Columbia residents, leaders differ on idea of curfew for teens

Thursday, June 18, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT; updated 10:46 a.m. CDT, Thursday, June 18, 2009

COLUMBIA — While Columbia officials and residents begin to line up for or against the idea of a curfew for teens — raised recently by Mayor Darwin Hindman and Councilwoman Laura Nauser — several neighboring communities have had a teen curfew for years and say they've seen a reduction in youth crime.

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