ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Rochester doctor just finishing a residency at Mayo Clinic was arraigned on a charge of poisoning his wife fatally. Judge Lisa Hayne set bail at $2 million for Connor Bowman, 30, with stipulations that included GPS monitoring. For $5 million, the judge said Bowman could  be released unconditionally on his own recognizance. It was not believed that Bowman had access to those kinds of resources. He was heavily in debt from medical school, although he recently had received $450,000 thought to be a life insurance payout for the death of his wife. Betty Jo Bowman, 33, died at the Mayo hospital of what was believed at the time, in August, to be a sudden-onset autoimmune and infectious illness.

Earlier: Mayo doctor accused of murder in wife’s death

Mayo: No longer ours

Mayo Clinic distanced itself form Bowman. In a news release: “We are aware of the recent arrest of a former Mayo Clinic resident on charges unrelated to his Mayo Clinic responsibilities.  The resident’s training at Mayo Clinic ended earlier this month.” Mayo typically has 300 recent medical school graduates as residents. Their salary: $63,000.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Two cars collided at a stop-and-go intersection just east Rochester, injuring both drivers. Pamela Mae Littlefield, 75, of St. Charles, suffered non-life threatening injuries, as did Samuel Craig Rose, 26, of Elgin. Both were taken six miles to a Rochester hospital. The accident was about 1:05 p.m. on U.S Highway 14 between Rochester and Chester at County Road 11. Rose was northbound in a 2011 Cadillac CTS,  and Littlefield eastbound in a 2019 Ford Edge. Airbag deployed in both cars, deputies said.

Soccer (women): Mary 2, Winona State 0

THIELMAN, Minn.  – A Lakeville motorcyclist died between Thielman and Dumfries on State Highway 60. Jeffrey Patrick Nelson, 26, died apparently outright on impact. His cycle left the Highway 60 right-of-way on a sweeping curve near the County Road 13 crossroads. The pavement was dry, deputies said. This was about 3:55 p.m. He was headed west from Wabasha toward Mazeppa and Zumbrota.

Dry and upper 50s. Another Winona day worth waking up to. There may be scattered showers tonight.  Image: Steve Lunde

WINONA Minn. – A St. Paul driver, Sawda Abdullahi Mohamed, 24, was booked for drunken driving after losing control at the Highway 61 rotary intersection Mankato Avenue. She hit signs and ended up in the landscaping. This was about 3:15 a.m. Although Mohamed denied drinking, officers and she looked, smelled and acted drunk. Her blood-alcohol level tested at 0.20% — 2-1/2 times higher than the legal maximum for driving.

Mohamed. How did alcohol get into her blood?

HOMER, Minn. – A Winona driver was steering all over the road and was arrested on Highway 61 near Black Horse Road, deputies said.  There were other driving violations too, according to deputies. Parke Phillip Stoltman, 30, of Winona, explained that he was on medications. But for some reason he refused a blood-alcohol breath test on site. Deuties took him to jail anyway for symptoms of drunken driving — bloodshot and  watery eyes and a tell-tale body odor and because of previous DWI  arrests. At the county jail Stolrman refused again to be tested, this time to provide blood or urine. The refusals resulted in their own charge. This was about 1:50 a.m. At the jailhouse a jailer intercepted Stoltman texting a girlfriend to bring his meds – and heroin. Her bag was examined when she arrived. The bag contained only prescribed medications — no heroin. But Stoltman then found  himself charged with an additional count of attempting to import contraband  to jail.

Stoltman. Charged also with trying import contraband into jail.

WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a man fleeing from a street fight outside Gabby’s bar and then finding a gun he had been carrying. Patrick Julius Walker, 34, fell as he was running. A pursuing police officer jumped on Walker and cuffed him. Meanwhile a crowd from Gabby’s was gathering on the street. The scene turned chaotic. The crowd turned on the officers and shouted for wWalker  to be released  — even though police had been called to quell the street fight after Walker reportedly showed .45-calibre pistol on his belt. Applying their crowd-control training, officers managed both to cuff Walker and get him into a squad car and take him seven blocks to jail. The others  retreated back into Gabby’s. This was about 12:05 a.m. As best as police could reconstruct the disturbance, Walker was upset at disrespect he perceived toward a woman in the bar. The disturbance spilled outside. Walker reportedly slapped three others in their faces. As police arrived, someone pointed to Walker in a yellow shirt as carrying a gun. He broke and ran, heaving a metal object away as he fled. The object, which clunked on the street, turned out to be a .45-caliber pistol, police said. At jail Walker was found to be carrying 1.6 grams of meth. He was booked for:

> Threatening violence.

> Possessing drugs.

> Possessing a firearm without a permit.

> Obstructing the legal process.

> Fleeing police.

> Engaging in disorderly conduct.

> Being a predatory offender.

Walker. Reportedly he objected to someone uttering bad words about a woman. He came to her defense. A disturbance ensued, went into the street, and turned chaotic.

Gabby’s. 179 East Third Street on a quiet morning after.

LEWISTON, Minn. – A long gun was found left behind, apparently by a trap-shooter, at the Lewiston Sportsmen’s Club up the Peterson Creek coulee. Deputes traced the gun. It had been reported stolen in Goodview.

Soccer (women): Winona State 0, Minot State 0

Volleyball (women): Winona State 3, UM-Crookston 0

Volleyball (women): St. Catherine 3, Saint Mary’s 0

Volleyball (women): UW-Eau Claire 3, UW-LaCrosse 1

WINONA, Minn. – A moped driver escaped serious injury when his motorized pedal bike tipped over on the poorly maintained railroad tracks that run down the middle of Wall Street on the Far East End. This was about 8 p.m. Deputies suspected alcohol also was a factor and wanted to test Jeremy Eugene Ealy, 41, for his blood-alcohol level. He refused, which meant a charge of refusal. Deputies said that Ealy’s eyes were bloodshot, his speech was slurred, and his balance was uneven, and that he smelled drunk. A fire crew was called to clean up gas and oil on the street

WINONA, Minn. – A judge delayed a request from a Mabel couple for visitation rights to their grandchildren while their son Adam Fravel is in jail awaiting trial for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, with who he fathered the children. The Fravels said they hadn’t seen their grandchildren. age 5 and 3, in 6-1/2 months. Judge Mary Leahy said she needed more time to discuss the issues and consider the Fravels’  request.  It was in March that the children’s mother, Maddi Kigsbury, disappeared from the Winona townhouse that she and Fravel shared. Her body was found 2-1/2 months later in woods a few miles from the Fravels’ rural home near Mabel, where Adam had taken up residence. The children have been in the custody of the maternal grandparents. David and Cathy. who have been unfriendly to anything to do with the Fravels. The Kingsburys both took early retirements to care for the grandchildren.

Earlier: Rebuke to Kingsburys in Fravel custody matter

Earlier: What led police to body of Maddi Kingsbury

Earlier: Further arrests possible in Maddi Kingsbury case?

Earlier: Basis for Fravel arrest? Police chief: “Probable cause”

Earlier: Sheriff: Maddi body carefully covered, concealed

Pipeline on rails. A six-axle Canadian Pacific locomotive strains with a train of tankers in approaching the LaCrescent Wye from the south, heading either upriver to Winona and beyond or across the Mississippi River swing bridge to LaCrosse and Wisconsin points. Some 101 cars back is a remote-controlled Union Pacific distributed-power pusher.  Because corn-based ethanol doesn’t lend itself to transport through pipelines, the only practicable alternative to distant refineries is unit trains. Image: Steve Lunde

ROCHESTER, Minn. – A physician who recently completed a Mayo Clinic residency was arrested for mrder in the death of his wife. Connor Fitzgerald Bowman, 30, was taken into custody in a traffic stop in southwest Rochester about 1:35 p.m. His wife, Betty Jo Bowman, 32, died August 20, four days after going to a Mayo emergency with diarrhea and severe dehydration. Her cause of death was listed initially as a sudden-onset autoimmune and infectious illness. Police later were tipped that she may have been poisoned.

Bowman. Arrest warrant charges second-degree murder.

WINONA, Minn. – A downtown bar bouncer blocked two men, one wearing ski mask, when they refused to show proof they were 21. As words were exchanged the bouncer thought he saw a handgun in one of the men’s waistband. This was on the man with the ski mask. Police were called. A couple blocks away, near Second and Jefferson streets, officers located the pair, one still wearing a ski mask, and checked them out. No gun was found. So why the ski mask on a balmy October night in the 40s? “So why not? Not against the law, is it?”  This all started about 1:15 a.m. in a bar in the 100 block of Third Street. The bouncer said he asked the masked man to take it off but he refused. That’s when things heated up – before the pair backed off and left.

WINONA Minn. – The blood in a driver’s body was 0.11% alcohol, according to breath test after she was stopped for a bad taillight. For Alisia Mariah Louise Barker, 22, of Coon Rapids, 0.11% was too much – about 1-1/2 times more than  the law describes as impairment. This was about 12:45 a.m. at Fifth and Winona streets downtown. Officers said she admitted to two beers and wine earlier.

Football: Rochester Mayo Spartans 42, Woodbury East Ridge Raptors 36