Lewiston News

MinnPost photo by Sharon Schmickle Lewiston celebrated Heartland Days with a chicken barbeque and other festivities even though the town has lost some 200 jobs and its only grocery store this year.

David Krenz spent Wednesday in his office - bare walls, a nearly empty desk, mute tones of gray and white.

Nearly all the 24 Malt-O-Meal bins were empty, refrigerated dairy cases had but a few gallons of milk, and many shelves of Wiens Food Center were bare Friday.

A firefighter from Lewiston has been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay restitution for stealing from his own fire department.

A Winona man was sentenced April 28 to 120 days in jail and ordered to pay restitution of $4,700 after pleading guilty in Winona District Court to third-degree damage to property for driving a car into a campfire and leaving the vehicle.

As time passes, the attention on the aftermath of the flood that cut through southeastern Minnesota in August 2007 continues to dry up.

An investigation has found that the money and drugs once thought missing from the Lewiston Police Department wasn't actually missing at all.

As my fly rod arched sharply from the weight of a scrappy brown trout charging deep into a crystal clear pool in the Whitewater River, the events of the previous 24 hours replayed in my mind.

Authorities evacuated a southeastern Minnesota town of about 3,600 as a large fire at a meat processing plant threatened the anhydrous ammonia tanks inside, according to the Associated Press.

Charles, Minn., are fleeing town as a fire approaches chemical storage tanks at a poultry processing plant.

Huge plumes of black smoke poured out of the North Star Foods poultry processing plant in St.

An April 25 wedding is planned. Stoltz - Schock The Free Press Alison Ellen Stoltz daughter of Ken and Colleen Stoltz of Winona.

Winona County authorities suspect arson in at least two of four grass fires over the weekend.

A Lewiston woman and her boyfriend have been charged with child abuse and malicious punishment of a child after the 5-year-old boy came to school with bruises on his face.

LeRoy Laib, age 80, of Winona, MN, formerly of Mercer, ND, died Thursday, March 5, 2009 at a Winona care center.

McNeilus Trucking and Manufacturing is planning to close its Dexter plant with nearly 30 employees.

Allen Lee Oesterich, 19, is in the Winona County Jail awaiting charges that he fled police and swerved to miss stop sticks, nearly hitting a sheriff's deputy Tuesday night, police said.

A close call for a Winona police officer the fleeing vehicle in car chase almost just misses him.

Residents are reeling after Herff Jones, one of the city's largest employers, announced Thursday afternoon it will close its photography lab in Lewiston.

A man who led police on a high-speed chase tried to run over a Winona County Sheriff's deputy early Tuesday evening, police said.