TAYLORS ALLS, Minn. – Rescuers began land, air and water searches  for a Wisconsin teenager who fell off a rock ledge into the St. Croix River. Missing was DAndrea Sanvig, 18, of Luck, Wisconsin. Chisago County Sheriff Brandon Thyen said the search would continue a second night with \ drones and thermal imagery and will refocus with watercraft and shore crews in the morning. The river is turgid and turbulent with snow melt-off and debris. Already two search boats were damaged, the sheriff said. He advised the general public not to search on or near the water on their own because of dangerous conditions.

Earlier: Hiker slips 75 feet off bluff into St. Croix River

WINONA Minn. – The last person known to have seen Maddi Kingsbury before she disappeared March 31 said he’s been unfairly maligned by rumor and speculation. “I did not have anything to do with Maddi’s disappearance,” said Adam Fravel in a statement issued by Zach Bauer, his attorney. Fravel, 29, and Kinsgbury, 26, lived together with their two children. “I want the mother of my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to be found and brought home safely,”he said. “I want that more than anything. The statement was Fravel’s first public utterance in the case. He made these points:

> “Over the course of the last 12 days my family and I have been subject to a myriad of accusations.”

> “I have cooperated with law enforcement at every turn, including sitting down for multiple interviews with Winona County law enforcement.”

> “Law enforcement advised me on April 2 that they would not recommend that I attend the press conferences or that I assist in the searches due to safety concerns. However, my non-attendance and silence has been inferred by many as a sign of apathy, or worse. That could not be further from the truth. I want Maddi home and for her to be able to be with our two children.”

Fravel ended: “God Bless the Kingsbury family and please bring her home safely.”

Earlier: Surveillance tight on Kingsbury house, van

Earlier: Maddi’s sister recounts the last they talked

Earlier: Earlier: Critical 2-1/-2 hour gap in Maddi Kingsbury case

Earlier: Police mum on Fravel role in Kingsbury probe

NORTHFIELD, Minn. – A St. Olaf student suspected of plotting a mass shooting from his dorm room remains in jail pending bail from his mother in Vermont. The mother has told police she will post bail and take her son home. But the county attorney in Northfield, Kathryn Burbank, doesn’t want Waylon Kurts released without assurances that the family’s collection of high-powered weapons in Vermont is sequestered. The worry, said Burbank, is that Kurts could go home and gain access to the guns. In Kurts’ dorm room in April 6, St. Olaf police found dozens of items that could be used in a mass casualty event, along with maps and notes on doing it – although no guns. Kurts, age 20, a St. Olaf sophomore, was immediately suspended by the college. He’s been in jail since.

Earlier: Mass shooting plan? St. Olaf evidence seized

Earlier:  College student arrested for huge tactical hoard

RUSHFORD, Minn. – A Winona Fire Department medic was called to a woodland search area on Highway 43 between Rushford and Mabel – one of the focus zones in the search for Maddie Kingsbury of Winona, who had been missing 11 days. This was about 10 a.m. The medic provided search assistance but the search didn’t turn up anything.

Earlier: Cops seek suspicious item from Gilmore Creek

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WINONA, Minn. – Almost two weeks after the disappearance of Maddi Kingsbury, the investigation continues. Her townhouse, which she shared with the father of her two pre-school children, remains unoccupied as a possible crime scene. Investigators said the house, on Kerry Drive, is well secured and under continuous video surveillance. Her minivan, which has been linked to her disappearance, remains impounded.

Earlier: Maddi’s sister recounts the last they talked

WINONA, Minn. – A woman shot a taser at an ex-boyfriend in a struggle as she was loading her kids in her car for school. The woman said she had been aware that the man, Derick DeShawn Carpenter, had been prowling around her house on Laird Street. He approached her at the car, she said. An argument ensued. She said he slammed the door on her, injuring a leg. She then shot a taser at him and hit him in a leg. She called 911. Police found Carpenter back at his place. He told them he was at the woman’s house merely to pick up his wallet. The officer told him that he should have asked for a police stand-by. He agreed. Then he was off to jail again, this being his second violation in two days of a judge’s order to stay away from the woman. Did Carpenter want to press charges for being tased? No, he said.

Earlier: Battered woman: Guy ignored restraining order

Earlier: Terrified woman: He held my throat, bit my cheek

WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a Winona man after a woman reported he violated a do-not-contact court order by showing up at her place and offering to drive the kids to school. Arrested later at his place in the 450 East Sanborn was Joshua Kenneth Deppe, 29. The woman said she had asked Deppe several times to leave. After a shouting match, he did. The incident was in the 1050 block of West Wabasha Street.

Deppe. Charged with violating restraining order.

WINONA, Minn. – The Fire Department reported 40 emergency medical calls plus 27 fire calls in recent days:

> Tuesday, April 11: 6  medical calls plus 9 fire calls.

> Monday, April 10: 9 medical calls plus 3 fire calls.

> Sunday, April 9:   6 medical calls plus 5 fire calls.

> Saturday, April 8: 6 medical calls plus 4 fire calls.

> Friday, April 7: 5 medical calls plus 1 fire call.

> Thursday, April 6: 1 medical call plus 3 fire calls.

> Wednesday, April 5: 7 medical calls plus 3 fire calls.

Earlier: Emergency, fire crews 56 calls

WINONA, Minn. – With the ink barely dry on a judge’s restraining order, Derrik Carpenter was back at the door of girlfriend, who the day before had reported being banged up. She called police. He went away. Police found him about 7:10 a.m. He was booked for violating a the court order to stay away.

Earlier: Terrified woman: He held my throat, bit my cheek

BLUFF SIDING, Wis. — The Wisconsin State Patrol dispatched its Technical Reconstruction Unit to figure out what happened in a head-on collision that killed two teenagers and severely injured a third on County Road M. This much is known: A 2007 Chevrolet van with the teenagers and a 2017 Jeep Cherokee crashed at a hilltop Monday. Tere was no visibility either way over the crest. None of the teens in the van had fastened seatbelts. The driver of the Jeep, alone in her vehicle, suffered only minor injuries. The accident was about 6:30 p.m. with the sun low in the sky. One and one-half days after the accident Sheriff Mike Osmond had yet to release any names.

Earlier: Two teens dead from crash up out of Bluff Siding

WINONA, Minn. — The family of Maddie Kingsbury, missing now almost two weeks, described their painful emotions and trials in coping with what’s happened. “We’re private people finding ourselves thrust into the national limelight at the most traumatic time in our lives,” the statement said. “We don’t seek to draw attention to ourselves but, of course, want everyone everywhere to know about Madeline so we can reunite her with her children. From time to time and as we see the need we use social media to encourage and inform the large groups of volunteers helping us search for Madeline.”

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Family statement: “Nothing in life prepares you for this. The disappearance of our daughter and sister has been a waking nightmare with no respite. In the days and nights since Madeline disappeared, the immediate family and extended family have, collectively and individually, been experiencing emotions and trials that someone who has never been suddenly thrust into this horrific situation could ever imagine.

“Eating is a mechanical act we force ourselves to do in order to keep our strength up so we can continue to advocate and search for Madeline. Sleep, if it comes, is fitful and fleeting. I have to think that the only thing that could come close to what we experience is the stress of combat, day after awful day. Initially we were so overwrought that we couldn’t bear to look at each other but couldn’t bear to look away. There were no words we could say to comfort each other and we felt alone and frantic. In the days since the family has circled the wagons and gathered from near and across the world. We will find Madeline. This is our mission and we will not falter.

“We’re private people finding ourselves thrust into the national limelight at the most traumatic time in our lives. We don’t seek to draw attention to ourselves but, of course, want everyone everywhere to know about Madeline so we can reunite her with her children.

“Members of our family and close friends coordinate closely with law enforcement and send out search teams day after day, every day.

“From time to time and as we see the need we use social media to encourage and inform the large groups of volunteers helping us search for Madeline. We’re overwhelmed by the dedication and tangible expressions of love demonstrated by the huge circle of warriors she unknowingly gathered around her her sorority sisters, coworkers at Mayo Clinic and other places, fellow students from her days at Winona State, other moms and her many, many friends, acquaintances and people whose lives she’s touched.

“We will continue to search for Madeline. We will not give up and our family will come out the other side of this forever changed but forever grateful for the tireless dedication of so many helpers – friends and relatives, people in law enforcement, other first responders, social workers, case workers, legal professionals, child advocates and many, many more.”

WINONA, Wis. – Voters defeated a pair of proposals totaling $94 million to update Winona schools. The margins were 2:1 against On the larger proposal, which included air-conditioning for two 1930s-era elementary schools, failed 2,380 to 1,250. A smaller proposal to reconfigure the high school and build a second gym failed 2,378 to 1,227

Earlier: School projects: Two-tier choice for voters

Softball: St. Olaf 5, Saint Mary’s 3

Softball: St. Olaf 9, Saint Mary’s 3, doubleheader

Baseball: LaCrosse Logan 11, Arcadia Raiders 1

WINONA, Minn. – In two sit-down interviews Megan Kingsbury remembered the last time she heard from her “little sister,” now missing almost two weeks and feared to be the victim of foul play. The last time was a text message the morning that Maddi disappeared. Megan had sent a “funny picture” from a family trip to Rhode Island.  Maddi messaged back. “She replied, kind of laughing at the photo, and that was it,” Megan said. “It was the last message that I got from her.” The brief reply, at 8:15 a.m. on March 31, didn’t signal anything amiss. Megan Kingsbury shared remembrances, among others,  in two interviews, with KSTP and KTTC. The interviews were the first comments from the Kingsbury family since a public announcement on April 5 of a $50,000 reward for information to find Maddi.

The last exchange. A photo from a sunny family vacation to Rhode island last summer.

Hope against hope

Megan Kingsbury said the father of Maddi’s two children, 5 and 2, has cooperated with investigators but has not been involved with the family. The family has theories as to what happened and who is to blame, sid Megan.“I think each of us family members have different ideas or thoughts about may have happened, but nothing has been confirmed by law enforcement through any of their investigations.” Megan, at 31 five years Maddi’s senior, used a hopeful present tense in talking about  about Maddi. “Her kids are her life. She doesn’t really take a lot of time for herself, but she’s always kind of happy and looking for new things to do with the kids.”

Explaining family silence

Why did Megan come forward now? “There’s no rule book to tell you how to go about this,” said Megan Kingsbury, who lives and works in Minneapolis. She said the family has been out searching and the past week. It’s been exhausting, she said.  family is amazed by the number of people helping in the search. Last weekend there were 2,600 volunteers  “We don’t want to go home because then we can’t, we feel like we’re not doing anything but even when we’re here in town, we feel kind of helpless.” she said.

Sister Megan. In a shirt with Maddi’s picture at the announcement of the $50,000 reward.

Earlier: Critical 2-1/-2 hour gap in Maddi Kingsbury case

WINONA, Minn. – Firefighters were called to a fire in a flower pot on a third-floor balcony at the 36-unit Maceman Apartments.  This was about 3:25 p.m. The fire had self-extinguished by the time the fire truck rolled up. Advice to the tenant: Don’t dump cigarette butts in plastic flower pots.

Maceman Apartments.  528 Maceman Street. Behind Sugar Loaf Ford.

WINONA, Minn. – Firefighters extinguished an under-the-hood fire in an automobile. Then the engine tied to start a couple times on its own — without the key being in the ignition.  Was us a scene from Stephen King’s “Christine”? Probably not: This may have been angry vehicle but not a super-finned 1958 Plymouth Fury. The firefighters aimed their extinguishers again, full force and unending. Then they waited for everything to cool. Indeed, the engine settled down. What was going on? Nobody could tell for sure. The owner, however, had replaced a fuel line with plastic. This all was about 11:50 a.m. the 500 block of East Third Street in a car parked at a garage.

A distant cousin. Christine lives?

WINONA, Minn. – One man and two women, working as a team, walked out of Fifth Street Liquor with $1,000 worth of booze. The theft was Monday. Chivaz Regal? Or Gut Rot? The proprietor didn’t want to specify.

$1,000 haul. 501 West Fifth Street.

WINONA, Minn. – Police locked up a Winona man after a girlfriend reported being brutalized when an argument escalated at a house near downtown. The woman told police she was pushed against wall by her throat and then thrown on a bed. The guy bit a cheek, she said. He was carrying a knife, she said. Arrested was Derrik Deshawn Carpenter, 27. He was booked about 5:15 a.m. for assault and terroristic threats pending a decision by the county attorney on formal charges. The woman, police said, didn’t appear to have incurred injuries requiring hospitalization. The incident was at a house in the 250 block of Laird Street.

Carpenter. Arrested after girlfriend managed to all 911.