EYOTA, Minn — An Owatonna woman was injured when her mid-weight 2024 Kia Carnival was caught in a collision of two Peterbilt trucks. This was about 9:30 a.m. just east of the Intestate 90 exit into Eyota. Jenna Lee Fernandez, age 41, was taken 12 miles to a Rochester hospital. Her injuries appeared sustainable, according to Olmsted County deputies. The collision was in the westbound lanes toward Rochester. Unhurt were:

> Bruce David Jacobs, age 50, of Huntington, Indiana, in a 2013 Peterbilt.

> David Bradley Marks, age 69, of Wabash, Indiana, in a 2022 Peterbilt.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A woman from St. James in south-central Minnesota was killed in a three-vehicle accident near Interstate 90’s Marion exit into Rochester and to Chatfield. The victim was Evelyn Marie Brye, 72. She was driving a 2023 Toyota Rav 4, which was stuck by a 2013 Nissan Altima, which had sideswiped with a 2005 International truck. This was about 9 a.m. on wet pavement. Brye, who was belted, was alone in her car. Unhurt:

> Alex Blake Whiteis. 46, of Austin, driver of the Nissan.

> Reese Jessica Whiteis, 18, of Austin, a passenger.

> Louis Antone Plaskey, 43, the trucker, of Loyal, Wisconsin, which is 140 miles away near Marshfield.

Spongy moth caterpillers. Incredibly voracious creatures in 360-degree chow-down around a birch trunk. At risk: Minnesota forest, farm and tourist industries.

Tool is waxy substance to suppress mating

WINONA, Minn. — The state Agriculture Department is going airborne for to battle the spread of an invasive moth that threatens Minnesota forests. The target: Spongy moths. The battleground includes 19 sites in southeast Minnesota’s Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and Winona counties and cities including Austin, Goodview, Rochester, Stewartville and Winona. Crop-dusting planes will spray 112,000 acres. The weapon will be non-toxic substance that messes with the mating instincts of male spongy moths. Next year, according to the the plan, will be largely devoid of caterillars that would morph into the spongy moths. The Agriculture Department says the substance is benign to humans, animals, birds and other insects.

Yellow bird in shallow swoops. Under contract are pilots of small yellow crop-dusters with wing tanks loaded with spray. Weather permitting, the eight-day aerial campaign begins June 24. Repeated tree-top swoops begin daily at 6. a.m.

STEWARTVILLE, Minn. — Investigation documents into the shooting on the Stewartville High School parking last December reveal a bit more about what happened and perhaps why.

> The high school wrestler who was shot, and who has since recovered, knew the shooter well.

> The shooter, Logan Moyer, a recent Stewartville graduate, who had been hanging around the team as a volunteer assistant, had two rifles the morning of the shooting. One rifle he fired from a distance at the wrestling team — a single shot — as the team

was boarding a bus. Moyer then committed suicide with a second shot. The other rifle was in Moyer’s nearby car and wrapped in a blanket with two boxes of ammunition.

> Coaches had been aware of a problem between Moyer and the wrestler who was shot. The coaches, sometime earlier, had ordered Moyer to stay away from the gym.

> Text messages on the wounded student’s phone revealed that Moyer had asked several times to meet with him. The student declined.

The fresh details were drawn from more than 40 interviews by Olmsted County sheriff’s investigators. The case was closed in February.

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ROCHESTER, Minn. — One person died in the collision of a motorcycle and a pickup truck in a Far Southeast retail district.  The accident was about 7:40 p.m. on 48th Street Southeast at St. Bridgett’s Road.

LEWISTON, Minn.— A Lewiston woman reported belatedly that personal items and money were stolen from her apartment Saturday evening. She had called deputies Monday about 7:40 p.m. about a disturbance that had just occurred at her place behind the Lewiston Country Club in the 300 block of Benson Drive North. She said the disturbance involved the man who stole from her two days earlier. Missing since Saturday, she said, were:

> A case of Michelob Golden beer in bottles.

> A comforter and pillows.

> A $20 bill and a jar with $80 in coins.

The thief, she said, had come back these two days later and just driven off in his pickup truck. Shortly after she recited her account to a sheriff’s deputy, a State Patrol trooper stopped Pierre Lamont Davis, age 36, in his pickup. But, the trooper said, he gave a false name. A second trooper arrived and recognized Davis from previous dealings in a Twin Cities suburb. Then a Winona deputy arrived and confirmed the driver’s real identification through an online photo database — and also discovered he was wanted on warrants from Dakota and Scott counties. As best as officers could determine, Davis had no permanent address but stayed off and on in Lakeville. a south Twin Cities exurb 80 miles from Lewiston. He was in Lewiston visiting a brother.

Gorgeous front-door greeting. At a home in East Burns Valley. With its wings folded and with striped antenna, this butterfly is of the northern pearly eye variety. They usually hold their wings together above the body, opening only occasionally and briefly. They fancy-grassy edges and openings and dirt roads and trails in mature deciduous woodlands, usually near streams, rivers or marshes. Their flight is bouncy.  Adults emerge in late June and are around into August. They feed on dung, fungi, carrion, mud, and sap, but not flower nectar. Image: Andy Frank

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Surprise  visitor.  A gardener was momentarily unsettled when, unexpectedly, there was motion in a rubble pile along Peterson Creek in central Winona County. The garter snake quietly slithered into the rocks. The gardener was sure the creature was six feet, maybe seyen, maybe eight. Who’s to say otherwise. But garter snakes generally are two to four feet. Garter snakes werelong thought to be non-venomous, but discoveries in the early 2000s discovered they produce a neurotoxic venom, but it’s too weak to injure humans. Also: They lack fags to deliver the venom. Image: Jackie Rislow

WINONA, Minn. — The theft construction tools from a house being remodeled on the West Side was reported to police about 2:20 p.m. Missing too was a clarinet. This was in the 1000 block of West Wabasha Street. Police found no sign of forced entry.

WINONA, Minn. — A woman — drunk, yelling and screaming, rolling in the street, and apparently in a mental crisis — bit a police officer who was trying to subdue her. The bite, on an arm, didn’t require medical attention. This was about 12:20 a.m. in the Third Street bar district downtown. Arrested and booked at jail for fleeing police on foot, obstructing police, and disorderly conduct was Korta, age 28, of La Crosse. Police bare had responded to a call about an intoxicated person outside Gabby’s bar. Their report: In an attempt to calm the woman, officers cuffed her hands. She made some comments about wanting to harm herself. Police called her father, who said he would be right over to pick her up. At this point she seemed calmer. Police uncuffed her. She ran. An officer quickly caught her, which was when he was bit. Subdued again, she was taken to the hospital for psychological evaluation. When medically cleared, she was taken to jail.

ONALASKA, Wis. — Besieged restaurant owner Tony Angelini tried for an upper hand against street protesters who were objecting to his sexist hiring practices. Angelini took a microphone to outshout the protesters, who were across the street. He called them “hillbillies” and “looneys.” “You guys all lost,’ he shouted. He already had amped the volume of Trump  campaign theme  music —Village People’s 1978 “YMCA” and Lee Greenwodo’s 1984 “God Bless the U.S.A.” At his side Angelini had five women. In the background his building was obscured by red, white and blue bunting and flags and Trump posters — and also his budddies who are his restaurant’s managers and a few other men. At Angelini’s feet was  a 14-foot banner proclaiming “America 1776-226.” It too was replete with U.S. flags. The protesters, numbering about 30, chanted. A few motorists on busy  U.S. Highway 35 honked  upport and gave high-fives and thumbs-up  High-fiving for Angelini’ and his maller crowd were occasional  oter drivers  Desoite provocative from both sides of the street, police saw no cause to intervene. Nor was there   a calk for pre-pre-arranged police .backup from nearby Holmen nnd LaCrrosse. As the confrrontation wonnd down, Angelini switched ears. He thanked the protesters for comjng. It was a weird moment.

Protesters chose signs.  Angelini chose a megaphone amdnmusic at deafening volume. The protesters numbered three dozen at most. They stayed across the street from Angelini’s Italian estishment. From his parking lot Angeoinin hiuled insults insults and unflattering epithets.

Earlier: Restaurateur defiant on “women need not apply”

Earlier: Earlier: Protest targets ristorante’s sexist attitudes

Earlier: Earlier: Readers riled by ristorante’s sexist talk

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Two canoeists who were missing in the Chippewa Tuver were found safe albeit wet on the shore. downriver. The search began just before 2 p.m. The canoeists had been seen clinging to their sinking canoe near the Clairemont Avenue overpass in Eau Claire. Fire Department rescuers found loating debris from the canoe. About then two fisherman called that they spotted the canoeists stranded on a riverbank along Ferry Street. They were medically examined and found uninjured.

A pollinator’s dream. This patch of daisies, clover add milkweed is on Camp Drive into the Winona Y’s East Burns Valley youth summer camp. Image: Andy Frank

Digs heels in deeper.  Restaurant owner Tony Angelini goes all-out to link President Trump to his cause. Unclear: Does Angelini feel misogynist connection. Or is he asserting merely that Trump would endorse his right to proclaim whatever he wants. Images: Steve Lunde

Trump décor overwhelms Italian fare signage

Business savvy

Data bespeak the questionable wisdom of a business that explicitly espouses dubious moral and the also goes overboard for the est popular U.S. president in history. Census, voting and polling data:

> Gender: 51.06% women, 48.94% men in LaCrosse County, in which Onalaska is a major suburb.

> 2024 election: Trump lost LaCrosse Couny by 9.3 points (Harris, 39,000; Trum, 32,200).

> 2020 election: Trump lost by 13.5% (Biden 37,800; Trump, 32,200).

> 2016 election: Trump lost by 9.5 points (Clinton 2,400; Trump, 28,600).

> Current polls: Trump approval status  nationally averages 38%

Exception

Sources say Angelini has one female sevrer on-call as a part-time staffing back-up. She has full-time employment elsewhere.

Earlier: Protest targets ristorante’s sexist attitudes

Earlier: Earlier: Readers riled by ristorante’s sexist talk

CENTERVILLE, Wis. — One person died in a two-vehicle collision triggered by a deer on the road north of Centerville on U.S. Highway 93. Without explanation Trempealeau Count Sheriff Erica Koxlien withheld the victims’ name. The accident was about 5 a.m. Deputies said a vehicle was traveling toward Centerville and hit a deer. The vehicle crossed into the oncomg lane and d collided with a truck. A passenger in one vehicle died apparently instantly. Both drivers were airlifted to hospitals.

WINONA, Minn. — A Winona driver tested as drunk after being stopped for a bad headlamp and expired vehicle registration. At jail Carland Rose Gerdes’ blood showed to be 0.12% alcohol, half again as much as allowed. The stop was about 1:20 a.m. at Fifth and Winona streets. At the scene, police said she smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot and watery eyes and slurred speech. She fumbled through roadside sobriety exercises, the arresting office said. Gerdes, age 27, was released to a sober person to take home.

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