WELCH, Minn. — A Wisconsin woman was injured, albeit not critically, when the pickup in which she was riding veered off U.S. Highway 61 west of Red Wing and rolled into a ditch. Elizabeth Charlene Turman, 36, of Dalton in Green County, Wisconsin, was taken to a hospital. The driver, Danny Lee Cartwright, 41, of LaCrosse, was unhurt. The accident was about 6:20 p.m. near the 224th Street intersection. The pickup, 2022 Chevrolet Silverado, was southbound toward Red Wing.

STOCKTON, Minn. — A woman was beaten at the Hickory Lane trailer court and required emergency room care for cuts and swelling. Her live-in companion had left already when deputies arrived. They later located Adam Lee Board, age, 34, in his car.  He was charged with domestic assault. Deputies were first called to the trailer house about 2 p.m. for what a caller said was a medical situation. Once on-site, deputies suspected domestic assault. An ambulance was called for the 37-year-old woman. She was taken 19 miles to the Winona hospital

Board. Booked at jail 5-1/2 hours after assault report.

ST. PAUL, Minn — Convicted Winona murderer Adam Fravel wants a new trial. In a 48-page document, his attorneys claim procedural errors by the judge and misconduct by prosecutors in Fravel’s 2024 trial for the death of Maddi Kingsbury, who was the mother their children. Fravel doesn’t have anything to lose: He’s serving a life sentence without possibility of parole. Among arguments for a new trial were allegations that:

> The judge abused her discretions by admitting hearsay into evidence that “unfairly tapped into mass hysteria.”

> A domestic abuse expert was allowed to testify about commonalities in domestic abuse cases that were so shallow as to be meaningless.

> The medical examiner who conducted Kingsbury’s autopsy offered inadmissible opinions while testifying.

 > Prosecutors erred in closing arguments by telling jurors they could reach a verdict even with lingering doubts.

Fravel’s attorney, public defender Greg Scanlan, conceded in the new documents that the jury’s 2024 verdict for second-degree murder without intent was proven: Three other convictions, however — for second-degree murder and first-degree murder — merit re-evaluation. The appeal process will take a while. Attorneys for both sides will continue to make arguments in documents back and forth before final arguments to the state Supreme Court.  These kinds of appeals can take months, sometimes years.

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ALMA, Wis. — A Winona man with a long rap sheet pleaded guilty to a 2024 bar shooting that critically wounded another Winona man. The plea by Damien Bryant Winn, age 41, cleared the way for a pre-sentence hearing. Judge Clark Thomas scheduled sentencing itself for early December. The shooting was at George’s Lounge across the Wisconsin state line from Winona. The place was still packed at closing time on a weekend night. Winn was arrested the next day on a Winona Street. Winn now has been in the Buffalo County jail in Alma 17 months in lieu of $250,000 bail. He is charged with attempted homicide and felonious possession of a firearm. Conviction could mean as many as 60 years in prison plus additional time on the weapons charge.

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Back at dawn. The tractor will still be there in the morning to finish the job in this field near Frenchville in central Trempealeau County. Image: Steve Lunde

Soccer (women): Winona State 4, Jamestown 0

Soccer (women): Saint Mary’s 5, Beloit 0

Soccer (women): UW-LaCrosse 5, Concordia of Moorhead 0

Riverside in Wabasha. As a Wabasha denizen rests a spell on a bench at the National Eagle Center, the Dakota chief Wapasha has a fountain bubbling knee-high at his side and the mighty Mississippi in the background.  The post-modern fellow with yellow pigtails will be moving along as soon as the town’s  SeptOctober Fest is over next weekend. Chief Wapasha will stick around. Image: Andy Frank

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WINONA, Minn. — A career college administrator, Ashlesha Pawar, has been named Minnesota State Southeast ’s director for institutional effectiveness. Pawar’s job: To collect data for curricular and other decision-making. She comes from Purdue University Northwest. Earlier she was at Western Georgia University, University of Wisconsin Parkside, University of Mary Washington, and Luther College. Pawar, age 37, holds a master degree in information systems from UW-Parkside and master’s in business from the University of Pune.

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Pawar. On duty  in August. Salary: $121,800.

On a Root River farm. A mild mostly cloudy Sunday was forecast. Image: Kelly Beckman.

WINONA, Minn. — A man flagged down a passing police officer about somebody driving off with his car overnight. The man said he had allowed a homeless acquaintance to sleep in the car but not to drive. Now, about 8:20 a.m. in the 700 block of West Broadway Street, the car was gone. Police found the vehicle shortly thereafter with Daniel Nathan Langhans, 56, nearby. Police quoted Langhans as knowing nothing about any stolen vehicle. That, however, didn’t explain the car’s keys in his pants, police said. Nor, they added, did it explain the surveillance video of him driving up, parking the vehicle, and climbing out.

Langhans. Charged with auto theft, driving with cancelled license.

WAUMANDEE, Wis — Two people were injured seriously in a single-car pre-dawn accident on a backcountry road between Waumandee and Independence in central Buffalo County. Cole Bignell, 28, of Mondovi, and Autumn Caneff, 20, of Alma, were taken to a hospital. Without a seatbelt, Bignell was propelled through the windshield. Caneff, also unbelted, was trapped in the wreckage until first responders could cut through the tight-squashed passenger door to extricate her. Deputies blamed speed and alcohol. Caneff told deputies that Bignell fell asleep at the wheel. The accident was County Road X about 4:30 a.m.

Driver through windshield. Passenger door had to be cut free to rescue trapped passenger. Image: Buffalo County sheriff

Reinhardt and Frederick. Swapping memories on a Wabasha sidewalk during the build-up for next weekend’s community SeptOctober Fest. Soon these yarn-meisters  will take a break for schnitzel and Doppelbocks down the street  Image: Andy Frank.

WINONA, Minn. — A Red Wing man was charged with terrorizing and attacking a girlfriend physically because, as she told police, she wouldn’t mute her music. Arrested was Gabriel Read Lamere, age 19. He acknowledged the incident but denied anything more than a verbal exchange.  The girlfriend’s roommate quoted Lemer: “I’m going to dump a clip in that bitch’s head” and “I’m going to beat the shit out of that bitch.” Lamere wasn’t in the house when police but was found nearby. The girlfriend, age 18, said she was hurting but didn’t want medical attention. This was about 6:45 p.m. in the 500 block of West Fifth Street.

Lamere. Police relied party on witness account to make arrest.