Football (men):  North Central of Illinois 55, UW-LaCrosse 42

Basketball (men): Calvin 84, UW-LaCrosse 71

Basketball (men): St. Olaf 94, Saint Mary’s 84

Basketball (men): Winona State 81, Sioux Falls 66

Basketball (women): Sioux Falls 53, Winona State 49

Basketball (women): St. Olaf 74, Saint Mary’s 64

Hockey (men): Saint Mary’s 4, Gustavus Adolphus 4

Hockey (women): Gustavus Adolphus 3, Saint Mary’s 0

Basketball (boys): DeSoto Pirates 73, Blair-Taylor Wildcats 65

Basketball (boys):  Fall Creek Crickets 53, Augusta Beavers 18

Basketball (girls): Fall Creek Crickets 64, Mondovi Buffaloes 28

Basketball (girls): Durand-Arkansaw Panthers 49, Hammond St. Croix Central Panthers 29

Basketball (girls): Osseo-Fairchild Thunder 74, Glenwood City Hilltoppers 34

MINNEOPA, Minn.  – A Twin Cities man hiking with his family in Minneopa State Park was swept off his feet and buried in a landslide. Jack Robert Loso, 19, of Robbinsdale, was dead when rescuers reached him. The accident, about 5 p.m., was at the falls area of the historic park, which is a short ways west Mankato.

WINONA, Minn. – A police officer on patrol thought he recognized Willie Terrell Chambers, 31, as wanted for a probation violation on a drug conviction. The officer sopped the guy, this in the 100 block of High Forest Street. The guy denied being Willie Chambers, then bolted to a nearby house.  A second officer grabbed the man as he reached the front door. The man gripped the screen door so firmly that the glass popped out. A second office pulled him off and took him to ground. Even then he kept his hands under his body to avoid being cuffed. Eventually, though, he was cuffed and taken ti jail.. And, yes, the guy was indeed Willie Chambers. He was jailed for a court appearance on delinquency on his probation for drugs. The arrest was about 4:40 p.m.

Chambers. He fled police but not quite fast enough.

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was elected chair of the Democratic Governors Association. Walz noted that Democrats have “an exciting map of 11 governor’s races next year.” He identified two major roles: Keeping a Democrat in the North Carolina governor’s seat and flipping critical states, such as New Hampshire. Walz was elected to his post by his 23 fellow Democratic governors at the association’s annual meeting in Phoenix. He said: “In Minnesota, we’ve shown the country that when Democratic governors win, we deliver real results that directly benefit working families — like establishing free school meals, expanding paid leave, and standing up to protect reproductive rights and our democracy”

Walz. New role boosts his national profile.

WINONA, Minn. – Firefighters ventilated an East Side house after an oven fire. The homeowner said she had two pans of potatoes, onions and garlic in the oven. When she opened the oven to check on the food, flames burst out, she said. She closed the door, shut the oven off, and called 911. Firefighters tentatively blamed a viscous liquid on the bottom of the oven. Nobody was injured, but the house, in the 500 block of East Wabasha Street, was filled with a haze. The menu for dinner was changed. The fire was about 1:40 p.m.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Army Guard soldiers are being deployed again to the Middle East. A contingent of 550 soldiers from the 34th Infantry Division — the Red Bulls, as they’re known — will leave in February for pre-deployment preparation at Fort Cavazos in the Texas Hill Country, then to Kuwait for 10 months. It’s not the first time that the Red Bulls will have had Mid-East sand on their boots. Major General Shawn Manke, commander of the Minnesota Guard, said it will be the fourth Middle East duty for 10% of the 550Guard members, the third for 16 %, and the second for 28%. For four this will be their sixth Middle East deployment.

34th Infantry profile

The 34th Infantry Division has headquarters in the north Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills. The Division provides training and readiness oversight for nine National Guard brigades with 27,000 soldiers across Minnesota and 29 other states.

WINONA, Minn. – A Wisconsin driver was taken to jail for a blood-alcohol testing after a traffic stop for weaving in and out of her lane near Main and Mark streets. Keira Ann Anuptel, 18, of Sherwood, looked and smelled drunk, had poor balance, and failed field spbriety tests officers said. This was abut 1:20 a.m. Police held off any charge until her blood tests can be processed by a state lab.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona driver who admitted to a beer before driving, Ryan Dale Gavin, 40, was issued a drunken-driving citation. To officers it appeared he had downedmore than one beer. He had bloodshot and watery eyes and was odorous with alcohol, officers said. Gavin had been stopped about 10:55 p.m. at Sanborn and Hamilton streets because his rear auto plate was bent and was illegible.

Basketball (men): Southwest Minnesota State 78, Winona Stare 65

Basketball (women): Winona State 75, Southwest Minnesota State 61

Hockey (men): Gustavus Adolphus 4, Saint Mary’s 3

Hockey (women): Gustavus Adolphus 3, Saint Mary’s 1

WINONA, Minn. – A one-month infant with a leg stuck between metal bars in a shopping cart at the Target retail store was freed by a firefighter rescue team. They used a Halligan bar to pry between two thin metal bars on the cart. The child’s leg slipped out. This was about 2:30 p.m. The child as unharmed.

ORONOCO, Minn.  – A Plainview driver was injured albeit not seriously in a two-vehicle accident between Plainview and Oronoco on State Highway 247. Edward Clayton Hainer,38, was taken 18 miles to a Rochester hospital. The other driver, Caleb John Klassen, 43, of Wabasha, was unhurt. Olmsted Couuty deputies said both Hainer’s 2012 Volkswagen Jetta and Klassen’s 2012 GMC Canyon were headed east toward Plainview. This was at 1:45 p.m. at the intersection with County Road 128 Northeast. Pavement was dry, deputies noted

TUCSON, Ariz. – A prison inmate, already serving a 30-year sentence, was charged with stabbing former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, also an inmate, at the U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson 1-1/2 weeks ago. Chauvin survived but only because three guards pulled his assailant off him before he bled out. Chauvin took 22 stabs. He was rushed to a hospital. At last report he was in stable condition. The attack was about 12:30 p.m. in the prison library. Charged for the attack was John Turscak, who, according to court documents, said he would have killed Chauvin had guards not intervened quickly and begun life-saving measures. Turscak, 52, was charged with:

> Assault with intent to commit murder.

> Assault with a dangerous weapon.

> Assault resulting in serious bodily injury.

The charges can be punished by 20 years in prison. Turscak had been scheduled for release from his current 30-year sentence in 2026. Meanwhile, he was moved from the main Tucson federal prison to an adjacent penitentiary facility.

Turscak. Admits his goal, according to prosecutors, was to kill Chauvin. The weapon: A hand-made stiletto.

Black Friday symbolism

According to the criminal complaint, Turscak admitted to plotting the attack on Chauvin for about a month and chose Black Friday, the day Thanksgiving. Turscak pointed out he saw a symbolic connection between Black Friday and the Black Lives Matter movement, which grew rapidly after Chauvin, who is white, choked George Floyd, black man, to death in Minneapolis in 2020. Turscak noted too that the Mexican Mafia uses a black hand as a symbol. Turscak, who is white, was is prison for crimes associated with the Mexican Mafia, an umbrella organization for Hispanic gangs in southern California.

Turscak profile

Turscak led a faction of the Mexican Mafia in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, He went by the nickname “Stranger.”  He became an FBI informant in 1997, providing information about the gang and recordings conversations with other Mexican Mafia people. The investigation led to 40 indictments, but the FBI and Turscak had a falling out when ui was learned that he was still dealing drugs, extorting money and authorizing assaults. According to court documents. Turscak plotted attacks on rival gang members and was accused of attempting to kill a leader of a rival Mexican Mafia faction while also being targeted himself. In 2001 Turscak pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiring to kill a gang rival. He was bitter at being prosecuted, saying he expected leniency for cooperating with the FBI. Said Turscak at the time: “I didn’t commit those crimes for kicks. I did them because I had to if I wanted to stay alive. I told that to the FBI agents and they just said, ‘Do what you have to do.”‘

Earlier: Ellison: Derek Chauvin expected to survive

STEWARTVILE, Minn. – A St. Charles woman was hospitalized after a two-car accident north of Stewartville near the Interstate. 90 junction. Kristine Kay Engstrand, 53, was taken 14 miles to a Rochester hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Engstrad was traveling south on U.S. Hghway 63 into Stewartville. The other vehicle, driven by Joan Marie Deg, 81, of Stewartville, was going north and making a left turn onto Schuman Drive. Deg was unhurt.  This was about 10:35 a.m. Engstrand was in a 2021 Subaru Outback, Deg in a 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix

On thin ice. The resident geese at Lake Winona are keeping their shanks, webbing and toes dry on the fragile first ice floes of winter. Image: Steve Lunde

WINONA, Minn. – Among residential property sales logged by Bob Bambenek, county recorder, in November:

> 112 Debi Lei Drive: Miller to Dowiasch, $385,000.

> 22224 East Burns Valley Road: Leewen to Gustafson, $344,000.

> 326 Wabasha Street: Callahan Trust to Ruff, $324,000.

> 2187 Clinton Drive: Karr to Brennan, $315,000.

> 1405 Brookview Drive: Nelson Estate to Schink, $312.000.

Earlier: Winona home sales in October 2023

WINONA, Minn. – Among residential property sales outside Winona logged by Bob Bambenek, county recorder, in November:

> Dakota: 444104 County Road 12, Rudd to Redman/Lager, $439,000.

> LaCrescent: 33189 Lanes Valley Road, Gunderson to Nelson/Schlenvogt, $487,000.

> Minnesota City: 445 Corcoran Drive, Becker to Boelter, $490,000.

> St. Charles: 10818 Keller Drive, Wagaman to Schloegel, $550,000.

> St. Charles: 13045 Border Line Drive, Koenig to Welch, $480,000

> St. Charles: 1314 Whispering Hills Drive, Skadsem to Burns, 435,000.

> St. Charles: 521 Trout Avenue, Schloegel to Ottman, $320,000.

Earlier: Winona County home sales in October 2023

WINONA, Minn. – Among commercial property sales in Winona County logged by Bob Bambenek, county recorder, in November:

> Stockton: 8390 West Main Street (gas station), Yang/Xion g to Lee, $380,000.

> Winona: 1222 West Serve Drive (auto sales), B&J Partnership to Puetz Properties, $5.5 million.

> Winona: 5731 Industrial Park Road (light manufacturing), BCS Automotive Interface Solutions to IPR Properties, $2.4 million.

Winona: 257 West Third Street (Kensington Building), Jacobson to Kensington, $3.7 million.

Earlier: Winona County commercial property since October 2023