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By CATALIN ABAGIU  ¦   Andrew Hutchinson holds a frame containing photos and news articles of his brother Tommy, who died in a car crash on Highway 63 in 2003.

By CATALIN ABAGIU  ¦   Andrew Hutchinson holds a frame containing photos and news articles of his brother Tommy, who died in a car crash on Highway 63 in 2003.

By CHIARA DELLA CAVA  ¦   Marty Siddall sits on the bench he and his family dedicated to his daughter, Paige, who died on Nov. 1, 2006. “She always wanted to do the right thing,” Siddall said.

By CATALIN ABAGIU  ¦   A quilt made of Tommy Hutchinson’s T-shirts is displayed on a wall in his family’s home. Tommy was 17 when he died, leaving behind two younger brothers.

By Missourian file photo  ¦   Adam Popejoy was an honors student who loved soccer and was active with his church.

The University of Kansas mascot

By CATALIN ABAGIU  ¦   Gamal Dirar checks the cash register Thursday afternoon shortly before starting his shift at the Bear Creek Minimart.

By CATALIN ABAGIU  ¦   Gamal Kirar pulls up the blinds Thursday afternoon shortly before starting his shift at the Bear Creek Minimart.

By CATALIN ABAGIU/MISSOURIAN  ¦   Leo Lyons' personality on the court is very different from his off-court persona.

By ANN HERMES/MISSOURIAN  ¦   MU freshman Shakara Jones goes up for a basket during the game against University of Missouri-Kansas City in December 2007.

By CATALIN ABAGIU/MISSOURIAN  ¦   Leo Lyons, center, talks with teammates Jason Horton, left and DeMarre Carroll during a recent game.

John Anderson

By JAMES MARITZ  ¦   Angela Robnett, 16, performs during "Rock da Mic" at Hickman High School on Thursday night. "I sang the song I knew I could sing the best," Robnett said. The competition was open to Rock Bridge, Hickman and Douglass high school students

By JAMES MARITZ  ¦   U.N.I.Q. performs at Rock da Mic at Hickman High School on Thursday night.

By CHIARA DELLA CAVA/Missourian  ¦   Stephanie Nieman, 18, left, and Kaitlyn Billingsley, 19, center, look for their textbooks at the Bookshelf Wednesday. Mark Lovelace, right, manager of the bookstore, helps Billingsley find the books she needs for her classes.

By CHIARA DELLA CAVA/Missourian  ¦   Sydney Falkner, 20, is reading up for her developmental psychology class in Hugh Stephens Library Wednesday. Falkner, a senior psychology major, said she was glad to be back. "I'm already doing good because I've got stuff done," she said while she began working on her homework for this Friday.

By CATALIN ABAGIU  ¦   Jade Stockwell, right, 12 years old, celebrates after winning a round of Dance Dance Revolution against his twin brother Jessie on Wednesday evening at the Columbia Public Library. After going to such events Jade persuaded his father to buy the game a few days ago. Since then Jade has been playing it for 12 hours a day. He confessed his feet hurt but he can't stop. "I think it's a really fun game and I think everybody will love it," Jade said between two rounds.

By CATALIN ABAGIU  ¦   The Stockwell brothers are home-schooled and their parents bought the game for their physical education classes.

By CATALIN ABAGIU  ¦   The building in which The Coliseum restaurant has functioned until recently is currently being remodelled. Shiloh, the bar located at the intersection of 6th Street with Elm Street will move in the space that's being remodelled. The building is located at the corner of 4th and Broadway in downtown Columbia.

By CATALIN ABAGIU  ¦   The Italian restaurant Cucina Sorella located on 22 N. 9th Street in downtown Columbia went out of business recently. Cucina Sorella shared the same fate with another Italian restaurant, Trattoria Strada Nova, that functioned right across the street and that closed its doors over the summer.