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By JOHN HOOK  ¦   Columbia School Board candidate Rosie Tippin and longtime friend Miles Earl talk with a supporter during a gathering at Boone Tavern to watch the school board election results on Tuesday. Tippin, Tom Rose and Ines Segert were elected to the school board.

John Sam Williamson

Phyllis Fugit

Fred Parry

Tom Rose

Ines Segert

By MELISSA HUFFER  ¦   Tao, a pet pug and one of Searcy Hall's residents, waits in anticipation for his afternoon walk with owner Abby Herzog.

By MELISSA HUFFER  ¦   Cats Benny and Joon seem to enjoy life at Stephens. "It's nice having pets. It gives us something in common," the cats' owner Emilyann Allen said of life in Searcy Hall.

By MELISSA HUFFER  ¦   A resident of Searcy Hall on the Stephens campus takes a break from dorm life to check out life on the outside.

Picture of man going by name of Alan Farha or Michael.

By ALEX LEWIS  ¦   Alicia Hatcher was named All-Conference on the uneven bars and was named to the Big 12 All-Academic first team for the second year in a row.

By MICHAEL STONACEK/Missourian  ¦   Rock Bridge outfielder Lonnie Hofmann catches a fly ball in center field during Wednesday's game. Hickman won 6-4.

By STEPHANIE HINKLE  ¦   Volunteers wait outside the Activity and Recreation Center to gather signatures on petitions for initiatives they hope will appear on the November ballot during the municipal election on Tuesday. The petitions concerned hospice care at home, Medicaid benefits and natural fuel usage.

By HEATHER McGUIRE  ¦   Katie McMillen, left, and Eric Mericle, right, watch the films shot for the Brickwall competition at Deja Vu Comedy Club on Monday night. Mericle is member of Kodiak, one of the bands that volunteered a song to be part of the competition.

By HEATHER McGUIRE  ¦   Jay Sparks, co-founder of the Brickwall film competition, hosted the event Monday night at Deja Vu Comedy Club.

By ALEX LEWIS  ¦   Firefighters pull burnt furniture from a fire Tuesday at 8105 Highway HH.

By ALEX LEWIS  ¦   A charred wheelchair was pulled from the fire, which broke out Tuesday.

By AP Photo/Pulitzer Prize Board  ¦   Steve Fainaru was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting on Monday.

By Alex Lewis  ¦   Katy Koontz, an MU softball player, throws a ball to dunk MU professor Dr. William Horner on Tuesday. Horner said he thought he had been dunked about seven or eight times in the hour and a half he spent out in Lowry Mall. The dunk tank was a way for the American Cancer Society to raise money for the Relay for Life on Stankowski Field from 6 p.m. Saturday until 6 a.m. the following day.

By JOSHUA A. BICKEL  ¦   Newly-elected First Ward City Councilman Paul Sturtz thanks supporters during a speech Tuesday night at the Pasta Factory in Columbia.