Plush his and hers. For sitting back on a Winona boulevard and enjoying a late summer afternoon. Image: Steve Lunde

FOUNTAIN, Minn. — A Fountain driver suffered sustainable injuries when his Jeep Grand Cherokee and a farm tractor collided on U.S. Highway 52 between Fountain and Preston. Steven Andrew Baker, age 69, was taken 35 miles to a Rochester hospital. The other driver, on the tractor, Nolan Aaron Schatz, 16, of Cresco, Iowa, was unhurt. The collision was about 4:30 p.m. on a straight stretch near Jade Road. Both vehicles were headed south toward Preston.

LEWISTON, Minn — A horse was reported wandering with a saddle but no rider on Garvin Brook between Stockton and Lewiston.  Deputies located the rider, who had fallen off and was injured. An ambulance was called. This was about 3:25 p.m near the Reaction Retrievers dog-training site.

$3.4 million replacement in the works. The useful life of Lewiston’s combined fire and ambulance station has passed long ago. The building, dating to the 1960s, is due for demolition. Being built over the coming year: A roomier and updated facility as a safer workplace with enhanced emergency response times. Image: Steve Lunde

Earlier: Lewiston replacing squeezed emergency quarters

LEWISTON, Minn. —A citizen who knows the law about picking flora called the Winona police dispatcher about people picking watercress at Farmers Park. A state wildlife warden was dispatched.. No, no, the poachers were told, the law forbids picking flora on state property. The group was told to move along.

MINNEISKA, Minn. — A family that parked a pop-up camper at Trout Creek August 24 returned to the campground a week later and found it had been broken into. Items were missing, deputies were told. The family said nearby campers admitted to the theft and returned some of the loot but not all, then packed up and drove off before Winona County deputies could arrive. The victim family gave deputies a car plate number. A wanted poster went out.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Can you believe that southern Minnesota’s Catholic bishop has gone online with advice for cleansing demons from your toilet? Don’t. The post was one of several faked to show Bishop Robert Barron making absurd assertions of things he never said. They are deepfake posts created with AI technology. The bishop doesn’t know source of the perversity but has alerted his followers to ignore profiles purporting to be his if they that don’t have an authenticating blue check. Also, said the bishop: “Use your common sense.” Among absurdities:

> Pope Leo XIV has summoned the bishop to the Vatican to hash out areas of disagreement.

> The bishop got into a fist fight at a Chicago restaurant.

Barron is a celebrity target for his “Word on Fire” site, whose daily comments on spiritual issues have 3.1 million followers on Facebook and 1.6 million on YouTube. About the deepfake videos, Barron is not amused: “They are not harmless fun.” They are libels intended to damage his reputation as well as vehicles to channel viewers to advertising, he said.

Barron. His daily homies online have millions of followers.

MERRILLAN, Wis —A woman with kids in her car was arrested as a drunken driver after leaving a Merrillan bar about 6:30 p.m. Terra Sandoval, age 35, was taken 11 miles to jail in Black River Falls. It was Sandoval’s third drunk-driving arrest. A deputy, responding to a tip about a child screaming child in a car, located the vehicle being driven erratically and made the stop. Sandoval admitted to drinking, the deputy said.

Sandoval. From the the village of Humbird six miles north of Merrillan.

DUMFRIES, Minn. — A Medford motorcyclist was injured when he lost control of his 1995 Harley Cruiser and hit a guardrail. Larry Dean Churchill, 78, was taken 38 miles to a Rochester hospital. First-responders described his injuries as non-life threatening.  The crash was about 5:30 p.m. six miles up the Zumbro River from Wabasha on State Hghway 60. Churchill was not wearing a helmet, deputies said.

WINONA, Minn.  — A north-central Wisconsin driver was charged with drunken driving. Tristen Scott Stange, age 21, of Unity, was all over the road, said the arresting officer. Stange’s blood tested at 0.11% alcohol, three points too much to be driving. The arrest was about 1:10 a.m. at Fifth at Sioux streets on the West Side. The officer said the car smelled of alcohol and that Stange’s eyes were bloodshot and watery and his speech was slurred. Roadside sobriety exercises confirmed intoxication, the officer said.

WABASHA, Minn — The new school year at Wabasha-Kellogg has been put off until at least Thursday because of a fungal infestation. Classes had been scheduled to begin after Labor Day but not now. Last Monday an overwhelming presence of the common mold spore spergillus penicillium was discovered in elementary classrooms. Superintendent Nels Onstad said a scrub-down company has begun a thorough cleaning:

> Vacuuming and disinfecting horizontal surfaces.

> Extracting water from carpets and disinfecting.

> Ventilating fans, dehumidifiers, and air scrubbers.

Onstad blamed a lack of continuous dehumidification during an unusually wet summer. The school has 900 students through 12th grade. The building was constructed in 1974 on flatland south of town. The site is within a mile of Mississippi backwaters and swamps and across the highway from two shallow lagoons.

MAZEPPA, Minn. — A Lakeville woman was found dead, apparently a homicide victim, at a campground just below the Lake Zumbro dam. Barbara McBride-Law, age 66, was in her camper She was from Lakeville, a south Minneapolis exurb in Dakota County — 65 miles from Mazeppa. No obvious trauma was observed, but the medical examiner ruled the death was due to homicidal violence. Wabasha County investigators quoted witnesses that McBride-Law and a man had been flirting the night before at the Mac’s Place Park camgo\round bar. One witness said rthe nan made suspicious comments after McBride-Law was found dead — that he thought he may have killed someone but he couldn’t remember. During a phone call with another person, the man was quoted as believing he may have badly hurt someone but didn’t know who.

Family: She enjoyed bonfires, cruising on her golf cart, and hanging out with camper friends.

McBride-Law. Had worked 22 years for Advanced Wireless, which specializes in two-way radio and wireless systems.

WINONA, Minn. — A Winona man was arrested for driving around with a woman who had a judge’s restraining order not to contact her.  Erick Jhovanni Bustillos-Cavazos, age 21, was riding in her car, police said.  The vehicle was pulled over about 10:50 a.m. on Riverview Drive for dark-tinted windows. Officers recognized Bustillos-Cavazos in violation of the restraining order. In searching the car, officers found two BB ubs under his car seat. The woman said he had stashed the guns under the seat as they were being stopped. The BB guns had the look and heft of the real thing, officers said.

Bustillos-Cavazos, Arrested without resistance.

A pipeline on steel wheels. A mile-long string of tankers winds its way up Garvin Brook between Minnesota City and Stockton. The 124-car train, pulled by two four-axle Canadian Pacific locomotives, will drop tankers along its way across southern Minesota way for return pick-up later. Image: Steve Lunde

WINONA Minn. — A Rollingstone woman bit a policeman who was attempting to get her to the hospital to be evaluated for detoxification. The officer eventually transported Seirra Becky Lohnes, age 23, to the hospital. After being medically cleared, Lohnes was taken to jail and charged with assaulting an officer. The officer said the bite, to a hand, was painful but didn’t require medical attention. Lohnes had been found lying on a sidewalk in the Bar Distrct near Third and Main streets. This was about 2:10 a.m. She was screaming and causing a disturbance and was “very intoxicated,” the officer said.

Lohness. Booked for assault on an officer.

LIVONIA, Mich. — The Catholic bishop of the Winona diocese for 10 years, Bernard Harrington, died at age 91. He retired in 2009 and was living at the 35-acre Senior Clergy Village near Livonia, Michigan. The village grounds include Saint Mary Mercy Hospital. The cause of death was not announced. As Winona bishop. Harrington was the Vatican appointed spiritual leader for Catholics in 20 southern Minnesota counties stretching from border to border. Although the number of parishioners continued shrinking during his cathedra, the diocese still clamed 114,000 faithful — roughly 19% of the population. Harrington’s duties also were administrative.

Legacy as bishop

Harrington’s greatest challenge was unraveling Choir-Boy Sexual Abuse scandals and cover-ups that erupted in Boston and soon engulfed the whole American Catholic church. He negotiated a $28.5 million settlement to compensate survivors of priestly abuse. The settlement required a bankruptcy reorganization of diocesan finances. In response to the scandals, which involved dozens pf priests, many ordained within the diocese over the decades, Harrington implement what he called Safe Environment Practices. He also organized a new cohort of deacon to assist in governance. Separately he created what he called the Seeds of Faith endowment for faith formation, arranged new Catholic school scholarships, and expanded services offered by Catholic Charities. He also did preliminary thinking about moving the  diocesan headquarters from Winona to Rochester to reflect population shifts. He left it to his successor as bishop, John Quinn, to work through details and to the current bishop,  Robert Barron, to implement the delicacies of abandoning Winona, which had been the diocese seat sine 1889.

Clerical career

Earlier Harrington was an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit. He was the son of Irish immigrants in Detroit. He was ordained a priest in Detroit in 1959. His assignments included being a pastor, a superintendent of Catholic schools, and a rector of a seminary.

Senior Clergy Village. A wooded retirement home for Catholic priests west of Detroit.

WINONA, Minn. — A woman from the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth smelled of alcohol during a police stop for a bad taillight and was arrested. Giovanna Bella Zanabria, age, 18, had watery and bloodshot eyes and was slurring, the arresting officer said. The stop was about 1:35 a.m, at Huff and Fourth streets. A test showed her blood at 0.13%, alcohol, four points beyond what’s permitted to drive.