JACKSONBURG, Ind. – Coroners using new DNA technology established that a body found by hunters off Interstate 70 in eastern Indiana in 1982 was a Wisconsin woman who disappeared 40 years ago. The woman, Connie Lorraine Christensen, was 20 years old when she disappeared. The last she had been seen was in April1982 in Nashville, Tennessee, 340 miles away. The body was found in the fork of a tree along Martindale Creek near Jacksonburg. She was shot in the head. She was wearing high-heel wood-sole clogs and had a gold ring with an opal and two diamonds. Coroners believe she was three or four months pregnant. When found, it was believed that she had been dead eight months.

Christensen. From the Wisconsin town of Oregon, population 3,800 at the time, south of Madison. Had left her 1-year-old daughter with relatives. When she didn’t return home as planned, the family reported her missing.

WYATTVILLE, Minn. – A St. Charles-based tow truck caught fire while struggling to pull a truck and semi-trailer back onto Highway 43 south of Interstate 90 just short of the Fillmore County line. There were no juries. Rushford firefighters said the tow truck was engulfed in flames when they arrived. This was about 9:45 a.m. The tow truck was owned by Bill’s Towing out of St. Charles.

WINONA, Minn. – Police began investigating what appeared to be a bullet hole in a basement window at a business in the 100 block of Walnut Street near downtown. The hole, small and round, was along a sidewalk. The hole was discovered about 7:45 a.m. No bullet was found, police said.

LAKE CITY, Minn. – A Wisconsin driver was hurt when she hit a guardrail near Lake City. Elle Ann Engel, 18, of Fountain City, was taken to the Lake City hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The accident was on U.S.  Highway 61 about 7:20 a.m. Engel was alone in the vehicle, a 2012 Chevrolet Malibu. The accident was near the 261st Avenue junction. She was driving south.

WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a Winona man whose girlfriend called 911 and accused him of strong-arming her and breaking an arm and then ripping away two cell phones as she attempted to call police. She said she fled to a son’s bedroom and used his phone to get through finally to a 911 dispatcher. Arrested was Denero Sheldon Bradford, 37. The incident was about 6:50 a.m. at an apartment in the 1700 block of Kraemer Drive on the Far West End. Police said Bradford denied being violent and said he didn’t take away any cell phone. Several children in the apartment slept through the disturbance, police said. The woman said she had been awakened by Bradford and manhandled. She said he was drunk. Police tested him for blood-alcohol and found 0.17% — twice the legal definition of drunkenness. He didn’t resist arrest, police said.

Bradford. Booked on two counts of  domestic violence and also interfering with emergency communications.

Basketball (men): Concordia of St. Paul 71, Saint Mary’s 57

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TUCSON, Ariz. – Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was wheeled back to prison custody for further recovery from 22 stab wounds two weeks ago. After the attac, on November 24, Chauvin was sent a Tucson hospital in desperate ouch-and-go  condition. A fellow inmate has been charged in the attack. Chauvin, who is white, is reviled by much of the prison population for the suffocation death  of a black man, George Floyd, in 2020

Earlier: Chauvin’s prison assailant charged: Attempted murder

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona driver who was stopped for speeding, 41 mph in a 30 zone, ended up at jail and accused also of drunken driving. Collyn Jon Kruse, 19, had been stopped about 1:45 a.m. at Sanborn and Chatfield streets. He admitted to drinking, police said. He looked drunk with bloodshot and watery eyes smelled heavily of alcohol, police said.

Basketball (men):  UW-LaCrosse 94, Aurora 77

WINONA, Minn. – The conductor on the Minneapolis-bound Amtrak passenger train called ahead that a drunk passenger would be thrown off at the Winona stop. Police arrived at the depot to escort the woman from the train. This was about 9:10 p.m. It was apparent, police said, that the woman was unable to care for herself. The woman, age 64, from Minneapolis, was taken to the hospital for detoxification evaluation.

WINONA, Minn. — A Dakota man spent the weekend in jail, again in a charge of habitual huffing of exhilarants from condensed air in dust-off products. The latest huffing arrest for Keith Schroeder, 31, was Thursday at the Menards super-hardware store on the Far East End. Despite a no-trespass order, Schroeder walked into Menards, apparently took dust-off cans from a shelf, and went to a restroom for secluded huffing. Store detectives called police, who found Schroeder in a stall with seven aerosol cans, five already empty. He was booked for trespassing and habitual substance abuse. He had been arrested on the same charges the night before at Target. The incidents had the same modus operandi, although at Target, he admitted, he huffed too long and found himself locked inside the restroom when the store closed at 10 p.m. Undeterred at being stranded alone on the store, he left the restroom, fumbled around the store in the dark. found the aisle with dust-off products, grabbed a few more cans, and returned to the restroom. Motion detectors sensed all thus  and sent off an alarm. When Schroeder eventually exited the store, a burglar alarm sounded. Police were waiting. The Menards arrest the next day capped a series of huffing incidents over a soan of three days, although not all appear in court documents against Schroeder.  He does, however, have six earlier huffing convictions. All were at big-box stores that sell dust-off products and have public restrooms with stalls with doors that latch.

Earlier: Serial huffer nabbed sixth time, called habitual violator

WINONA, Minn. – A Shakopee driver, Brody William Luce, 23, was booked for drunken driving after a speeding stop on Highway 61. His blood-alcohol level tested at 0.09% on an intoxilyzer at the jail – roughly 12% higher than the state definition of impairment. In the traffic stop, about 2:30 a.m., officers said Luve’s eyes were bloodshot, his speech slurred, and his balance unsteady. He also failed field sobriety tests.