Car rolls off rural road; driver says he’s OK
STOCKTON, Minn. – A driver escaped serious injury when his car rolled off an embankment on marginally maintained Gilmore Ridge Road coming down to Stockton Creek. Deputies said the driver had multiple face cuts but otherwise appeared unhurt. He declined medical care, deputies said..
Bail at $750,000 in Hixton break-in, stabbing
BLACK RIVR FALLS, Wis. – Bail was set at $750,000 for a Hixton man accused of attempted murder in a house break-in in Hixton. Anthony Sylvester IV, 30, had been the subject of an extensive manhunt that focused on all western Wisconsin. He was caught however, only a few miles away while visiting contacts in in Taylor. He was arrested without resistance. Judge Daniel Diehn set the bail at an arraignment hearing. The judge said the arraignment would be continued later to give county prosecutor Sherry Haley more time to consider additional charges.
Phillips launches White House campaign
New Hampshire event. With his campaign bus as backdrop, Minnesotan Dean Phillips lays out why he’s rung for president. After signing candidacy documents at the state Capitol,] to be on New hampshire’s March primary ballot, Phillips was quickly on the campaign trail.
Why a Democrat opposing Biden? ”I’m younger”
CONCORD, N.H. – Minnesota Democrat Dean Philips, now in his fourth term in Congress, finally entered the 2024 presidential race in an event outside New Hampshire’s state Capitol. It was on the final day to qualify for the state’s March primary election. Drawing a line from one his heroes, John Kennedy, Phillips said: “It is time for the torch to be passed to a new generation of American leaders.” Phillip is 54 and has positioned himself as a more viable 2024 Democratic candidate than Joe Biden, who is 80. Biden, if re-elected, would be president until he’s 86. John Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest U.S. president in history at the time he was elected – although Theodore Roosevelt was 42 when he ascended from vice president after President William McKinley was assassinated.
No dichotomy on principles
In Congress Phillips has voted consistently for Biden policies. So why run? In a pre-recorded interview that aired on the CBS morning syelevision how, Phillips said: “I didn’t set out to enter this race. But it looks like on our current course, the Democrats will lose and Trump will be our President again. President Biden is a good man and someone I tremendously respect. I understand why other Democrats don’t want to run against him, and why we are here. This is a last-minute campaign, but desperate times call for desperate measures, and courage is an important value to me.” In Concord, addressing reporters outside his campaign bus, Phillips reiterated his choice to run is fueled by the goal of keeping former President Donald Trump out of the White House: “The man is a disaster for our country. He was four years ago. He will be again. That’s why I’m doing this.”
Biden vulnerabilities
Phillips said he would fix the economy and warned about high prices. He called the situation at the Southern Border “chaos.” Most political analysts see the economy and border as vulnerable issues for Biden.
Phillips. Heir to a family distillery fortune. Elected from MN-6, which comprises mostly upscale suburbs west of Minneapolis. First to Congress in 2018.
Button season ahead. A woman pinned a Phillips button on her shoulder to shake hands. He has plenty.
New Hampshire primary
The only other Democrat on the New Hampshire primary ballot is self-help author Marianne Williamson. Although Biden won’t be on the ballot, a write-in campaign, is possible. New Hampshire Democrats are angry at Biden for diluting their state’s influence on the national 2024 Democratic primary calendar by shuffling the sequence pf approved primaries. Biden was complicit in the change. The state, Phillips noted, had historically been “first to vet presidential candidates like me.” Meanwhile. Biden is traveling next week to Minnesota, Phillips’ home state, for an event and a fund-raiser.
Doerr’s qualifications for office look muzzy
WINONA Minn. – Legislative candidate Stephen Doerr inflated his credentials and apparently manufactured some of them in announcing for the 26-A seat in the Minnesota House from Winona. These include jacked-up claims about his education, ambiguous claims about professional accomplishments, and vast voids in his residencies that belie his implied claim to be a Winonan of long standing. The Winona Journal has reached out to Doerr for explanations. He has not responded. The exaggerations and misleading implications are surprising because these questions were not raised when Doerr ran two years ago for the same 26-A House seat. He was then the Republican-endorsed candidate and won 7,704 votes. This raises deep questions about the quality of internal GOP candidate screening. In the 2022 election, veteran District 26-A representative Gene Pelowski, a Democrat, prevailed 55% to 45%.
Residency
To be sure, in waxing on about his Winona heritage, Doerr melds in some historical reality but conveniently skips many years in Wisconsin and at scattered addresses elsewhere in the nation. In his candidacy statement he talks about also farming with a grandfather Albert. But that whether that was in Winona County or in Wisconsin isn’t clear. In fact, records show he has had many addresses over the years across the river in Wisconsin – in Blair, Dodge, Ettrick, Fountain City, Hixton, Melrose, Osseo, Trempealeau and Whitehall. In 2012 in Ettrick, as odd it nay seem, Doerr registered to vote as a Democrat. His Social Security registration originated in South Dakota. He claims too to be “a life-long farmer, with a childhood milking cows, raising hogs,” but for years he has been mostly a long-distance trucker. Over the years he has registered several farm-related businesses with the Wisconsin secretary of state. All the registrations eventually expired and were dissolved administratively in Madison. There is no record that Doerr has ever sought to register a business activity in Minnesota. He also has had addresses in Texas, Mississippi and Pennsylvania. To be sure, Doerr has a current Winona address, as well as an address for seven years, 1996-2003, in Rollingstone, which is in Winona County and in House District 26-A. Doerr currently has a Winona address with his wife Maria and eight children. He lists being a member of the Winona Civic Association (although no such organization exists). He says too he belongs to the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Parish and is a Knights of Columbus inductee. He says also he has served as a volunteer fire and rescue member but doesn’t say where.
Doerr. His candidacy announcement on October 19 was dutifully reported without even a cursory journalistic examination or due diligence on behalf of readers by Winona news media: The Daily News, the Journal, KWNO, and the Post. Most of the coverage included a professional campaign photo that Doerr provided.
College
Doerr lists college experience at Winona State but he doesn’t list his academic focus. From Saint Mary’s he says he holds a bachelor’s degree and an MAI degree. This is confusing: MAI degrees are in engineering. Saint Mary’s has never had an engineering program — although St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, offers a degree in engineering design. Which is college it? And what is the degree? Doerr’s candidacy announcement suggests nothing a like a career in engineering. Doerr also lists a degree in educational administration from University of Houston-Victoria and “graduate studies incorporating science in mathematics” at the University of Texas-San Antonio. In his bio he also says he has educational administration certification, but this never appears to have been put to use. He cites taking accounting and computer science courses, but where is unstated. He says he has helped Stockton businesses with bookkeeping and tax preparation. He does not specify his Stockton clients nor the source of any certification.
Teacher
Doerr said he is a high school math teacher who also teaches English as a second language. He is not listed, however, in current staff directories at Winona High school or Cotter, or at Alma, Arcadia, Gilmanton, Lewiston-Altura, Mondovi, St. Charles, Cochrane-Fountain City, or Galesvile-Ettrick-Trempealeau schools. There is no record that he ever held state teaching certification in Minnesota, although he applied for a license in 2017, but it was forfeited before being issued.. Doerr was, however, has been issued interim certification to teach in Wisconsin:
> Short-term substitute teaching license. For three years. Issued 2020. Expired in June. State records do not specify subject area.
> Provisional teaching license. Issued in 2021. Expires next June. Renewable only after six semesters of experience. This for mathematics in grades 6 to 12. ESL is not mentioned in state Educatin Department records. Doerr does not say where he taught.
Entrepreneur
Doerr’s candidacy statement says he “sought to bring a natural resource, silica sand, to the energy sector for Energy Independent USA!” The exclamation mark is his. He said he testified at public hearings on behalf of local farmers. This apparently was in the failed bid of entrepreneur Rick Frick to create a southeast Minnesota frac-sand extraction empire in the mid-2010s. It also could have been in Wisconsin, where fracking also has been a controversial issue. Again, Doerr claims more than he supports with particulars.
Work history
Doerr lists being an over-the-road driver with Smikrud Trucking, Renk Trucking, Lawrence Transport, and Igloo Trucking, and delivering Bay State Milling products to Chicago. He also claims jobs in general construction and mining with Wall Electric, Renk Trucking, and Brant Valley Excavting – and also internships and part-time work during college with Peerless Chain, Fastenal, Plumbers Mechanical, Hiawatha Tire, and Screen Printing and Assembly. He is silent on his levels of responsibility.
In short, Doer claims too much and substantiates too little and leaves a misleading impression of his qualifications for public office. Voters deserve better. Again, the Winona Journal invites Doer to provide fuller disclosure.
Phillips aide: X a “public sewer” — but wants back
CONCORD, N.H. – The campaign manager for Dean Phillips’ presidential campaign was plainly angry that the social media site X had blocked the Phillips campaign account. Turn the account back on, Steve Schmidt demanded. He was speaking to reporters in a thick fog outside the New Hampshire Capitol, where Phillips was scheduled to be launching his campaign. Schmidt called X a “public sewer” with lax restraints on what anybody posts. To ban a centrist Democratic presidential candidate from Minnesota makes no sense, Schmidt said. It’s an inexplicable affront to the free speech that X espouses, he said.
Verbatim
Schmidt: “The Dean Phillips Campaign would like to request the pubic sewer now known as X, formerly known as Twitter and its shambolic leader Elon Musk that that they please turn on the Twitter account or X account of a Democratic presidential candidate, given the fact supposedly ELon Musk is for free speech.”
Drizzly morning in Concord. Schmidt braves the heavy morning mist to light into X for blocking the Dean Phillips presidential campaign account. Under new owner Elon Musk, X has become chaotic and shambolic, Schmidt said.
Schmidt profile
Schmidt is a veteran politial strategist. He advised the residential campaigns of George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 and of John McCain in 2008 and of the California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2002 and 2006. In retireent from his mountain retreat in Utah, Schmidt became one of Donald Trump’s most articulate and acerbic critics He was among the first to foresee the Republican Party becoming a Trump cult that couldn’t even develop a party platform on public policy issues. Schmidt left the party and registered as a Democrat. He became a frequent political analyst on MSNBC and HBO’s “The Circus.” In 2023 he was named campaign manager for the presidential campaign of Dean Phillips, a centrist Democrat from Minnesota. Phillip was preparing to challenge President Joe Biden’s expected run for a second term. Schmidt’s analysis of the 2024 campaign ahead: Trump would win the GOP nomination and defeat Biden in the general election. He saw Phillips as a stronger Democratic candidate against Trump.
Cops seek woman for rehab center vandalism, fire
WINONA, Minn. – Police continued to attempt to locate a woman who was suspected of starting a fire out of anger Wednesday at the Family and Children’s Center on Franklin Street. The place was evacuated. No one was hurt. The woman stormed out as smoke began billowing from a central bathroom. She broke a mirror off a car parked outside and kept on going. She was last seen on foot eight blocks away on Third Street. At the Center, employees said they were familiar with the woman. So were police. Officers reported talking with her about a half hour prior to the fire. Although the woman seemed possibly under the influence of a controlled substance, the officers reported also feeling that she was able to care for herself. Also she declined assistance. In the incident itself, inside the Center, a bathroom toilet seat was ripped loose and swung to hammer gaping holes the bathroom wall in three different places. Then toilet paper was set afire.
Minnesota’s Phillips bumped off online site X: Why?
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – The powerful social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, suspended an account of Minnesota Congress member Dean Phillips overnight. This came on the eve of Phillip’s scheduled kick-off of a campaign for president. There was no explanation from X, although the site blocks accounts that violate its standards. The only recent Phillips post was a CBS television interview on his presidential aspirations. For the past year X has been owned by billionaire Elon Musk who professes an openness to just about any and all free speech but who also is quirky. After buying Twitter, Musk underscored his commitment to unfettered free speech by reinstating Donald Trump, who had been banned by Twitter’s ore-Musk management for outlandish besmirchments and serial mistruths. Phillips, from the west Minneapolis suburbs, is a centrist Democrat.
Phillips on X
The X/Twitter blackout applied only to Phillips’ presidential campaign. Still running on X were his personal account and his U.S. House account.
R.I.P.: Patricia Dahl
RUSHFORD, Minn. – Pat Dahl, of Rushford, who with her husband operated Dahl Family Farm, died at Good Shepherd Lutheran Home. She was 90. She graduated from Mabel High School and attended McMurray College in Illinois for design. She was an avid rosemaler and owned and operated Hilltop Rosemaling.
Details: Hoff Funeral Home
1933-2023
Charges: Speeding, DWI, too young to booze
WINONA Minn. – A night of drinking ended up in jail for Erin Rae Murden, 19, of Winona. She was stopped by a sheriff’s deputy for speeding t about 1:30 a.m. at Highway 61 and Huff Street. Right away the deputy saw her blood-shot eyes and couldn’t miss her hydroxyl body odor. Then she failed a series of roadside sobriety tests. At the jailhouse Murden’s blood tested as running 0.19% alcohol — triple the threshold for impairment. She was booked for speeding, driving drunk, and being too young to consume alcoholic beverages but doing it anyway.
Murden. Charged with multiple misjudgments.
R.I.P.: Carol Montgomery
LEWISTON, Minn. – Carol Jean Montgomery, of Lewiston, for 35 years a bookkeeper for Camera Art, died at age 93. She enjoyed family outings at Bass Camp Resort on the Mississippi River. She was a 1949 graduate of Plainview High School.
Details: Hoff Funeral Home
1931-2023
Somehow this guy keeps missing the memo
WINONA, Minn. – For the seventh time police have stopped Michael Thomas Breza, 32, for driving after his license had been revoked. “Habitual criminality,”t hey call it. The latest stop, about 11:45 p.m., was for bad license plate illumination, but the officer soon learned that Breza couldn’t produce a valid driving license. And from a dispatcher’s check of records, the officer learned this was Breza’s seventh such stop. At he jailhouse he was released because he said he had a funeral to get to in the morning. He was told to get there some other way. Meanwhile he later will have some answering to do.
College scores
Soccer (women): Winona State 3, UM-Duluth 3
Minnesota prep
Volleyball (girls): Winona Cotter Rangers 3, LaCrescent-Hokah Lancers 0
Volleyball (girls): Rushford-Peterson Trojans 3, Grand Meadow Superlarks 0
Volleyball (girls): Chatfield Gophers 3, St. Charles Saints 0
Volleyball (girls): Plainview-Elgin-Millville Bulldogs 3, Lewiston-Altura Cardinals 2
Raised fist leads to assault charge
ROLLINGSTONE, Minn. – A Rollingstone woman, Amanda Jo Lee, 38, was arrested after a report that she had raised an arm as if to strike a 13-year-old boy. Deputies said the boy felt threatened. This was about 6:15 p.m. Lee was booked at the Winona County jail for domestic assault.
Lee. Domestic disturbance on Chestnut Street.
Target reclaims two carts of shop-lifted goods
WINONA, Minn. – A Red Wing couple was stopped after wheeling two red carts loaded with merchandise out of the East End Target mega-store. Michael Charles Heller, 59, and Julie Ann Heller, 54, were stopped by store detectives in the parking lot. Police said the degree of pending charges would be determined once Target tabulates the value of the recovered goods.
Winona jury to former priest: Guilty
WINONA, Minn. – A jury found former priest Ubaldo Roque Huerta guilty of sexual misconduct after a four-day trial. Huerto, 51, was accused of assaulting an intoxicated man in December 2020. Deliberations took onlv two hours. Judge Mary Leahy set sentencing was scheduled for January. At the time the Winona Catholic Diocese already had disassociated itself from Huerto. His unorthodox, sometimes rollicking services had raised eyebrows in the church hierarchy despite attracting large Hispanic crowds in every parish where he was assigned. After Huerto was arrested on the sex charge, he skipped bail. Nine months later he was found in Rushmore in southwest Minnesota and returned to Winona.
Earlier: Bond set for ex-priest after South Dakota arrest
Earlier: South Dakota end of trail for fleeing ex-priest
Earlier: Cops stymied on finding ex-priest in sex case
Earlier: Ex-priest misses court date on sex charge
No doubt now: Phillips running for White House
CONCORD , N.H. – Secretary of State David Scanlan confirmed that Congress member Dean Phillips of Minnesota has rented parking space in front of the New Hampshire Capitol to kick off his campaign for president. The space is long enough for Philips’ Greyhound-scale campaign bus, Scanlan said. Phillips also has paid a $100 filing fee to be on he the state’s March 12 primary ballot. The primary, however, won’t be a match-up against President Joe Biden, who is passing the New Hampshire primary because it isn’t on the Democratic Party’s authorized national schedule of events. The primary is March 12.
New Hampshire-bound. A decked-out Phillips campaign bus was spotted on an Ohio turnpike Wednesday heading for the Minnesota congressman to launch a campaign New Hampshire presidential primary.
Phellips. A step up from his eye-catching converted delivery van for his 2022 MN-3 Congressional campaign.
Driver gravely hurt in semi, van crash
RED WING, Minn. – A Red Wing driver was injured critically when a semi-truck plowed into his delivery van, whoch was waiting at a stoplight at a U.S. Hghway 61 intersection. Derrek Kenneth Ca Allen, 29, was taken a few blocks to the Red Wing hospital. His injuries were described as life-threatening. This happened about 1:05 p.m. at the Aspen Drive intersection. The driver of the semi, Ronald Wesley Lewis, 58, of Saint Louis Park, was unhurt. The semi, a 2016 Freightliner, was northbound headed out of Red Wing. Allen was in a 2022 Mercedes Metris delivery van.
Hixton stabbing suspect taken without resistance
TAYLOR, Wis. – Federal agents and Jackson County deputies arrested a Hixton man for a stabbing during a home invasion two weeks ao. The arrest was ag a house in Taylor, eight miles from Hixton. Anthony Sylvester IV surrendered without resistance, Sheriff Duane Waldera said. Sylvester was taken 15 miles to the Jackson County Jail in Black River Falls. Waldera said that additional charges, besides intentional homicide, are possible: Burglary, battery, and use of a dangerous weapon. Sylvester was reported to have had a gun in the home invasion.
Sylvester. Well-coiffured when arrested.
Prosecutor alleges doctor’s plot to poison wife
ROCHESTER, Minn. – The criminal complaint against ex-Mayo doctor Connor Bowman alleges a complex and bidden online search for a rare medicine that he then served her in a smoothie. She became deadly ill the next morning and died of organ failure four days later. Then, according to the criminal complaint, Bowman tried to have her cremated. The coroner was suspicious, however, and intervened. The jig was up. Bowman, 30, was arrested Friday and arraigned Monday. The charge: Second-degree murder with intent. An option now for county prosecutor Mark Ostrem is to ask a judge to empanel a grand jury to elevate the charge to first-degree murder. In Minnesota, a grand jury indictment is necessary for a charge of first-degree murder, which can be punishable by life imprisonment. These are sordid deails as alleged in the criminal complaint:
> Betty Bowman died August 20, four days after being admitted to a Mayo emergency room. Cause of death was recorded as cardiac issues and eventual organ failure.
> Connor Bownan told Macken Funeral Homes, which arranged services, that death was hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. HLH is extremely rare — a sudden-onset autoimmune and infectious illness in which a patient’s immune system attacks the organs. Betty Bowman’s hospital records, however, did not identify an HLH diagnosis.
> Connor Bowman attempted to cancel an autopsy and to cremate the body.
> The Southeast Minnesota medical examiner halted the cremation order for after learning that her death might be suspicious.
> Connor Bowman asked for a list of substances that toxicologists would be testing for.
> Regional medical examiners noted that Betty Bowman’s symptoms although similar to food poisoning, did not respond to cinventional treatment
> A woman called the medical examiner with concerns about the state of the Bowman marriage, She said that they had discussed divorce.
In happier moment. Connor and Betty Jo Bowman, From a family album.
Bowman profiles
Betty Jo Bownan, 32, was a pharmacist in the operating room at Mayo Clinic. She wa a 2017 grafuate of the Kansas Staw University pharmacy school. Connor Bowman, 30, was graduate io the University of Kansas medical school and in a residency at Mayo. He had earlier training in pharmaceuticals.
> Another woman told police that the couple kept separate bank accounts, since Connor Bowman had debts from pharmacy and medical school. The woman told police that Connor Bowman said he would get $500,000 in life insurance after Betty Bowman’s death.
> A man told police that Betty Bowman had texted him on August 15, saying she was drinking with Connor, then the next morning became sick. The man quoted Betty that she suspected something had been mixed into a smoothie that made her sick.
> Police received a report that Connor Bowman had used his Mayo Clinic credentials to access Betty Bowman’s patient account and electronic health records between August 16 and August 20. That was the period when she was hospitalized and dying. He claimed that Betty had given him permission to access her information.
> There was no allegation that at Conor Bowman changed any notes or information in Betty’s records but that he kept checking records from August 23 for a week or so.
> Police seized Connor Bowman’s electronic devices, including a University of Kansas laptop. In discussing the seizure with a university staffer, Bowman acknowledged he was a suspect in Betty Bowman’s death. Meanwhile, the university. had traced his internet browsing and found him searching for sodium nitrate, a food preservative that can limit oxygen transport though the body. He also searched for vendors selling the product. The university also said that Bowman’s had been researching colchicine, which is used to treat gout, He also browsed about whether evidence from police racking of Amazon deliveries can be used in court. Police had tracked package delivery on August 5.
> On August 10 Bowman searched for “food v. industrial grade sodium nitrate” and then searched for how medical professionals assess the lethality of substances. On the same day Bowman used Betty Bowman’s weight to determine what wouod be a lethal dose would be for colchicine, then searched for the substance on GoodRx.
> Bowman made purchases online around the time he was searching for liquid colchicine.
> Medical examiners found colchicine in Betty Bowman’s blood and urine. The level of colchicine in her blood on August 17 was 29 ng/mL, a large amount. This was about 24 hours after she first exhibited symptoms.
> The medical examiner declared that Betty Bowman’s death was the due to toxic effects of colchicine. The manner of death was as listed homicide.
> Bowman was arrested.
> Connor Bowman’s residence and located a receipt for a $450,000 bank deposit.
R.I.P.: Helga Kuehn
WINONA, Minn. – Helga Janny Ferres, 84, of Winona, who often spoke in schools about courage and perseverance, died in her sleep at home. When 5, she suffered devastating injuries crossing street as Russian troops invaded Thuringia in her native Gemany. A Russian vehicle dragged her 75 feet, resulting in a two-month coma and leaving a quarter-sized spot on her brain. She was alredat an abuse survivor of Hitler’s Lebensborn program, enduring surgical experimentation due to not meeting their definition of perfection. Ostracized by some of her family, she endured physical and mental abuse and was denied food. In 1961 she became a U.S citizen. She grew up to be recognized frig her generosity and passion for kiters, her family said.
Detail: Watkowski-Mulyck Funeral Home
1939-2023
R.I.P.: Sheila Agnes Manning
ST. CHARLES, Minn. – Sheila Agnes Manning, age 78, formerly of St. Charles, died in Tampa, Florida, with Parkinson’s disease. She was born in Arcadia, Wisconsin, and schooled in Rochester. She held an advanced degree from the University of South Carolina and taught high school math and physics. Much of her career was overseas. In Jamaica she helped open an orphanage. While teaching in Kuwait, she had to be airlifted out during the 1990 Iraqi occupation. She also taught in Taiwan.
Details: Hoff Funeral Home
1945-2023
R.I.P.: Patricia Knee
GOODVIEW, Minn. – Patricia Knee, 78, of Goodview, who worked 28 years at the College of St. Teresa, including as secretary and assistant to four college presidents, died of cancer with hospice care. After St. Teresa closed in 1991, she worked for Saint Teresa Campus Schools and later at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. She was. a graduate of Cotter High School. She was active in Mrs. Jaycees, the Goodview Activity Group, and Women in Business. She volunteered with Treasures Galore, the Red Cross, and CSTea House.
Details: Hoff Funeral Home
1945-2023
News summary at mid-week: October 25, 2023
GOVERNANCE: Van Orden on lone-wolf mission to Israel
GOVERNANCE: County Board OKs cap on dog-breeding kennels
FIRE: Brief shutdown from fire at Wincraft plant
POLITICS: How they voted: On House speakership /4
POLITICS: It’s over: Minnesota’s Emmer tallies votes, not enough
WEATHER: Rain sweeps Winona: Official total 6.8 inches
POLICING: Worrisome online gun image from another Lewiston
SCHOOLS: Cops: Charges ahead for bad Plainview school acts
SCHOOLS: Rehab center fills with smoke, evacuated
COMMERCE: Kwik Trip offers post-cyberattack amends
CRIME: Bail at $5 million doctor in wife’s death
CRIME: “Please bring my meds to jail, heroin too”
CRIME: Liquored-up at Gabby’s: Beef goes into the street
College scores
Soccer (women): UW-LaCrosse and Gustavus Adolphus, cancelled
Volleyball (women): UM-Duluth 3, Winona State 1
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