Tennis (men): Saint Mary’s 6, Wisconsin Lutheran 1

Tennis (men): Saint Mary’s 4, Ripon 3

WINONA, Minn. — A 911 caller reported a “large fight” in the downtown bar district about 2:30 a.m.  The combatants scattered and got away as the first police squad arrived. The street fight was near Third  and Center streets in the Gabby’s Bar and Market Street Tap neighborhood.

Basketball (boys): LaCrosse Aquinas Blugolds 83, Winona Cotter/ Winona Hope 61

Basketball (girls): Onalaska Hilltoppers 58, Apple Valley Eagles 57

Basketball (girls): Wisconsin Dells Chiefs 52, LaCrosse Central RiverHawks 32

WINONA, Minn. — A LaCrescent man was stopped after stealing fishing gear from the Fleet Farm outdoors supplies section, police said.  Brevin Shey Sass-Loken, age 25, was arrested without objection and ticketed. This was about 2:10 p.m. The store recovered the gear, which was valued at $370.

Interstate voices for Freedom. Two contingents of Freedom Day marchers departed from midriver on Latch Island and from Windom Park in Winona. They joined midway on the State Highway 43 bridge 64 feet above the frozen-over main channel. “Hello Wisconsin” was the chant. Passing motorists honked support. Image: Andy Frank

Protest was fourth in series, all peaceful

WINONA, Minn. — The arrival of dozens of sign-carrying, flag-waving marchers from a demonstration over the Mississippi River swelled the crowd to everal hundred at Winina’s Windom Park. Organizers called the bridge event “Freedom March Number Four.” Their point: To demand that President Trump end his ICE deportation attacks on immigrants and anyone who gets in their way. ICE agents in Minneapolis have shot and killed two persons, both U.S. ctizens, and detained dozens of other Minnesotans. Terry Schoonover, of rural Alma, chair of Buffalo County Democrats & Friends, expressed frustrations: “We are upset and angry and embarrassed with what’s going.” The Windom Park protest, he said, represents citizen pushback to “the fiasco going on,” Schoonover said. Organizing the protest were Buffalo County Democrats and the grassroots Winona Rapid Response Team. The Winona group has assembled teams in recent weeks to spot, track and record ICE intrusions and to alert anyone targeted by ICE to stay indoors. Speakers at Windom Park described ICE arrests — some of them violent, brutal and bloody — as affecting communities everywhere. The protesters’ call: Build connections between immigrant families and local communities.

Schoonover. Democratic leader from Buffalo County in Wisconsin.

WINONA, Minn. — A juvenile reported a woman bared her breasts on a party bus as it drove by him on Highway 61 entering Winona from the south. This was about 1:05 p.m. County deputies didn’t locate the bus, but city police picked up the trail inside the city limits.  All breasts were tucked in, officers said.

BLACK RVER FALLS, Wis. —The driver of a truck-tractor unit died when the rig overturned between the Black River Falls exits on Interstate 94.  Authorities withheld the victim’s name until family could be reached. The accident was about 12:40 p.m. The truck mowed through multiple trees with significant damage to both the cab and trailer. The rig came to rest several hundred feet into the ditch.

WINONA, Minn. — The Winona County emergency management director, Ben Klinger of Goodview, announced his candidacy for sheriff to succeed Ron Ganrude, who is retiring. Klinger made the announcement on Facebook. He said to expect a formal campaign launch March 11 at Sobieski Lodge in Winona. As the county’s emergency management director, Klinger has been a major aide to Ganrude. He organizes mock emergency scenarios for first-responders to hone heir inter-agency coordination skills. He noted that he knows the 460 square miles of Winona County well — the nooks, the crannies, the waterways. The sheriff’s departmen has two dozen sworn officers. Klinger listed his public service as including:

> 25 years with the sheriff’s office.

> Being current mayor of the Winona suburb of  Goodview, population 4,200, and earlier a City Council member.

> A police officer in Lewiston, population 1,500, in central Winona County.

> A part-time police officer and volunteer firefighter in Goodview.

> A county jail deputy, compliance officer and training supervisor.

Klinger’s most visible moment was in 2023. He organized hundreds of volunteers for repeated sweeps of three counties for the missing Winona murder victim Maddi Kingsbury.

Earlier: Retirement beckons: Sheriff Ganrude leaving post

Earlier: Kingsbury search tally: 1,860 volunteers

MADISON, Wis. —  The Chicago-based owner of Burger King fast-food shops has been accused of 1,600 violations of Wisconsin child labor and wage laws. The state Workforce Development Department said the violations occurred over a two-year period at 100 locations and involved 600 minors. Among options offered Cave Enterprises to lavoid itigation was to pay $828,000 — $500 for per violation — to resolve the matter.

Cave profile

he Chicago company Cave Enterprises is among Burger King’s largest franchise-holders. The cooany has locations in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, Minnesota and South Dakota. Among Minnesota locations is Winona on Mankato Avenue.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A Stewartville man driving a delivery van into Rochester was injured fatally in a collision with a truck and semi-railer. Ths was near the Rochester airport. The victim was Daniel Victor Schandorff, age 48. He died at a Rochester hospital five miles away. The driver of the semi, a Freightliner Cascadia, was Jack Michael Lieffort, 55, of Grand Meadow. He was unhurt. The crash occurred on U.S. Highway 53. Both the truck and Schandorf’s Chevrolet delivery van were northound on wet pavement, Olmsted County deputies said. This was about 9:45 p.m. Schandorff was unbelted, deputies said.