PHOTO GALLERY: Most-read stories of 2012

Michael Dixon Jr. is congratulated by fans after the Missouri-Oklahoma basketball game Jan. 3 at Mizzou Arena. Later in the year, Dixon announced he would transfer from MU after he was accused in two rape cases.
  |  Matthew Busch

Tight end Jake Hurrell lines up during Missouri's football game against South Carolina on Sept. 22 in Columbia, S.C.   |  Jaime Henry-White

Volleyball, women's basketball, men's basketball and football players don the new Missouri uniforms in April.   |  Andrew Mitchell

Olympic swimmer Matt Grevers proposed to his girlfriend, Annie Chandler, after earning gold in the men's 100-meter backstroke at the Missouri Grand Prix held at the Mizzou Aquatic Center.
  |  Colleen Archibald

A fire destroyed most of the under-construction Brookside on College apartments in downtown Columbia.   |  Caitlin Jones

Friends react after hearing about the death of a woman in March at Capen Park.   |  Grant Hindsley

Bystanders pay their respects as pallbearers place the casket of Army Spc. Sterling Wyatt into a hearse in July at First Baptist Church of Columbia. Supporters wearing red shielded the family from protesters at the funeral.
  |  Robert Swain

Participants in the Go Topless rally march down Broadway.   |  Rachel English

A man and a tow-truck operator chain a 1,300-pound steer before removal from a backyard in Columbia after a chase in June. The steer jumped a fence while in a pen awaiting slaughter at MU.

  |  Carrie Durkee