Winona County News

Gray clouds slumped low over the Winona County Fairgrounds Friday, and rain began to fall, but it was time for children to shine.

A Winona County grand jury has indicted three people in the 23-year-old murder of Ada Frances Senenfelder, a mother of five who was stabbed to death in her Winona home in an apparent case of revenge.

A Winona County grand jury has indicted three people in a 23-year-old murder. Ada Sennenfelder was found stabbed to death in her Winona home in 1985.

Charges have been brought against a Prairie du Chien woman and a man currently housed in the Oshkosh Correctional Facility in connection to a more than 20-year-old murder in Winona.

A motorcycle accident early Sunday morning in Winona County left a Winona man in critical condition.

People come to cemeteries to bury loved ones, to mourn, to remember and to pray.

A 77-year-old Winona man drowned yesterday in a river he loved. Robert Plinski leaves behind a wife, children and grandchildren.

Authorities have recovered the body of a 77-year-old man who apparently fell into the Mississippi River today in Winona.

CHARLES -- Kicking Bear will host a Kicking Bear Event for kids during the Tri-State Outdoor Festival beginning at 11 a.m. Friday at the Winona County Fairgrounds in St.

A grand jury has been convened to hear a prosecutor's evidence to indict a Winona man with premeditated first-degree murder in connection with a 1985 killing, Winona County Attorney Charles MacLean said at a ...

Jack Willis Nissalke made his first appearance today on charges that allege he murdered Ada Frances Senenfelder 23 years ago.

Short-term repairs to the barricaded Interstate Bridge, as opposed to immediate replacement, are "very possible," a Minnesota Department of Transportation official said Monday.

Moods were upbeat as people made their Monday morning commute by ferry. By 9 a.m., more than 1,000 people had already been moved across the Mississippi River.

A 23-year-old murder investigation ended Monday when first- and second-degree murder charges were filed against John Willis Nissalke for the murder of Ada Senenfelder in June 1985.

A man accused of participating in a heist of more than 600 pounds of scrap metal last week could face additional charges, this time stemming from an April drug sale.

The jury trial of a Rochester man accused of hurling racial epithets and firing seven shotgun slugs into a house occupied by three Latino people in 2005 was delayed indefinitely Thursday.

Every year we shake our heads at the latest farm bill. This year is no different.

A Rochester man was tracked to a tree in a rural area near Lewiston early Saturday after leading a Winona County deputy sheriff on a high-speed chase on U.S. 14.

Winona and four other southeast Minnesota counties have pulled the plug on a plan to buy affordable health care for low-income residents.

A South Dakota man was found in Winona County early Thursday morning bleeding from the face after apparently being beaten by assailants.