WINONA, Minn. – In its first compliance check of the season, Winona police found six licensed liquor establishments failed to card a minor who was posing as an undercover agent. Ten establishments did card. In non-compliance with the state law limiting bar service to patrons 21 and older were:

> Broken World Records, 265 East Third Street.

> Fast Eddie’s, 500 West Fifth Street.

> Mulligans Pub, 219 East Third Street.

> Poots Tavern, 579 East 7th Street.

> Red Men Club, 176 West Third Street.

> Sloppy Joes, 526 East 3rd Street.

The goal of compliance checks, said Deputy Police Jeff Jay Rasmussen, was partly to develop data on how to respond to establishments that serve minors. Establishments that passed were issued certificates of compliance. They were:

> The BrickYard, 579 East Third Street.

> Cornerstone Bar, 501West Fourth Street.

> E Bs Corner, 700 West Fifth Street.

> Hei N Low Tap, 529 East Seventh Street.

> Island City Brewing, 65 East Front Street.

> Luckys On Third,107 West 3rd Street.

> Mankato Bar, 477 Mankato Avenue.

> Market Street Tap, 117 Market Street.

> 929 Beer House & Grill, 929 East Eighth Street.

> No Name Bar, 252 E Third Street.

> Port 507, 128 West Second Street.

One bar, Handy Corner, at 700 East Fifth Street, was closed. A compliance check was cancelled at Gabbys Bar & Lounge, at 179 East Third Street, because the bartender knew the undercover minor.

Earlier: 10 Winona bars pass compliance check; 6 fail

WINONA, Minn. – A worker at Westgate Bowl laid his car keys on a counter as he went about his duties. A while later the keys were gone. So too was his 2006 Toyota Corolla outside. Police said surveillance video showed a man picking up the keys and leaving with another man and two women. Another camera showed the men taking off in the white Corolla. License plates: 749WUZ. This all happened within a one-hour window on the late shift. The Westgate employee hitched a ride home

WINONA, Minn. – Overnight rain was expected to have a cool trip on its way down to the ground, turning to snow. There may be lightning and thunder too. Then, for Sunday through Monday, the National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Watch. Expect bands of snow as much as eight inches and winds of 25 mph. Most areas, however, will show little snowfall

Tennis (men): Wartburg 8, Saint Mary’s 1

Tennis (women): Mary 4, Winona State 2

Tennis (women): Saint Mary’s and Wartburg, cancelled

MILLSTON Wis. – The Wyman Lake fire was brought 99% control at 3,100 acres, the state Natural Resources Department said. Residents who had been evacuated to Black River Falls and Warrens were allowed to return. U.S. Highway 12 between Millston and Black River Falls was reopened. The wildfire apparently started on the northern end of Fort McCoy and spread quickly through steep and uneven topography across the Jackson-Monroe county line. Fire crews were expected to work overnight to keep the fire contained and watch for flare-ups.

Earlier: Wildfire forces evacuation at Lake Wyman

Evacuation zone. Arcadia Avenue between Smothers Road, Millston Road and Abbey Avenue to Blueberry Road, including Archer Road and Arrowhead Road. Image: Jackson County Sheriff’s Office

WINONA, Minn. – A Wisconsin man was arrested after a woman reported being attacked in the 250 block of Orrin Street on the West End. John Joseph Carino 30, of Cochrane, was booked on a domestic assault charge. The woman told police that she was pushed backwards and fell to the floor. Her assailant, she said, held a clenched fist in her face, punched her with his other hand, and said “I’m going to fucking kill you.” He then left, she said. Police reported the woman’s neck was swollen red.

Carino. Arrested a few blocks away.

Dodging rain drops. Afternoon drizzle dampened the Flood Run this year. Even so, bikers, thousands of them, the made their ritual Mississippi TRiver circuit. Image: Steve Lunde

Bar treats: Brats, wings, beer, indoor plumbing

CENTERVILLE, WIs.  — Thousands of bikers, mostly from the Twin Cities, headed downriver to Winona and LaCrosse and back over the weekend, and also up the St. Croix, in their annual Flood Run. Taverns along the way sponsored the charity  event, including the Jailhouse Saloon on Highway 35 in Wisconsin near Centerville. This was the 46th year since bikers motored to Winona to assist with a devastating flood. They’ve done it ever since, flood or no flood, hell or high water

Earlier: Hear the rumble yet? Bikers coming en masse

Earlier: To biker, drivers: Be alert, be safe

Earlier: A biker bar with its own Flood Run theme

Earlier: As expected, tiny Nelson again a biker haven

WINONA, Minn. – Because of bad weather moving in, volunteers delayed a weekend foot and horseback search for Madeline Kingsbury, the Winona woman now missing more than two weeks. When weather clears, the plan is to focus o hard-to-ccess terrain in three areas:

> Mississippi River shoreline.

> The Trempealeau wildlife refuge across he Mississippi from Winona..

> The Rushford area along the Winona-Fillmore county line.

Earlier: Kingsbury child custody battle erupts

MONTPELIER, Vt. – Vermont State Police officials said they were aware of the arrest of a Montpelier man at St. Olaf College in Minnesota on suspicion of plotting an armed massacre. In a prepared statement in conjunction with the Vermont Department of Corrections, State Police said they were monitoring Waylon Kurts’ custody status in Minnesota. Kurts, 20, has told authorities in Minnesota that he owns an assault rifle at home with his family in Vermont. Kurts, apparently has no weapons Minnesota, but authorities have been concerned he might get a weapon if he’s released on bail from jail in Minnesota. Prosecutors in Rice County, home to St. Olaf, have asked the Kurts family in Vermont to turn over all their guns to police. The family is familiar with firearms and trap-shoots with shotguns. The family says none of its guns are missing from home in Vermont.

Earlier: St. Olaf limbo: Will Vermont mom give up guns?

Earlier: Mass shooting plan? St. Olaf evidence seized

Earlier:  College student arrested for huge tactical hoard

Kurts profile

Kurts is a graduate of public schools in Montpelier. He was a member of the school’s cross-country team. His aunt, the politically active Zephyr Teachout, also was a championship cross-country runner in college. The family has roots in Vermont. Not much is known of Kurts’ own politics. As a seventh-grader he traveled to the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan on Central Asia. His family is political. His mother, Woden Teachout, has written two books on politics — “Slow Democracy,” co-authored with Susan Clark, and “Capture the Flag: A Political History of American Patriotism.” His grandmother is Mary Miles Teachout, a former county judge who retired in 2022. His aunt is Zephyr Teachout, a progressive Democrat who finished second to Andrew Cuomo in a New York gubernatorial primary. In 2011 she participated in the 59-day left-wing populist Occupy Wall Street demonstration. A strong Bernie Sanders supporter, she got into hot water when in 2020 she said Joe Biden had “a big corruption problem.” She later apologized to Biden for the remark.

Kurts. In jail in Northfield. Has been suspended from St. Olaf College. Wants to go home to Vermont.

Rainy days ahead. The umbrellas showed on their annual schedule on the Kelly and Mike Beckman mailbox oak tree on Highway 16 downstream from Houston. Lovely pastels.

WINONA, Minn. – A man told police he zipped into a bar for a beer  — for only 15 minutes, maybe half an hour — and came out and discovered his car gone. He had left the key in ignition. This was about 1:35 p.m.

WINONA, Minn. – A Preston man showed a blood-alcohol level of 0.23%, triple the legal limit, when stopped by police walking in the downtown bar district with an open container. Mason Bryan Berg, 20, looked impaired, officers said. They took him in. This was about 12:20 a.m.

Baseball: Winona State 17, Concordia of St. Paul 13

Baseball: Macalester 5, Saint Mary’s 3

Baseball: Macalester 10, Saint Mary’s 4, doubleheader

Softball: UM-Duluth 10, Winona State 0

Softball: UM-Duluth 6, Winona State 5, doubleheader

Softball: Saint Mary’s 8, St. Scholastica 0

Softball: Saint Mary’s 8, St. Scholastica 0, doubleheder

Softball: UW-LaCrosse 3, UW-Platteville 1

Softball: UW-LaCrosse 2, UW-Platteville 1, doubleheader

Baseball (boys): River Falls Wildcats 16, Rochester Marshall Rockets 0

Baseball: River Falls Wildcats 16, Rochester John Marshall Rockets 0

A stream of sunshine. This experimental daffodil bed turned out so well that a companion bed is being considered for next spring. It’s been christened Jerry Engler Terrace for the Winona master gardener. Image: Steve Lunde

Steam sizzles from upper floor. As fire crews tried to drench the fire from above with high-pressure ladder nozzles. Image: LaCrosse Fire Department

Cause of stubborn fire under investigation

LACROSSE, Wis. – Firefighters streamed water from aerial trucks onto a house for 2-1/2 hours before it was out. The house was declared unlivable, at least for now, from fire, smoke and water damage. The family escaped before firefighters arrived. That was about 3 p,m. The house was in the upscale Brackenwood Court neighborhood off County Road B southeast of LaCrosse.

WILSON, Minn. –Two pickup trucks, coming different directions, collided on Highway 43 at the Intestate 90 interchange. The 16-year-old driver of a 2010 Chevrolet Silverado as taken 10 miles to the Winona hospital with survivable injuries. He was southbound. The State Patrol declined to release the teen’s name or hometown. The other driver, Craig Alan Mohlis, 61, of Glencoe, in a Ford 150, was unhurt. This was about 4:45 p.m.

MILLSTON, Wis. – People living in the Wyman Lake area were evacuated as a wildlife raged out of control. They were taken 12 miles to the Lunda Center in Black River Falls and the Warrens Community Center. No injuries were reported. With the fire at 500 acres and spreading, three structures already had been damaged and one shed destroyed. Meanwhile, U.S. Highway 12, which runs alongside Interstate 94, was closed for the state Natural Resource Department and U.S. Army crews from Fort McCoy to move in bulldozers and other heavy equipment. The Army had been engaged in prescribed burns at Fort McCoy’s northern reaches.

Earlier: Wildfire danger as high as it gets

BROOKYN CENTER, Minn. –A Brooklyn Center man was attacked and injured fatally by dogs in his backyard. Killed was Dezmond Ray Thomas Trawick, age 22. Police said that most of his clothing had been ripped off and he had extensive bites. He was intubated at the scene and taken to a hospital, where he died. Police had been called about 12:15 p.m. to the 5700 block of Halifax. They deployed less-lethal rounds, which hit one dog. The dogs, all pit bulls, ran off. Trawick didn’t own the dogs but was taking care of them for the day. The dogs were rounded up and quarantined.

Trawick. A family photo.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Rochester man who ignored doctor’s orders and checked out of a Rochester hospital on his own has been found dead in a nearby garage. Thomas McElroy, 43, had been seen last on December 27 about 4:30 a.m. He went into the streets not dressed for the weather. He had been missing 127 days.

McElroy. Apparently sought shelter in garage near Kutzky Park.