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The Hillsboro Tigers softball team won their 3rd straight regional champions Thursday evening with an 8-1 thumping over Brookwood.  Hillsboro used a big 5 run 2nd inning to help secure the victory.  The two Tiger seniors had big games for Hillsboro.  Peyton Sullivan had a Kirk Gibson like performance going 3×3 with a key RBI in the 2nd inning for Hillsboro.  Jaelyn Bloor went 1×3 with an RBI at the plate but picked up the victory in the circle going 7 strong innings giving up just 1 run while scattering 5 hits and striking out a pair of batters against just 1 walk.  Hillsboro will travel to Seneca on Tuesday

Gov. Tony Evers is promoting a deputy secretary at the embattled Wisconsin Department of Corrections to be the new leader of the state’s prison system. Evers announced Friday that Jared Hoy will take over from Kevin Carr, who retired in… Source: LacrosseTribune.com

Vernon County Sheriff Roy Torgerson reports a vehicle versus black bear collision occurred Thursday night, May 23, 2024, at approximately 10:00 PM, near Pine Avenue, in the town of Union, rural Hillsboro, WI.  Dominic Lee Vesbach, age 27, of rural La Farge, WI was operating a heavy-duty pickup truck, traveling east on State Highway 82, east of Pine Avenue, when the collision occurred.  The left side of a loaded trailer attached to the Vesbach vehicle struck the bear.    The approximate 145-poun, male black bear was severely injured and had to be put down.  The trailer sustained minor damage.   Assisting the Sheriff’s Office was the La Farge Police Department.

Residents of the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, are working to clean up days after a destructive tornado ripped apart more than 100 homes in just one minute, took the lives of four residents and injured dozens more. All along… Source: LacrosseTribune.com

Searchers have discovered what they believe is the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong’s plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin, and the nonprofit World War II historical preservation group… Source: LacrosseTribune.com