Blue-canopy search craft. Pressing hard against fast and swollen.

Teen on dangerous Angle Rock route

TAYLORS FALLS, Minn. – A hiker lost his footing and fell 75 feet into the raging St. Croix River in Interstate Park. The hiker had wandering off the path on the bluff known as Angle Rock. This was about 6:10 p.m. An extensive search effort was paused at nightfall to resume in the morning.

Swollen search. St. Croix River at its inhospitable worst with rapids, debris.

MINNESOTA CITY, Minn. — A Minnesota City man reported being scammed out of $24,000 in bitcoins online. A sheriff’s investigator said that bitcoin transactions are almost impossible to track. The case remained under investigation. The scam was reported April 6.

WINONA, Minn. – A camper on Prairie Island called 911 during the night that the Mississippi River was on fire. Not so, said deputies who responded. The “fire” was fishermen in a boat using lights to attract carp. Nothing illegal about it – or dangerous, the deputies said. Arguments on whether lights attract fish are legendary in fishing lore. Do green lights work better than white? Do submersible lights work better? Or do lights work at all? And, ask purists, is it a sporting way to go about fishing? No carp were available for interviews.

WINONA, Minn. — Self-deprecating comedian Drew Lynch, who streams  a show called “Dog Vlog,” will visit Winona State University for a performance at 8 p.m., Wednesday. His stream has 2 million followers. His first album, “Concussed,” was released in 2021. Tickets: $5 to $15. Lynch is n a tour with his latest gig, “The Short King Tour”: In Waukegan, Illinois at the Genessee Teater on Tuesday and the Orpheum in Madison, Wisconsin, on Thursday.

^{Lynch. Comedian and actor.}

BLUFF SIDING, Wis. – Two teenagers, a boy 16 and a girl 15, were injured fatally when two cars collided head-on at the crest of a hill on a back road behind Bluff Siding. The girl was dead at the scene. The boy died at the Winona hospital. Buffalo County Sheriff MikeOsmond  did not release the names immediately. A rescue crew from Fountain City used airbags to lift the vehicle to free a third teenager, who was trapped in the wreckage. This boy, 17, was taken seven miles by ambulance to the Winona hospital. The second vehicle, deputies said, was driven by a 51-year-old woman.  She was out of her vehicle with only minor injuries when rescuers arrived. She was the only occupant of her vehicle, deputies said. . The collision was about 6:30 p.m.

Earlier: Accident blocks ridge-top road near Bluff Siding

Baseball: Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Red Hawks 4,Mosinee Indians 1

BLUFF SIDING , Wis. – An accident described as severe prompted Buffalo County deputies to close rural Road M. The accident was about 6:30 p.m. two miles south of County Road YY in the bluffs across from Winona.

WINONA, Minn. – Among first curses to open beginning Thursday: Bridges, Cedar Valley, the Grove, Trempealeau Mountain, Westview. No, the grasx wasn’t quite reen but getting there.

CHETEK, Wis. – The two police officers shot and killed in a traffic sop Saturday were acting on a request to check the welfare of the driver. Glenn Douglas Perry, state investigators said. Perry, age 50, of New Auburn, died in a hospital shortly after the shootout. Dead at the scene were police officers Emily Breidenbach, 32, of Chetek, and Hunter Scheel, 23, of Cameron. . Perry had a court record of misdemeanors for disorderly conduct and battery in 2015 and 2020.

Perry. Had been wanted on a warrant regarding erratic behavior.

Breidenbach. With Chetek police four years.  Earlier with Stoughton police in Dane County.

Scheel. With the Cameron police one year. Graduated from Law Enforcement Academy in December.

Earlier: Mourners share grief over two police deaths

540 feet over Winona. “Hang on. We’re coming.” Image: Winona Police Department

No slippery slope metaphor here: The real thing

WINONA Minn. – T two people trying to rescue a pair of stranded dogs below the Garvin Heights overlook were themselves stranded and had to be rescued. Firefighters trained in rope rescues hoisted them all, one at a time, to safety. This was about 12:30 p.m.

Heading home. At their limit, these anglers steer to the landing at the Prairie Island Road landing near the Winona fleeting harbor. Look through the trees, left and rught, you’ll see one of a couple dozen high-riding barges awaiting their grain cargoes. Image: Steve Lunde

Disappointment perhaps:  Weekend back to 40s

WINONA, Minn. – The National Weather Service forecast afternoons in he low 80s Tuesday and Wednesday, then a retreat on the weekend to the 40s. Trees are budding. Daffodils are blossoming.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – An “outside actor” was to blame for suspicious activity in the Rochester Schools technology system, said an expert brought in to assess the problem. The system, including learning tools, has been dead four days. Doug Levin, an expert on cybersecurity threats, said no evidence had been found that the breach was for financial fraud or identity theft.  He stopped short of using the term “ransomware.” With ransomware a shyster invades a computer system, locks it up, and then demands ransom in exchange for codes to unlock the system and get it going again. Classes were cancelled Monday after the invasion was discovered.

Earlier: Classes cancelled due to computer mess

Earlier: School computers compromised: External attack?

High-pressure water stream. Aimed at burning house in 500 block of Caledonia Street. Image: LaCrosse Fire Department

Dog rescued, revived with resusictation

LACROSSE, Wis. — One person was taken to a hospital from a burning house on the South Side. The person’s name and condition were not released by the hospital. A second person and a dog were rescued. The dog required resuscitation but came out of it OK. The fire, reported about 5 a.m., severely damaged the house. At one point firefighters were driven back by heavy flames and heat. One firefighter was treated at the scene for an injury. It took five hours to extinguish the last embers.

Hundreds of pails. Black maples and birches thriving streamside share their sweet bounty as their sap rises from winter dormancy. Image: Steve Lunde

Another reason for Amish to welcome spring

TAYLOR, Wis. – The Amish in Jackson County have waited all winter for spring temperatures to be fluctuating above and below freezing. That’s when the sap flows in the black maples and birches in wetlands in the Trempealeau River headwaters. Amish collect the colorless sap in plastic pails, boil it down, and lather it over pancakes.Being entrepreneurial, they also sell it. A pint typically retail roadside, in shops and online $7 to $8.

Lock and Dam 5. Could this be where the carp invasion ends? Just above Bass Camp.

$16.8 million to design, install, operates system

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota House environment committee is examining funding to stanch the upriver invasion of dreaded silver carp at Minnesota City if not first at Fountain City. Two similar bills, one co-sponsored by Gene Pelowski, a Winona Democrat, would fund University of Minnesota researchers to study state-of-the-art possibilities.to impede the carp. One $16.8 million would cover installation and operation of a deterrent system at the pair of Lock and Dam 5s. These dams span the river between Winona and Fountain City and between Minnesota City and Buffalo City. This spring the carp were found for the first time in Pool 6, which the backed-up Mississippi River behind Lock and Dam 6 at Trempealeau.

Earlier: Any new tricks to corral bad carp? Still looking

Earlier: Invasion of dreaded “flying carp” reaches Winona

CASHTON, Wis. – A LaFarge woman was killed when a horse pulling buggy was startled by a motorcycle and bolted, sending the buggy into the motorcycle’s path. Kim Oium, 54, was ejected from cycle and died. The driver, Joseph Oium, 23, was hurt, but Vernon County deputies said he declined medical treatment. Two juveniles in the buggy were unhurt. The accident was on Sandhill Road 10 miles east of Cashton about 4:30 p.m..

MINNESOTA CITY, Minn. – Three cars hit a boulder in the south-bound lanes of Highway 61 north of Minnesota City. A fourth vehicle was then hit and rolled into the ditch. One driver, Laurie Jean Jacobsen, 67, of Minneiska, was taken to the Winona hospital with non-life threatening injuries. No one else was hurt. This was about 7:55 p.m. In the cars:

> 2021 Kia Soul: Adrian Manuel Marin, 22, of Woodbury, the driver.

> 2018 Chevy Equinox: Robert Joseph Slavin, 73, of Rollingstone, the driver, and his passenger, Nora Jean Slavin, 71, of Rollingstone.

> 2015 Subaru Forester: Daniel Mark Kleinertz, 51, of Stoddard, Wisconsin, the driver, and his passenger, Ann Christine Recor-Kleinert, 52, of La Crosse.

> 2019 Nissan Murano: Laurie Jean Jacobsen, 67, of Minneiska, the driver.

RED WING, Minn. – Rescuers brought a man, woman and child down from the He Mni Can-Barn monolith after they were trapped by shifting mud and ice. They were shaken but unhurt. Rescuers reached the family on the northside of the bluff, which overlooks the Mississippi River at the edge of downtown. They were stranded on a hiking trail across a steep slope. This was about 2 p.m. The incident prompted the Red Wing Fire Department to urge caution while hiking the bluffs because conditions can change quickly in the spring.

Slippery rescue. It took rescuers 40 minutes on the slippery trail to reach and extract a stranded family.

WINONA Minn. – A rescue crew from the Fire Department used a pike pole to retrieve a suspicious item from Gilmore Creek just behind the Gundersen Clinic in the 1100 block of Highway 61. Police, desperate for clues in the disappearance of Maddi Kingsbury 10 days earlier, had called the fire unit. The item was unrelated, police concluded.

Earlier: Police dig into suspicious Prairie Island mound