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Blaze destroys two-story structure detached from Hillsboro home
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Blaze destroys two-story structure detached from Hillsboro home

  • By Leader staff
  • Aug 31, 2023

Blaze destroys two-story structure detached from Hillsboro home

Discarded cigarette appears to have caused fire at Hillsboro-area home
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Discarded cigarette appears to have caused fire at Hillsboro-area home

  • By Leader staff
  • Jun 8, 2023

Authorities believe a discarded cigarette butt caused a fire at a home in the 10000 block of Waterford Drive in the Hillsboro area. No people …

Hillsboro Fire, Police investigate 3 suspicious truck fires
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Hillsboro Fire, Police investigate 3 suspicious truck fires

  • By Leader staff
  • Apr 8, 2023

Three trucks were found ablaze in a field in the 4900 block of Hwy. B in Hillsboro early Friday, April 7. No one was injured in the fires, whi…

Festus man seriously hurt in crash involving tanker truck
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Festus man seriously hurt in crash involving tanker truck

  • By Leader staff
  • Mar 22, 2023

A Festus man had to be extricated from his car following a three-vehicle accident Tuesday morning, March 20, on Hwy. B east of Butcher Branch …

Fire causes minimal damage to Hillsboro Food Pantry
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Fire causes minimal damage to Hillsboro Food Pantry

  • By Leader staff
  • Feb 8, 2023

A fire on Tuesday morning, Feb. 7, at the Hillsboro Food Pantry, 10399 Business 21, was quickly extinguished, allowing the nonprofit agency to…

County firefighters help with search, rescue in Mark Twain forest
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County firefighters help with search, rescue in Mark Twain forest

  • By Leader staff
  • Nov 6, 2022

Jefferson County firefighters recently helped search for and rescue a 46-year-old Sullivan woman lost in the Mark Twain National Forest in the…

Barbecue pit starts fire that destroys Hillsboro-area house
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Barbecue pit starts fire that destroys Hillsboro-area house

  • By Leader staff
  • Jul 28, 2022

A fire destroyed a home in the 3900 block of Old Hickory Trail west of Hillsboro on July 22. The fire appeared to have started when flames fro…

Fire starts at Hillsboro-area home after stove left on
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Fire starts at Hillsboro-area home after stove left on

  • By Leader staff
  • Jul 6, 2022

A Hillsboro-area couple was displaced after their home was damaged by fire on July 2. It appears a burner on a stove was left on and caused th…

Emergency personnel find lost hiker at Hillsboro-area nature trail
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Emergency personnel find lost hiker at Hillsboro-area nature trail

  • By Leader staff
  • May 12, 2022

Hillsboro firefighters and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputies found a woman who got lost while hiking at the Valley View Glades Natura…

Fire damages Hillsboro building where Furplus City plans to move
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Fire damages Hillsboro building where Furplus City plans to move

  • By Kevin Carbery
  • Mar 10, 2022

A fire damaged a building at 10810 Business 21 in Hillsboro, which was being renovated so the Furplus City pet supply store could relocate the…

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