his Apple Blossom Drive farm. First-responders inflated emergency air bags to hoist the tractor, but it was too late. This was about 4 p.m. in the 32000 block of County Road 1. As officers reconstructed what happened, a log being pulled by the tractor lodged between two trees, causing the tractor to flip over backwards in soggy ground.

WINONA, Minn. – Police found a handgun in a car at the U-Haul parking lot on Cottonwood Drive on the Far West End. This was after a tip that men in separate cars had been seen exchanging a weapon. It looked like a transaction, the tipster said. In one of the cars, police reported finding a disassembled Kimber 10mm handgun. The driver said he had no idea who owned the weapon or who how it got there. The driver asked police to take the gun – he didn’t want it — and hold it for safe-keeping. The driver of the second vehicle said he couldn’t explain the gun either.

Kimber. Retail ranges from $700 to $1,600 depending on model.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The Minnesota State Patrol’s chief, Colonel Matt Langer, has been hired by the International Association of Chiefs of Police as director of global policing As a Minnesota trooper Langer began his way up the ranks 25 years ago.

WINONA, Minn. – The Fire Department reported 45 emergency medical calls plus 6 fire calls in recent days:

> Tuesday, February 13: 2 medical calls plus 1 fire call.

> Monday, February 12: 10 medical calls plus no fire calls.

> Sunday, February 11: 4 medical calls plus 3 fire call.

> Saturday, February10: 7 medical calls plus 1 fire call.

> Friday, J February 9: 9 medical calls plus no fire calls.

> Thursday, February 8: 4 medical calls plus 1 fire call.

> Wednesday, February 7: 9 medical calls plus no fire call.

Earlier: Emergency, fire crews 49 calls

LEWISTON, Minn. – A sheriff’s deputy was called to a house at the Arches by a man who said he found somebody else’s personal belongings and also pills at his place. This was the neighborhood where two men were arrested in separate incidents the day before. They were wandering around outdoors in drug-induced stupors a few houses away. The man who called about finding stray pills said they weren’t his and he didn’t know where they come from.

Earlier: Cops: Inchoate wanderer loaded with cash, fetanyl

Earlier: Cops struggle to force drugs out of man’s throat

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona driver whom police said admitted to smoking marijuana earlier was arrested and booked for impaired driving. Audrey Mae Talamantes, 40, had been stopped with a bad taillight near Fourth and Hamilton streets abut 1:45 a.m. Officers said that Talamantes yelled when they cuffed her after she failed a field sobriety test but offered no further resistance. A passenger, a 34-year-old woman, was arrested on a felony warrant from Olmsted County.

Talamantes. Formal charge awaits return of blood draw test from t state crime lab.

Warm day for warm hearts. Usually Mike and Kelly Beckman need to tread deep snow to hoist their jigsaw hearts on their driveway oak tree along Highway 16 in Houston County. Not this year: The afternoon was forecast to peak in the mid-40s.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. House voted 214-213 to impeach President Biden’s Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. The same motion failed a week earlier. Next the U.S. Senate will decide whether to conduct a trial. Here is how the Minnesota and Wisconsin delegations voted:

To impeach Mayorkas

> Tom Emmer, R-Mn6 (north suburbs).

> Brad Finstad, R-Mn1 (south).

> Michelle Fischbach, R-Mn7 (rural west).

> Pete Stauber, R-Mn 8 (Iron Range).

—

> Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wi5 (Clyman).

> Glen Grothman, R-Wi6 (Campbellsport).

> Bryan Steil, R-Wi1 (Janesville).

> Tom Tiffany, R-Wi7 (Hazelburst).

> Derrick Van Orden, R-Wi3 (Prairie du Chien

Against

> Angie Craig, D-Mn2 (south suburbs).

> Betty McCollum, D-Mn4 (St. Paul).

> Ilhan Omar, D-Mn5 (Minneapolis).

> Dean Phillips, D-Mn3 (west suburbs).

—

> Mike Gallagher, R-Wi8 (Green Bay).

> Gwen Moore, D-Wi4 (Milwaukee).

> Mark Pocan, D-Wi2 (Madison)

Earlier: How they voted: On Homeland impeachment

LEWISTON, Minn. – A rural man, Joshua Albert Pridgeon, 34, was arrested by deputies investigating a domestic abuse complaint. A woman reported being grabbed by an arm and pushed down, her head striking a kitchen shelf. The arrest was in the 21000 block of County Road 25 about 7:35 p.m.

Pridgeon. Because of prior conviction, the charge was elevated to a gross misdemeanor.

LEWISTON, Minn. – Deputies arrested a Kellogg man after a homeowner in the Arches neighborhood reported a man had knocked at their door and claimed to have been robbed. They didn’t let him in. This was after dark, about 6:50 p.m. Shortly thereafter deputies found Mason Sean Maloney, 23, of Kellogg, wandering down County Road 120, which leads to Farmers Park. He kept saying he had been robbed and was being chased or was chasing someone. It appeared, deputies said, that he was tweaking on a stimulant. In a pat-down, deputies said they found 25 fentanyl pills and $4,700 cash. He was arrested. Deputies also found a foilie – a makeshift in foil wrapper sometimes used to pop illicit pills or inhale powders. Deputies could only surmise  what Malneh as doing in the Arches. A few hours earlier, another man had been arrested in the same area, also on foot and with fentanyl.

Earlier: Cops struggle to force drugs out of man’s throat

Maloney. Booked for drugs.

ST. PAUL, Minn. –Because February has been so unseasonably warm, many trails operated by the state Natural Resources Department are being closed temporarily. The mush makes the backwoods trails vulnerable to damage, the agency said — and also vulnerable to people becoming mired, stuck and stranded. Affected are roads and motorized trails in state forests, state parks, recreation areas, and wildlife management areas. What’s closed? Check online. The list being reviewed with revisions posted Thursdays.

WINONA, Minn. – A somewhat acrobatic burglar dropped through a rooftop access panel into the old Schuler Candy factory on the West End and got away – apparently with nothing. A manager for Midwest Co-Pack, the current occupant, notified police about 4 p.m. that a cabinet had been ransacked during the night but with nothing missing. A later check of surveillance video showed a masked man on the roof – apparently up there either by climbing a ladder that he brought along or by leaping from the roof of a neighboring garage. Police actually had responded to an alarm at the building, at 1000 West Fifth Street between 9:30 and 10 the night before, but neither the manager nor police found anything amiss. The alarm was reset. Not until the afternoon was surveillance video reviewed. The tape showed a masked man dropping through the ceiling. He fled out the front door when the alarm sounded. The video showed a man in a light color T-shirt, trousers and shoes. Although masked, his eyes and mouth and also his arms led police to conclude he was Caucasian.

Mystery on West Fifth Street. What was burglar after? Cabinet jimmied open but nothing missing. Image: Steve Lunde

Midwest Co-Pack profile

Midwest Co-Pack, owned by Minneapolis entrepreneur Amy Paris, purchased the former candy factory at 1000 West fifth Street in 2017 to produce her line of Licks holistic vitamin gummies for pet dogs and cats. Midwest Co-Pack does contract work  a certified food manufacturer, processor and  packager. The plant utilizes equipment that once produced Schuler gummies for people.

Candied past

Candy has a long history in Winona, mostly for Schuler chocolates and its nationally marketed Cherry Humps before its fruity gummies came into fashion. Winona candy-making dates to 1894 when Abraham Ramer and E.F. Grade opened Winona’s candy-making plant at 62 East Second Street. In 1907 three brothers, Charles, Frank and George Schuler, bought the company and ran it 65 years. They built the West Fifth Street factory in 1941.

Ownership and name changes

In later years the plant went through several ownerships. The name became Brock, then Brach’s, then Ferrara. Farrara closed the plant in 2017 and moved production to a more efficient facility in Illinois. It was then that Amy Paris bought the plant and created Midwest Co-Pack. Many of the 120 fulltime and 80 seasonal employees were kept on to manufacture her line of gummy pet vitamins. The plant also puts out 20,00 pounds a day of finished products under contract for companies with other brand names.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona woman told police that she was told by a telephone caller to come with $1,900 immediately or risk being arrested on an outstanding warrant. The caller claimed to be with the police. The woman, unsettled, said she went out and bought the gift cards but decided to drop by the police station on her way home to ask if the call was legit. Police said no. They tried calling the number that the woman had been told to call with the gift card numbers. No one answered. She went home knowing a bit more about telephone scams.

Cautionary note

Jay Rasmussen, deputy police chief, said that police agencies never – ever, ever — make phone calls for cash. Overdue payments are handled by mail or hand-delivered paperwork.

WINONA, Minn. – A woman who lives behind Sugar Loaf was ticketed for free-ranging chickens after a neighbor complained twice to police. Michelle Renee Green, 41, of Winona, was first cited at 8 a.m. for chickens outside their coop the previous Saturday. Six hours later the neighbor rang police a second time: The chickens were loose again. Police returned to Green’s place on Brookview Drive along Highway 43 and wrote her up again.

LEWISTON, Minn. – A Minnesota City man apparently out of his mind on drugs was found walking down the middle of U.S. Highway 14 near the Arches entrance to Farmers Park. A state trooper, responding to a call about 9:10 a.m., stopped the man, who first refused to give his name, then, in cuffs after a sheriff’s deputy also had arrived, took off running. The trooper caught the man who by then as he was ingesting a plastic baggie believed to be holding fentynal. This is what happened next, according to the officers’ report: The trooper and deputy tried to pry the baggie out of the man’s mouth, then officers made an emergency call for an ambulance. The man was taken 18 miles to the Winona hospital, where his stomach was pumped. How many pills were ingested was impossible to determine because they were being chewed and gulped, and what was coughed up was dissolving in spit. The man was identified as William Busby Chapman Jr., 22. Deputies surmised that Chapman, on foot, had come from somewhere in the Arches, an enclave of a dozen houses. During the stop, after Chapman was cuffed, the trooper left the deputy and Chapman and turned to knock at a nearby house to ask if the man had come from there. Before the trooper got to the house, Chapman had bolted. The trooper ran back to assist the deputy. It was never determined where Chapman had been. The assumption was that had been drugging somewhere in the neighborhood.

Chapman. His Minnesota City address at the Hidden Valley trailer court

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate voted 70-29 for a $95 billion in foreign defense package for Israel, Ukraine and the east Pacific, as well as for humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza, the West Bank and Ukraine. The bill next goes to the U.S. House. How the Minnesota and Wisconsin delegations voted:

For funding

> Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.

> Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.

>Tina Smith, D-Minn.

Against

> Ron Johnson, R-Wis.

Earlier: How they voted: On weapons, humanitarian aid / 2