ARCADIA Wis. — Police found an overturned vehicle on State Highway 93 with several occupants milling around in the dark, one of them injured although not seriously enough to want medical attention. The driver, however, was nowhere around, police said. Later police found Fernando Mendez Gomez, who, they said  had walked off from the accident.  He was booked for driving drunk, jumping bail, and driving without a license. He also had three outstanding warrants, police said. The accident was about 11:45 p.m. just north of Arcadia at County Road A.

Basketball (men): Winona State 62, Augustana 58

Basketball (men): Bethel 77, Saint Mary’s 65

Basketball (men): Wisconsin Lutheran 84, UW-LaCrosse 72

Basketball (women): Winona State 53, Augustana 44

Basketball (women): Bethel 86, Saint Mary’s 49

Basketball (women): UW-LaCrosse 95, Concordia of Illinois 66

Basketball (boys): Osseo-Fairchild Thunder 68, Mondovi Buffalos 31

Basketball (boys): Marshfield Tigers 56, LaCrosse Central RiverHawks 45

ROCHESTER, Minn. – An automobile in the Apache Mall parking lot caught fire. A fire crew put out the fire with a handheld water extinguisher before it spread to other vehicles. This was about 4:40 p.m.

RED WING, Minn. – A 19-year-old woman originally from Cannon Falls was reported missing and may be “in immediate danger,” Sheriff Marty Kelly of Goodhue County said.  Lauryn Tchida was last seen in St. Paul on November 26. She was  getting into a black SUV outside the Booth Brown youth shelter on the 1400 block of Como Avenue. Sheriff Kelly said she has not been in contact with anyone in her family. Her  phone has not been active and she has not checked into any of her social media accounts. Her family reported finding  found her purse, which increases their worry as it is unlike her to be without her belongings. Tshida  attended Cannon Falls High School.

Tchida. Fair skinned, 5-foot-4, 150 pounds, medium build, blonde hair, blue eyes. Multiple scars on arms and legs.

UTICA, Minn. – A deputy found an unresponsive driver at the wheel, parked in the County Road 18 entrance onto U.S Highway14 about 1 a.m. Once the driver was rousted, the deputy decided he was drunk. The evidence: Slurred speech, bloodshot and watery eyes, and alcohol odors oozing from his person. Christopher Thomas Florek, 28, who had a rural St. Charles address, was taken 20 miles to the Winona County jail. The charge was an open pottle in the car. A possible charge of driving under the influence also was expected as soon as a bodily fluid sample comes back from the state crime lab.

Basketball (men): Winona State 99, Wayne State of Nebraska 83 (overtime)

Basketball (women): Winona State 61, Wayne State of Nebraska 43

Hockey (men): Saint Mary’s 2, Dubuque 2

MINNEAPOLIS – A man suspected of stabbing a grocery clerk fatally with a broken-off golf club was arrested after a six-hour stand-off at his 16th floor apartment across the street. Arrested was Taylor Schulz, 44. He was booked for second-degree murder. In the assault, grocery clerk Robert Skafte was beaten with a golf club at the check-out counter and then impaled through his torso with the splintered club. Police tracked Schulz to his apartment. After six hours of negotiations, he surrendered. Court documents show Schulz has a history mental issues. He was committed for mental illness treatment in in Anoka County in 2021. Currently he was facing eviction from his Oak Grove apartment  unit.  He was already the subject of a person-in-crisis welfare check after he called 911 “to speak to the FBI” but refused to give further information.”

Earlier: Golf-club stabbing: Neighborhood grocery clerk dies

Schulz. Booked for murder after grisly golf-club attack on grocery clerk.

Performance art. Artist Billy X Curmano, known for his eclectic often unpredictable works, flashed this personal message eight times per minute on busy Mankato Avenue across from the Winona  hospital. The tree-planting tribute will be in lights on a 21-foot by 10-foot Lamar electronic billboard through Sunday. Image: Steve Lunde

ST. CHARLES, Minn. – A Utica driver suffered critical injuries when his pickup went into a ditch on U.S. Highway 14 at the County 113 farm road crossing east of St. Charles. Cecil Allen Hulshizer, 75, was taken 29 miles to a Rochester hospital. Whether he would survive was in question, deputies said. The accident was about 2:50 p.m. Hulshhizer was headed east, toward Utica, when the vehicle, a 2001 Ford Ranger, left the right-of-way and rolled on its side. Airbags deployed, but Hulshizer was not belted, deputies said. Pavement was dry.

MINNEAPOLIS — A 66-year-old clerk at a small Loring Park grocery store died after being stabbed through his abdomen with a broken-off golf club at the checkout counter. Robert Skafte was in a pool of blood but stll upright on one knee when a neighbor found him. “Robert was still conscious and talking,” Tony Gutoski told a Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter. Gutoski quoted Skafte that a man had been in the store earlier and “acting crazy” and  came back and attacked. Skafte said he kept fighting but didn’t know what happened. Those were his last words. He lost consciousness as an ambulance crew carried him out. He died at a hospital. This was about 1 p.m. Police said the assailant fled. The broken-off head of the golf club was on the floor behind the counter, Gutoski said. Police called the attack grotesque.

Oak Park Grocery. Quiet and tidy step-down shop. Catered to neighborhood shoppers in the Loring Park apartment area near downtown.

RUSHMORE, Minn. – A Dover man, Emiliano Kosnopfal, 21, was injured fatally after losing control and rolling into the median on ice and snow-covered Interstate 90 in far southwest Minnesota. Kosnopfal died at the Worthington hospital 12 miles away. The accident was about 6:50 a.m. The Minnesota State Patrol said Kosnopfal was driving west in a 2015 Lincoln MKC. He was not wearing a seatbelt, the Patrol said. He was alone in the vehicle.

Headliners this year: Tenille Townes, Breland

WINONA, Minn. – The Canadian Pacific railroad’s annual holiday train will roll clickety-clack into Winona for a trackside concert at the old Milwaukee Road depot on Saturday at 3:45 p.m.  – a revised date and time  since the original plan announced in October. Then onto Wabasha. Performing from the boxcar stage will be Canadian country singer Tenille Townes. With her will be the deep, gruff baritone Breland, who goes by the single name.  Another change: Although “Canadian Pacific” is prominent as always in the train’s electric decorations,  the railroad’s new name  “SPKC” has been squeezed into the display to reflect the recent acquisition of the Kansas City Southern rairoad and a through route to the Gulf Coast.  In reality, there now are two holiday trains with different itineraries s and schedules through the new 19,000-mile CPKC system.

Earlier: Toot, toot: CP Holiday Train back on rails

Depot concert. Winona among Wisconsin and Minnesota stops Yes, Santa promised to be aboard.

WINONA, Minn. – A sister of Adam Fravel said she believes he has been framed for the murder of his girlfriend Madelline Kingsbury. Her brother is innocent, Theresa Sis said in a three-part KTTC documentary. Sis pointed to a man whom Maddi had been seeing.  “There is definitely more to the story there with Spencer Sullivan being much more involved with Maddi,” she said. Investigators have cleared Sullivan. But Sis is unconvinced. “There is a lot of red flags in the situation,” she said. “I can’t get anybody to be serious about it.” Sis offered no evidence to support her belief in her brother as innocent except a loving experience growing up. The Sis is included in the 38-minute documentary, although her word “frame” appears only in some versions of the documentary as edited for delivery on KTTC.com and other station platforms. On its on-air Channel 10, KTTC had reported the  Maddi story only 1-1/2-minute segments, its format maximum for newscasts, over the course of he case. KTTC reporter Olivia Prondzinski , who followed the case, said she decided story  merited  a longer journalistic  examination.

Earlier: Unsealed court documents detail Maddi abuse

Earlier: Fravel murder trial: Maddi’s boyfriend on court list

ST. CHARLES, Minn. – A Rochester driver was injured when his car left Interstate 90 between the ramps to St. Charles and Lewiston. Michael Jeffry Lehner, 31, was taken 27 miles to a Rochester hospital with injuries that a St. Charles ambulance crew described as non-life threatening. This was about 4:50 p.m. Lehner was westbound toward Rochester in a 2015 Mazda 3. Pavement was dry.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Mower County man was arrested for the stabbing of a 15-year-old boy with a pocket knife, then released pending further investigation. The teenager was treated at a Rochester hospital. The wounds were described a superficial. Based mostly on a witness account, this is what police believed happened: Benjamin Pater, 23, who disliked the teenager, drove from Waltham, 30 miles southwest of Rochester, to the boy’s Rochester address and called him out for a fight. A fight indeed ensued. Who threw the first punch was unclear, but somebody produced a pocket knife. The teen took a slash to his neck. This was about 10:15 p.m. Most of the details, police said, were from a juvenile female dating the victim.