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Girls golf: Setrum gets 4th All-CLC nod in home finale

Tribune photo by Rand Middleton Willmar Cardinal senior Raelin Setrum coaxes a 10-foot putt on the No. 9 hole Thursday at Eagle Creek in Willmar in the final Central Lakes Conference meet. This was the final home meet for the six-time letterwinner and four-time all-conference selection.

Prep softball roundup: KMS heads to 3A-North finals

Tribune photo by Tom Larson Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg’s Erin Haglund delivers a pitch against Wheaton/Herman-Norcross in the Section 3A-North semifinals on Thursday in Murdock. The Fighting Saints beat the Warriors 15-1.

I-5 bridge collapses north of Seattle; people in water

People look on Thursday after the Interstate 5 bridge collapsed over the Skagit River in Mount Vernon, Wash. AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Rick Lund

DFL and GOP leaders express views of legislative action

“I’m so happy,” State House Majority Leader Erin Murphy, D-St. Paul, says of the legislative session that ended this week. She was interviewd Thursday at the Tribune. Tribune photo by Ron Adams
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