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
Do naked ladies get goose bumps

Cold winter day at the Four Mile. The 2NY club, formerly the Four Mile, opens Wednesday at 7 p.m. for an early start on the weekend trade. Perhaps things will be warmer by then. At Bluff Siding, 2NY is the only such establishment within in 50 miles of Winona.
Bishop prioritizes peace over right, wrong
WINONA, Minn. — The Winona-Rochester Catholic bishop, Robert Barron, called on President Trump and Minnesota ‘s government leadership to back off escalating tensions that already have claimed lives. To Trump, the bishop said to limit his deportation agents only to rounding up undocumented people. To Governor Tim Walz and he mayors of Minneaplisa and St. Paul, he bishop said: “Stop stirring up rensentment against officers endeavoring to enforce the laws of the country.”
Earlier: Miller to Trump, Walz: Let’s work it out
Rochester telethon nets $728,000
ROCHESTER, Minn. — A 20-hour telethon on television station KTTC raised $728,000 for cancer research. The event, in its 73rd year, is the nation’s oldest locally produced television telethon.
News summary at week’s end: January 17, 2026
ICE INCURSION: Trump prepares airborne troops for Minnesota duty
ICE INCURSIN: Governor readies Minnesota Guard for street duty
ICE INCURSION: Expert: Trump saps military for Minnesota duty
ICE INCURSION: Military lawyers to Minnesota to ease caseload
ICE INCURSION: ICE agent ends scuffle, shoots man in leg
ICE INCURSION: Judge to ICE: Lay off the tear gas
ICE INCURSION: Miller to Trump, Walz: Let’s work it out
GOVERNANCE: Winona march proceeds despite hostile weather
POLITICS: Buttigieg at open-microphone LaCrosse forum
CRIME: Lewiston man charged with beating mom-to-be
He says her music too loud; ruckus followed
WINONA, Minn. — Police arrested a Winona man who reportedly had been yelling at a neighbor’s door and banging so hard that, despite the door being dead-bolted, she was afraid for her life. She described the door as shaking on its hinges. She was shaking still herself in recounting the episode to police. The man’s beef, she said, was her loud music. When offices rapped at the man’s door at the next unit down the hall, they said he was still enraged and pounding on the wall and screaming at the woman: “Fuckin’ ‘ho” and “Eat my gun.” He came out for police e but was belligerent and sputtering obscenities, they said: He refused officers’ commands. When he wouldn’t calm himself and kneel, they subdued hm with a stun gun. At jail Mickel Jeffrey Frisch, age 32, was booked for disorderly conduct and obstructing justice. No gun was found. This was about 11 p.m.

Frisch. Charged with acting out a complaint over a neighbor’s taste in music and particularly the volume. At newer apartment building in the 600 block of Mankato Avenue.
College scores
Basketball (men): Winona State 79, Jamestown 70
Basketball (men): Winona State 76, Jamestown 66
Basketball (women): St. Catherine 68, Saint Mary’s 61
Hockey (men): UW-River Fals 6, Saint Mary’s 4
Hockey (women): Saint Mary’s 1, Adolphus 1
Minnesota scores
Basketball (boys): St. Charles Saints 67, Rochester Math Science Dragons 41
Basketball (girls): Dover-Eyota Eagles 55, St. Charles Saints 32
Trump prepares airborne troops for Minnesota duty
WASHINGTON —President Donald Trump has put 1,500 active-duty U.S. soldiers have on standby for possible deployment into Minnesota. Such a deployment would be a rare and possibly illegal use of the U.S. Insurrection Act of 1807, which was intended. to put down locl revolts in extraordinary circumstances. Sources said the active-duty soldiers would come from ttwo battalions of the 11th Airborne Division based in Alaska. The assigned mission of the 11th Airborne is to deter aggression from China. In Washington ABC News quoted said a Pentagon official confirming reports about Trump’s plan but emphasized it doesn’t mean they necessarily will be deployed: “We are preparing options.” Trump has grown increasingly agitated at citizen resistance in Minesota to his massive arrests of immigrants with rogue tactics.

11th Airborne. Home is Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson at Anchorage. Specialties: include arctic warfare, airborne operations, and urban warfare.
Governor readies Minnesota Guard for street duty
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Governor Tim Walz activated units of the Minnesota National Guard to maintain order amid citizen resistance to President Trumps’s expanding campaign, now with 3,000 agents to find, arrest and deport immigrants. Earlier, as Trump kept bulking up his federal forces in the state, Walz had placed the Guard on alert — a preliminary step toward mobilization. Now with mobilization, the Guard is staging to support local police. Details on which Guard units have been mobilized were not announced. The Guard, all tolled, has 13,000 members, mostly part-time citizen-soldiers until mobilized into full-time status.

Walz. When first enlisted in Guard. At retirement a command sergeant major, the military’s top enlisted rank with significant administrative, management and supervisory duties.
Winona march proceeds despite hostile weather

1.8-mile loop. Marchers started the Winona High Schol on Lake Winona and proceeded on a highly visible lakeshore bike along busy U.S. Highway 61. Tuned left on the Huff Street causeway, in background. Huff is the main gateway into the city.
Organizers: Protest driven by rough Trump tactics
WINONA, Minn. — A couple hundred demonstrators braved a frigid afternoon to march around Lake Winona’s west arm to protest President Trump’s terror brigades that are roaming the state for people to deport. March organizers acknowledged disappointment at the turnout. As many as 1,400 demonstrators participated in earlier Winona protests, all in less hostile weather. Organizers said they weighed disagreeable weather — below zero and windy — against the urgency to address Trump’s escalating provocations, disregard for civil rights, cruelty and indecency.
Lewiston man charged with beating mom-to-be
LEWISTON, Minn. — A 15-week pregnant woman told deputies that she had been manhandled, thrown to the floor, and held down on her stomach. This, she said, was during a domestic argument at a First Street South apartment. The woman, age 25, said she didn’t need medical attention. Deputies arrested Jose Javier Macuixtle-Sanchez, age 23, at the apartment about 4:55 a.m.. Macuixtle-Sanchez was already on probation for an unrelated crime, deputies said. They reported that alcohol probably was a factor. Macuixtle-Sanchez was booked for domestic assault and interference with an emergency callfor help The woman said the assault began with her hair being pulled. To get away, she said she locked herself in a bedroom. Deputies put the woman in touch with a women’s issue advocate.
College scores
Basketball (men): Northern State of South Dakota 84, Winona State 80
Basketball (women): Northern State of South Dakota 69, Winona State 47
Hockey (men): Saint Mary’s 8, Beloit 1
Hockey (women): Saint Mary’s 1, Adophus 1
Minnesota scores
Basketball (boys): Austin Packers 75, Winona Winhawks 69
Basketball (girls): Winona Winhawks 69, Austin Packers 56
Harmony Fillmore Central Falcons 53
Hockey (girls): Fond du Lac Cardinals 5, Winona Winhawks 2
Wisconsin prep
Basketball (boys): Whitehall Norse 69, Mondovi Buffaloes 53
Basketball (boys): Cochrane-Fountain City Pirates 67, Alma Center Lincoln Hornets 55
Basketball (boys): Galesville Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Red Hawks 53, Hammond St. Croix Central Panthers 43
Basketball (girls): Arcadia Raiders 70, Viroqua Blackhawks 35
Basketball (girls): Onalaska Luther Knights 69, Galesville Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Red Hawks 32
Hockey (girls): Fond du Lac Cardinals 5, Winona Winhawks 2
Buttigieg at open-microphone LaCrosse forum

Open collar, no oxfords. And flanked at four corners by security detail. Now a stay-at-home dad. Earlier U.S. transportation secretary; mayor of South Bend, Indiana; and a 2020 presidential candidate, although he didn’t survive the primaries.
Theme on people’ s minds: Healthcare
LACROSSE, Wis. — A leading figure in national Democratic politics, Pete Buttigieg, called for improving healthcare for Americans — not the drastic cuts advocated by President Trump. About 1,000 people crammed the lower ballroom of the La Crosse Center, where Buttigieg led a townhall forum. It was mostly a listening session. The name of Derrick Van Orden, the Republican in Congress from western Wisconsin, was narily invoked. Nor was he present. But, political pundits have noted: With Buttigieg’s pending high-profile LaCrosse visit, Van Orden recognized his record on healthcare would be in heightened public view, ]he switched gears. Two weeks ago he voted with Democrats to extend popular Obamacare health insurance subsidies three years , this in hopes to blunt a vulnerability in his 2026 re-election campaign. At the LaCrosse townhall was Rebecca Cooke, a Democrat who lost 51% to 48% Van Ordern in 2024 and who is running against him again reiterated her healthcare concerns:
“Our healthcare system is broken. I’ve already seen two major hospitals close. With the passage of the reconciliation bill, we’re likely to lose more in this region. Rural hospitals already struggled to stay open because of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates, and now that burden will double.”
Introducing himself at the townhall, Buttigieg spoke broadly on issues:
“Things are not going well in the United States of America. Socially, we are at each other’s throats. Economically, we are in such a different place from what the American promise represents. And then there’s the matter of our politics: Our government, which is so profoundly broken and has been for a long time.”

Buttigieg. These days frequently on the national Democratic speaking circuit.
Verbatim
Buttigieg: His advice for personal effectivenss in rouboed times: “The only antidote to politics of fear is politics of courage.They are doing everything they can to pull us apart. Let’s do everything we can to bring us together. It’s 10 times more powerful to talk to somebody you know because that’s much more likely to break through.”
Judge to ICE: Lay off the tear gas
MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge ordered federal deportation agents to respect the right of citizens to protest. Protesting and to do so in public is a constitutionally guaranteed right of citizenship — a civil right, said Judge Kate Menendez. The judge ruled in a fast-track case filed b by Minnesota activists. The activists listed a pattern of violent aggression. The aggression included ICE lobbing tear gas at protesters, beatings and physical assaults, and the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good. Judge Menendez was specific that Trump agents cannot detain drivers and passengers in vehicles when there is no reasonable suspicion they are obstructing or interfering with the officers. Safely following agents “at an appropriate distance does not, by itself, create reasonable suspicion to justify a vehicle stop,” the judge said. Menendez also barred agents from arrest ig people without probable cause or reasonable suspicion the person has committed a crime or was obstructing or interfering with the activities of officers. Menendez meanwhile has other cases on her Minnesota docket.
Earlier: Judge orders Trump justify Minnesota “surge”
Earlier: ICE agent ends scuffle, shoots man in leg
Earlier: Minnesota demands Trump to retreat

Whipple federal building. The largest Minnesota citizen protests have been at the regional headquarters of the U.S. Homeland Security Department at Fort Snellling at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers south of Minneapolis. The fortress is the control center for massive Trump round-ups of immigrants for deportation. The Whipple building has been a busy place. In response to citizen resistance, Trump has ordered successive waves of federal agents for Minnesota crackdowns. Their number has reached 3,000 — four times more than the city police departments of Minneapolis and St. Paul combined,

Menendez. Minneapolis-based federal judge whose docket includes charges of heavy-handed Trump tactics.
Narcan to the rescue; overdose victim recovers
WINONA, Minn. — Police saved a 38-year-old woman from a drug overdose with the opioid nasal spray antidote Narcan. She recovered on-site and declined hospitalization This was about 12:35 p.m. in the 450 block of Grand Street on the West Side.
Expert: Trump saps military for Minnesota duty
ATLANTA, Ga. — A law professor at Emory University said the nation’s military is being served badly by a shift of JAG lawyers from their assigned bases to go to Minnesota for the chaos resulting from President Trump’s Operation Metro Surge. “There are not many JAGs, but there are over one million members of the military, and they all need legal support,” said Mark Nevitt, himself is a former JAG officer. Nevitt was asked by CNN to assess an order from U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to his generals and admirals to identify 40 JAGs for Minnesota duty. Sources told CNN that 25 JAGs already have been told to pack their bags for Minnesota.
Verbatim
The Pentagon didn’t announce the interagency transfer of miitary legal resources to Minnesota. Pressed by CNN for an explanation, a spokesperson said: “JAGs regularly provide crucial legal support nationwide and bring their unique skills and dedication of our America’s service members supporting our interagency partners as they deliver justice, restore order, and protect the American people.” Previously, it’s been learned, the Pentagon sent a detail of 20 JAGs to Washington, D.C., and later 20 others to Memphis for a similar occupation.
Walmart: Now he wanted his own security cam
WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man who had been banned earlier from Walmart was back. Store detectives called the cops. Nearby officers spotted Shawn Michael Fort, age 34. As they approached. they said, Fort threw a box in the weeds. Irony of ironies: The manufacturer-wrapped box contained a security camera. Walmart placed the value at $79.
Miller to Trump, Walz: Let’s work it out
WINONA, Minn. — The influential State Senator Jeremy Miller offered to mediate growing tensions between President Trump and Minnesota’s state leadership. Miller faulted both sides citing a lack accountability. Neither Trump nor Governor Tim Walz took up Miller’s offer, at least not immediately. In recent days Trump has beefed up his heavily armed deportation force in Minnesota, now 3,000 agents, and Walz activated the state’s National Guard. Said Miller: “It’s clear that the current approach is not working.”
” I’m offering to sit down with President Trump and Governor Walz to discuss ideas, find areas of agreement, and ultimately come up with solutions to hold the fraudsters and criminals accountable without the turmoil. We need to figure out a way to do this while not negatively affecting the law-abiding Minnesotans who truly need and rely on government services.”

Miller. A Republican. First elected 2010. Leaving office in January or more family time and time and his family businesses.
Verbatim
Miller: “There has been too much blaming and too many excuses, but no answers, no accountability, and definitely not enough cooperation. We can all speculate to the moon and back, I certainly have been, but at the end of the day, the state and federal government need to work together to hold the bad players accountable because it’s clear that the current approach is not working.”
Minnesota scores
Basketball (boys): LaCrosse Central RiverHawks 78, Winona Winhawks 53
Basketball (boys): Winona Cotter/Winona Hope 55, Wabasha-Kellogg Falcons 47
Basketball (boys): Lewiston-Altura Cardinals 74, Caledonia Warriors 67
Basketball (boys): St. Charles Saints and LaCrescent-Hokah Lancers
Basketball (girls): Caledonia Warriors 68, Lewiston-Altura Cardinals 44
Basketball (girls): Winona Cotter/Winona Hope 59, Wabasha-Kellogg Falcons 28
Basketball (girls): St. Charles Sanits 64, LaCrescent-Hokah Lancers 50
Wisconsin prep
Basketball (boys): Galesville Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Red Hawks and Hammond St. Croix Central Panthers
Basketball (boys): Galesville Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau Red Hawks 81, Viroqua Blackhawks 42
Basketball (girls): Blair-Taylor Wildcats 60, Osseo-FairchildThunder 21
Basketball (girls): Eleva-Stum Cardinals 51, Independence Indees 35
Basketball (boys): Arcadia Raiders 69, Tomah Timberwolves 40
Lake Park scare: Bad-threaded propane tank
WINONA, Minn. — Firefighters responded to a leaking one-pound propane cylinder attached to a small heater in front of Lake Park Lodge. As bystanders watched at a distance, the crew, wearing gloves, unscrewed the propane cylinder from the heater. Conclusion: The cylinder had been cross-threaded onto the heater connection and frosted over. No one was injured.
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