STEWARTVILLE, Minn. – Stewartville teachers voted to accept a contract with a 4% pay increase retroactive to July and 3% next year. In addition are longevity increases from $500 to $1,250 – the first seniority bonuses in 40 years. The School District is increasing insurance contributions from $890 a month to $925 for singles and $1,200 to $1,500 a month for families.

MINNEAPOLIS – The condition of a Disney figure skater after a horrific fall during a Target Center performance has improved. Attendants at Hennepin Medical Center described Anastasia Olson, 31, still in critical condition but stabilized. She collapsed being carried aloft in a pair-routine of “Beauty and the Beast.”

Earlier: Performance skater freezes, falls in aerial routine

Olson. Skating since age 6.  From Novi in southeast Michigan. An 11-time competitor in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, a national junior medalist. Also an international competitor for Team USA.

WABASHA, Minn. – A Wisconsin driver was injured in a collision on the Pembroke Avenue entrance into Wabasha from U.S. Highway 61. Kia Vue, 31, of Eau Claire, was taken to the Wabasha hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The accident was about 10:30 a.m. at the Hiawatha Drive intersection. Vue was eastbound in a 2013 Toyota Camry. The other driver, Jarret Richard Thomas, 26, of Lake City, was unhurt. He was in a 2014 Dodge Journey.

CRESCO, Iowa – An Iowa motorcyclist arrested near Ostrander in southeast Minnesota after a 90-minute police chase at 95 mph at times has been sentenced to five year in prison. John Paul Laganiere, 28, of Lime Springs, also was fined $1,000. He had a pleaded guilty. The chase, in December, began near Lime Springs when an officer recognized Laganiere as wanted on several warrants. The officer also was aware that Laganiere’s bike hadn’t been registered since 2007. In the end three law enforcement agencies from Iowa and one from Minnesota joined the chase.

Langaniere. Legal problems had been stacking up.

MASON CITY, Iowa – A traveling carnival worker was sentenced to two days in jail and fined $860 for an assault at the Howard County Fair in Cresco in June. Terry Dale Harley Jr., 43 of Fort Worth, Texas, also was placed on supervised probation. Harley had pleaded guilty to pepper-spraying a carny supervisor. They spray also disabled a second person, who went to a hospital. Earlier Harley was fined $600 for approaching a man sitting on a bench, this on the midway circuit at the North Iowa State Fair in Mason City, also in June, and beating him in the face. The victim was a former employee whom Harley had fired.

Earlier: Not a good time for all at two Iowa fairs

WINONA, Minn.  – Police traced an online Snapchat threat over the weekend about the Winona Middle School to an 11-year-old old boy. The. boy had threatened to take a hammer and a knife to school. Suddenly the message was in wide circulation among middle-schoolers. When police confronted the boy, he explained that he was frustrated over a dispute with a classmate. The boy apologized. Classes began as scheduled on Monday.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona High School girl reportedly slapped a 15-year-old boy in the face, then left the school and headed toward Lake Winona and threatened to jump in and kill herself. Police were called. The girl, 16, was talked out of suicide. She was turned over to her mother, who by then had been called to the school. This was about 2 p.m. The boy who was slapped wasn’t injured, police said.

LACRESCENT, Minn. – Authorities widened their search for the driver of a speeding truck who led police on three U-turn loops before getting away across the Wisconsin state line into LaCrosse. The truck was found later parked outside a LaCrosse address where it was thought the man lived, but he wasn’t around. Being sought was a man described as 20 years old from LaCrosse. The chase began about 9:50 p.m. on Interstate 90 at Dresbach. The pursuing Winona County deputy clocked the driver at 98 mph. The deputy gave this account: The driver turned off I-90 down Highway 61 through LaCrescent. He then U-turned back to LaCrescent and turned onto the Highway 16 dike toward the Mississippi River bridge into LaCrosse. Then he U-turned again, passing the Winona deputy head on. Then he U-turned  a third to to head again for LaCrosse; Meanwhile, a man identifying himself as the driver’s father called authorities from Red Wing this to report tyat his son had taken a truck and was in a mental crisis.

Truth be told. Finally. The secretly choreographed and rehearsed show rode on skates made by Riedell Shoe Company.

Riedell heritage harkens to Red Wing workboots

WINONA, Minn. – Geoscientist Megan Ballard, an expert in seagrass, will speak at Winona State University on Monday about threatened seagrasses. Her research has found seagrass meadows among the most endangered habitats on Earth, which is significant because they are “carbon sinks” that filter human-made contaminants. Time: 4 p.m., Science Lab 120, Winona State.

Ballard. From Applied Research Laboratories at University of Texas at Austin.

Basketball (men): Winona State 73, Wayne State of Nebraska 65

Basketball (women): Winona State 70, Wayne State of Nebraska 59

Basketball (boys): Caledonia Warriors 96, Onalaska Hilltoppers 84

Basketball (boys): LaCrosse Aquinas Blugolds 71, Poynette Pumas 35

Basketball (boys): Onalaska Luther Knights 71, Cashton Eagles 56

Basketball (girls): Cashton Eagles 46, Onalaska Luther Knights 26

Hockey (boys): LaCrescent-Hokah Lancers 4, Wausau West Warriors 1

ELBA, Minn.  – A St. Charles driver was taken to jail for impaired driving near the County Road 26 intersection to Crystal Springs. Thomas More O’Hara, 48, declined an on-site breath test, so his blood was drawn at the jailhouse. Formal charges were delayed until results come back from the state crime lab.

FARIBAULT Minn. – Two pickup tucks collided head-on on a residential street and injured five teenagers. Two of teens were air-lifted 60 miles in critical condition to a Twin Cities hospital. The collision was about. 1:40 p.m. in a 30-mph zone in the 1100 block of Ninth Avenue Southwest near Jefferson school. Faribault police summoned the State Patrol to reconstruct what happened, Involved were a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado and a 2002 Ford F150. Alcohol was not a factor, police said. The streets were  dry.

In the Silverado:

> Beau William Velishek, 18, the driver, who needed to be cut of the wreckage. Flown to North Hennepin Medical Center in Robbinsdale. With serious injuries.

Hockey season. Three of the injured teenagers were Faribault High School hockey players. The school cancelled a Saturday night conference gane with Winona. Joel Olson,  principal, said that the  remaining games in the season also may be cancelled.

Pre-season. Team portrait from fall.

> Genevieve Rose Donahue, 17. Also flown to North Hennepin Medical Center. Serious injuries

> Rideway Joe Wasilowski, 15. Minor injuries.

> Ajay Michael Still, 15. To the Faribault hospital. Serious injuries.

In the F150:

> Riley Michael Velishek, 17, the driver. Minor injuries.

STOCKTON, Minn. – Deputies injected two doses of the Narcan drug antidote to revive a man who had overdosed at a Stockton apartment. The man declined medical treatment after regaining consciousness, deputies said. Authorities have been called before to rescue the man from overdosing, records show.

MINNEAPOLIS – A Disney ice skater portraying Belle in “Beauty and the Beast” froze during a aerial routine, apparently in a seizure, and fell to the ice. Anastasia Olson, 31, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. Olson was in a lift routine, balanced on the raised arms of the skater playing the Beast. This was about 40 minutes into an 11 a.m. show. Olson was with the traveling cast of the show. Although interrupted, the show resumed with a back-up skater playing Belle.