Emergency, fire crews make 47 calls
WINONA, Minn. – The Fire Department reported 36 emergency medical calls plus 13 fire calls in recent days:
> Tuesday, January 20: 7 medical calls plus no fire calls.
> Monday, January 19: 8 medical calls plus 1 fire call.
> Sunday, January 18: 3 medical calls plus 4 fire calld.
> Saturday, January 17: 5 medical calls plus 1 fire call.
> Friday, January 16: 5 medical calls plus 2 fire 1 fire call.
> Thursday, January 15: 5 medical calls plus 3 fire calls.
> Wednesday, January 14: 3 medical calls plus 3 fire calls.
Earlier: Emergency, fire crews make 48 calls
Car overturns between Lewiston, Stockton
LEWISTON, Minn. — A car overturned on its side at the top of Lewiston Grade with initial reports indicating serious injury. This was about 7:10 a.m. on the heavily traveled Winona-to-Rochester trunk commuting artery. First-responders were called from Lewiston and Stockton. The westbound lane of U.S. Highway 14 was blocked for emergency crews at the Dutchman’s Crossing exit to the old Old Highway 14 into Lewiston.
Trump ups ante in Minnesota showdown
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — President Trump has ordered 500 active-duty military police to stand by for possible deployment to Minnesota. Sources at Fort Bragg, where the 16th Military Police Brigade is headquartered, called the White House order “precautionary.” Such deployment would be constitutionally risky. The 1807 Insurrection Act allows federal farmed forces into a locality only in desperate situations. The law hasn’t been used since 1992 when President George H.W. Bush sent troops to Los Angeles for riots following the police beating of Rodney King. Bush, however, was acting at the request of California Governor Pete Wison and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradle. In Minnesota there has been no such state request. In fact Governor Tim Walz and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul have declared that local citizen unrest has been caused solely by Trump himself for sending 3,500 deportation agents into the state and that the agents’ brutality has exceeded any acceptable Minnesota norms. The answer to the civic resistance in Minnesota is for Trump to end his uninvited deportation surge into the state, say Walz and the mayors.

16th Army Police Brigade. A diverse military police nit in garrisons at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Campbell in Kentucky; Fort Drum in New York; Fort Johnson in Louisiana; and Fort Stewart in Georgia.
Out of the woods at Terrace Heights


An evening graze. On the Saint Mary’s University soccer field a herd gnaws through frozen snow for blades of grass. One deer found dinner, light though it be, on the quietly lighted gateway to the central campus. ‘Twas cold, below zero. Images: Steve Lunde
Minnesota scores
Basketball (boys): Onalaska Hilltoppers 82, Winona Winhawks 59
Basketball (boys): Winona Cotter/Winona Hope 98, Plainview-Elgin-Millville Bulldogs 76
Basketball (boys): Rushford-Peterson Trojans 73, Lewiston-Altura Cardinals 66
Basketball (boys): St. Charles Saints 97, Harmony Fillmore Central Falcons 62
Basketball (girls): Winona Cotter/Winona Hope 62, Plainview-Elgin-Millville Bulldogs 53
Basketball (girls): Rushford-Peterson Trojans 68, Lewiston-Altura Cardinals 66
Basketball (girls): Harmony Fillmore Central Falcons 56, St. Charles Saints 53
Hockey (boys): Owatonna Huskies 4, Winona Winhawks 2
Hockey (girls): Owatonna Huskies 11, Winona Winhawks 0
Wisconsin prep
Basketball (boys): Onalaska Hilltoppers 82, Winona Winhawks 59
Basketball (boys): Galesville Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Red Hawks 82, Black River Falls Tigers 44
Basketball (girls): Fall Creek Crickets 64, Arcadia Raiders 50
Basketball (girls): Mauston Golden Eagles 85, Galesville Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Red Hawks 36
Basketball (girls): Independence Indees 78, Augusta Beavers 46
Winona business leadership silent on boycott
WINONA, Minn. – The Winona Chamber of Commerce, which has 400 members, mostly retailers, has been silent about its counsel to members on dealing with the pending ICE Out of MN boycott. Spot checks around the state show that Big Box chain-owned stores planned to stay open but so not much locally owned businesses. The St. Pal Pioneer Press reported dozens of community sensitiveve co-ops closing. Among them: Mississippi Market Co-op, which has three stores in St. Paul; two Wedge Community Co-ops in Minneapolis, Eastside Food Co-op in Minneapolis, the Seward Community Co-op, which has locations in Minneapolis; and River Market Co-op in Stillwater; 620 Club. Among Twin Cities ;ocal proprietorships closing: the Black Hart of St. Paul, Caydence Records and Coffee; Claddagh Coffee; Emerald Lounge; Estelle’;Hyacinth; J.Selby’s; Lost Fox; Marc Heu Patisserie; Mucci’s Italian; Quixotic Coffee; and the Wet Paint and the Yarnery craft shops.
Winona Chamber profile
Christie Ransom, president. Executive committee: Crystal Hiatt of Hiatt Metal Forming, chair; Jon Olson, Winona State University Foundation, past chair; Chris Callahan, chair-elect; Rod Baker.[, Winona Health, at-large member. Other bord members: Shawn Beier, REA broker; Tina Lehnertz, Lehnertz Family Farm; Ross Lexvold, Ecel Energy; Mike Puetz, Sugar Loaf Ford Lincoln; Julie Kosidowki, Engrav’s Decorating; Meg Krinke; VCS Technology; Jennifer Shabel, Wagner Oehler; Neil Wieser, Wieser Brothers Construction.

Verbatim
Mississippi Market: “As a cooperative, we believe our shared labor, time, and economic participation are powerful tools. This coordinated statewide pause reflects our commitment to democratic action, mutual responsibility, and concern for our communities. Acting together is one way we live our cooperative values. We stand with those calling for justice and demand ICE leave Minnesota now.”
Ellison to stay the course as attorney general
ST.PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, his hands already full with legal battles staving off President Trump’s siege of the state, announced he won’t run for governor. “The President of the United States is tearing apart families and terrorizing our communities,” said Ellison. “Defending our state as attorney general is the most important thing I have done in my career.” Ellison confirmed, as he announced in October, that he will be seeking a third term as attorney general. Since October the Minnesota political landscape has been shaken by the Walz decision not to run again for governor, which propelled Ellison on to short lists as a gubernatorial possibility.
Earlier: Klobuchar seen as gubernatorial front runner
Earlier: Walz cancels re-election campaign
Labor unions unite against Trump’s Minnesota siege
MINNEAPOLIS — Leaders of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, a federation of 1,000 local union units, voted to endorse a one-day walkout and boycott aimed at ending President Trump’s siege of Minnesota. About the siege, Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham said: “They are indiscriminately targeting Minnesotans of color, regardless of citizenship or immigration status,” Many people, she said, are fearful of going to work, shopping for groceries and sending their children to school. Earlier the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, which represents 175 local unions and 80,000 union members, endorsed the ICE Out of MN project. The Federation president, Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, said some union workers have been detained or are afraid to go to work: “They’ve had to make gut-wrenching, life-altering choices about whether or not they’re going to go to work, so they can put food on the table, or whether they’re going to stay home, and stay safe, and stay alive.” State nursing and higher-ed unions also have organized to participate.

Good’s family wary of federal probe of death
MINNEAPAOLIS — The family of Renee Good, who was klld bh an ICE agents two weeks ago, is pursuing its own investigation of the shooting. The family’s attorney, Antonio Romanucci, said the investigation will be separate from any county, state or federal probe. “The thought that there is only a one-sided investigation is really not palatable to the family, nor should it be to the government or the American people,” Romanucci told a CBS interviewer. So far the federal government has pushed a false not-oir-fault narrative of the facts.
Earlier: Analysis: ICE agent shot Renee Good four times
Earlier: ICE agent ID’d in Minneapolis raid death
Earlier: Earlier: Woman shot dead in Minneapolis ICE raid
MinnState campuses join Ice Out of MN walk-out
WINONA, Minn. — The union for MinnState university profs has begun planning for faculty, student and staff fparticipation Friday in the Ice Out of MN boycott. Jenna Chernrga of Winona State, president of the statewide union, said that planning sessions begin Wednesday for “collective framing, safety tips and logistics.” Chernega’s IFO is the collective bargaining agent for faculty at seven MinnState university campuses whose enrollments total 58,000.

Mystery burglary reported in Rollingstone
ROLLLINGSTONE, Minn. — A Rollingstone woman reported returning home after two weeks to discover her place had had been burgled. An odd combination items was missing, she told Winona County deputies: A toothbrush and other brushes; household tools like a screwdriver, hammer and a tape measure; a remote control for an electronic device; nad family photographs. The woman called deputies about 4:40 p.m. to her place on Cleveland Street. She said the house had been unlocked.
Wisconsin drug case ends in Winona
WINONA, Minn. — Deputies from Buffalo County in Wisconsin chased a vehicle over the interstate bridge into Winona. The vehicle was located parked in the Maplewood neighborhood on the Far West End. This was about 4:30 p.m. Winona police stood by as the Wisconsin deputies seized the abandoned vehicle. The chase had begun as Buffalo County deputies attempted to serve a drugs-related warrant.
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Driver hurt in Root River collision
HOUSTON, Minn. – A Rushford driver was injured when her sedan and a delivery van collided on U.S. Highway 16 between Houston and Rushford. Julie Jean Odonnell, age 57, was taken 21 miles to a LaCrosse hospital. Houston County deputies said her injuries appeared non-life-threatening. The accident was about 6:30 a.m. on a dry surface. The delivery van driver, Gregory Scott Sheldon, 55, of Houston, was unhurt. The vehicles were traveling opposite directions, Odonnell eastbound in a 2014 Chevrolet Malibu and Sheldon westbound in a 2015 Chevrolet Express G3500, deputies said. This was near the Chisholm Road cut-off.
A Sun Dog over I-90: Omen for better days ahead?

A rare parhelion. Usually called a Sun Dog, an an atmospheric optical phenomenon. Bright spots appear on either side of the sun. Caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in the atmosphere, typically when the sun is low on the horizon in cold weather. This was on Interstate 90 near the Houston exit about 4 p.m. on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Image: Andy Frank
A night on the town ends with DWI
WINONA, Minn. — An Illinois driver was stopped near the downtown bar district about 1:30 a.m., admitted to having cruised he bars, and was arrested as driving drunk. Kylie Liz Hensley, age 21, from the north Chicago suburb of Forest Lake, hadn’t turned on her headlights, said the arresting officer. There were immediate signs of intoxication, the officer said: Bloodshot and watery eyes and lethargic speech. A roadside breath test showed her blood was 0.12% alcohol — 1-1/2 times too much. Later at jail her blood-alcohol had climbed to 0.13%. The arrest was at Third and Center streets.
Minnesota scores
Basketball (boys): Winona Cotter/Winona Hope 86, Harmony Fillmore Central Falcons 52
Basketball (girls): Red Wing Wingers 68, Winona Winhawks 32
Wisconsin prep
Anti-ICE boycott for Friday picks up steam
MINNEAPOLIS — Community organizers have called for an economic boycott to force Trump’s storm-trooper units ton= witdraw their intrusions that have ignited citizen protests. It’s a one-day event on Friday, possibly to be extended. The theme: “No Work. No School. No Shopping.” Citizen group, including organized labor, claimed immediate support. Among them were units of the:
>AFL-CIO affiliated Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation.
> Minnesota Nurses Association.
> Communications Workers of America.
> St. Paul Federation of Educators.
>Service Employees Union.
> Transit Union.
Other early endorsers included Faith in Minnesota, Tending the Soil, United Renters for Justice, Unidos Minnesota, Communities Against Police Brutality, Indivisible Twin Cities, Women’s March Minnesota, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha, and Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee. In all, 90 organizations, big and small, had endorsed the call. Most advertsing-dependent news media, however, were silent, unwillng to risk disfavor from local advertisers.

Boycott a=posters. Cropping up statewide. Question is how widely will the event gain sympathy nationally.

Boycott announcement. F faith leaders are among suporters. Pastor James Erlandson at the influential Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in St. Paul said his congregation plans a day of fasting and prayers.
Boycott demands
> ICE leave Minnesota now.
> The officer who killed Renee Good be held legally accountable.
> Federal funding for ICE in be deketed upcoming Congressional budget.
> CE fve jnvestgated or human rights and constitutional rights = of American citizens and their immiga=rant neighbors.
> Corporaions sever economic ties with ICE.
> Corporations deny CE entry on their property as staging grounds.
Motorist cited in Amish buggy crash
TROY, Minn.— A Lewiston woman admitted she had dozed off when she drove into a horse-drawn buggy last week on a highway in southwest Winona County. Hailey Marie Heins-Lange, age 23, was cited for reckless and careless driving. Lange told deputies she didn’t see the buggy. With the driver in the buggy were three passengers, ages 14, 13 and 12. None was injured. The horse survived a leg injury.
Alternate-side parking tally at 1,566
WINONA, Minn. — Police contiuedenforcing the city’s alternate-side parking ordinance. The running tally:
> January 18: 66 citations.
> January 15 to 17: None. Officers had other priorities.
> Early January: 310 citations
> December: 402 citations of which 45 were tagged and towed.
> November totals: 739 citations.
One person dead in house fire, second badly burned
HOKAH, Minn. — Firefighters found a severely burned woman outside a burning Hokah house and the remains of a another person inside. The victims’ names were withheld without explanation by Houston County Sheriff Brian Swedberg. Firefighters arrived around 4:30 a.m. to find the wood frame two-story house fully engulfed. This was on South Third Street, a dead-end block off State Highway 44, which heads out of town toward Caledonia. The woman was described as having “extreme burns throughout her body and other injuries.” She was taken 13 miles to a LaCrosse hospital.
Beyond salvage. Fire’s origins not determined. State fire marshal to investigate/. Image: Houston County sheriff

Driver hurt in icy Rushford rollover
RUSHFORD, Minn. — A Rushford woman was injured when she lost control of her sedan and rolled into a ditch north of Rushford. Autumn Ann Bearbower, 20, was taken 18 miles to the Winona hospital. Her injuries were described as non-life threatening. The accident was about 7:40 p.m. on snow-covered and icy State Highway 43. The airbag in her 2005 Chevrolet Impala didn’t deploy, first-responders said.
Icy patch sends Florida driver to hospital
MINNEISKA, Minn. — A Florida driver lost control on icy U.S. 61 north of Minneiska and was injured when her car rolled into the ditch. Wabasha County deputes summoned an ambulance to take Elizabeth Amalia Lauzurique, 59, of Miami Beach, to the Winona hospital 19 miles away. Deputies described her injuries as sustainable. The accident was about 2:20 p.m. Lauzurique was southbound toward Winona in a 2013 Chevrolet Sonic. The airbag deployed.
Analysis: ICE agent shot Renee Good four times
MINNEAPOLIS — Anti-ICE protester Renee Good, who was killed by a Trump deportation agent two weeks ago, was shot four times. The Minneapolis Fire Department incident report obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune detailed these injuries:
> Two gunshot wounds were on the right side of Good’s chest.
> A third wound was on her left forearm.
> A fourth wound was on the left side of her head with tissue protuding and blood flowing from her left ear.
The report supported witness accounts and video evidence that the Trump agent, Jonathan Ross, used excessive if not unnecessary force. The report, as well as video, cast doubt on repeated Trump claims from the White House that Good had weaponized her vehicle to mow down ICE agents. At most Good clipped Ross, who had positioned himself in her path as she steered away from an escalating street protest. The first Ross blulet was through Good’ windshield. The next three bullets were through her driver’s window as Ross attempted to open the door handle while also wielding a phone-camera and a a handgun. Details from he Fire Department report:
>A 911 caller told a police patcher: “They shot her. She wouldn’t open her car door. Send an ambulance please, ambulance please.”
> At 8:42 a.m. paramedics arrived. They pulled Good from her vehicle with blood on her face and torso.

Trail of bullets. First shot through windshield with Good at the wheel. Next three shots through driver side window.

> Good was not breathing and had an inconsistent and irregular pulse.
> She was carried to a snowbank and then the sidewalk away from an escalating street scene involving ICE agents and protesters.
> Good was still not breathing and had no pulse.
> Paramedics continued to try to save her life inside an ambulance to a hospital.
>> Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation attempts were abandoned at 10:30 a.m.
Earlier: ICE agent ID’d in Minneapolis raid death
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