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KANSAS CITY — MU’s next fund-raising goal is $1 billion, Chancellor Richard Wallace said Thursday at a meeting of the University of Missouri Board of Curators.

He made the announcement in response to UM system President Elson Floyd’s presentation about the system’s strategic planning goals. Those goals include raising $1 billion over the next five years.

If you’re planning on going to the “Salute to Veterans” air show this weekend, you better take the shuttle.

Because of wet weather conditions, parking will not be allowed on grassy areas at Columbia Regional Airport for the air show on Saturday and Sunday.

James Hirsch, a 1984 MU graduate and former journalist for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, recently published “Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs” in Vietnam in time for the celebration of Memorial Day.

The book recognizes the bond that occurred among the men in the prisoner-of-war camps of North Vietnam.

A woman was awakened early Wednesday by gunshots being fired into her home, the Boone County Sheriff’s Department said.

The incident occurred about 1 a.m. in an apartment in the 4500 block of Bellview Drive on the southwest end of Columbia, according to a press release from the department. At the time, four adults and two children were inside the residence; no one was injured.

Because of wet conditions, parking will not be allowed on grassy areas at Columbia Regional Airport.

With a six-course spread using the secret ingredient wasabi, Daniel Pliska, executive chef of the University Club, won Thursday night's Iron Chef Challenge 3: The Final Showdown - beating out Mark Prece, corporate chef at the American Italian Pasta Company based in Kansas City.

After opening the season with an onslaught of errors, the Mid-Missouri Mavericks took advantage of somebody else’s defensive lapse.

Frank Scott, Jr. scored from second on an infield single in the bottom of the ninth, giving the Mavericks their first win of the season, 4-3 against the Gateway Grizzlies on Wednesday in their home opener at Taylor Stadium.

Christian Cantwell dominated Saturday at the Home Depot Invitational, which didn’t surprise him. News that his hometown of Eldon is planning a “Christian Cantwell Appreciation Day” was a surprise.

“I just feel normal there,” Cantwell said in a teleconference call.

The opponents are familiar, but Rock Bridge doesn’t want a familiar result. This time, it wants a state championship.

The Rock Bridge boys’ tennis team plays Chaminade (11-6) today at 9 a.m. in the Class 2 state semifinals at Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield, Mo. If the Bruins win the match, they will face the winner of the Rockhurst/Kirkwood match in the final at 1 p.m.

ARLINGTON, Texas — Garrett Broshuis allowed six hits over 6 2/3 innings to remain unbeaten, and the Missouri Tigers won their fifth straight game by beating Oklahoma Sooners 9-5 on Wednesday in the Big 12 Conference Tournament.

Missouri (35-20) will meet Baylor today at 5 p.m. Oklahoma (36-21) will face Texas Tech today at 10 a.m.

An increase in police activity may mean better law enforcement, but it is also threatening to overwhelm the Columbia Municipal Court.

Shara Meyer, clerk of the court, said she has seen an increase in citations for city ordinance and traffic violations, as well as misdemeanor drug violations. That has meant additional paperwork for her staff of five clerks and one probation officer.

When they meet in Kansas City today, curators governing the University of Missouri system will hear how $12 million beyond what the system budgeted for in state dollars will be spent.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis can expect about $2.7 million to improve equity among the campuses.

Helen Jeavons stands with her feet slightly spread apart aiming her 9 mm at six circular steel plates that are 8 inches in diameter and 4 feet off the ground, spaced one foot apart.

She steadies herself and takes a single shot at each plate, first at 10 yards, then 15, then 20, then 25. For the first round, she’s only allowed 6 seconds to knock down all six plates.

A 10th case of whooping cough has been confirmed in Columbia’s public schools, a school official said Wednesday. The student was a first-grader at Rock Bridge Elementary School, the fifth school to be affected by the outbreak.

Darlene Huff, health services coordinator for the school district, estimated that 130 to 140 students and staff have been identified as close contacts since whooping cough was first identified in the schools.

Amahia Mallea will trace her way through history and time when she leaves today to bicycle more than 2,000 miles through nine states. Her journey marks the end of a creative class project at MU.

Mallea, a doctoral student in history and a teaching assistant for a survey history course this past semester, is particularly interested in environmental history and the Missouri River. After taking a bike tour of the river last summer, she was inspired to combine her love of biking and history to teach her students.

As a cold shower pelts its surface and drenches its beach, Stephens Lake hardly seems conducive to swimming. But more rain is exactly what the Columbia Parks and Recreation Department needs before it can open the lake to visitors this summer.

After more than a year of extensive renovation of the lake and the 111 acres that surround it, the parks department has nearly finished the first phase of its development of Stephens Lake Park. The lake, however, needs five to six more feet of water before it’s ready for swimmers, anglers and boaters.

Nearly 2,000 Special Olympics athletes from across Missouri will compete in the 2004 Special Olympics Missouri State Summer Games that begins today on the MU campus and continues through tomorrow.

Seventy local athletes will participate in the events, according to Shannan Baker of the Special Olympics’ Missouri office. Events today and Friday will include track and field, aquatics, powerlifting, bocce, tennis and team handball. To qualify for this week’s competition, roughly 14,000 athletes competed in their event at the local level in Special Olympics games across Missouri. The Missouri State Summer Games is the highest competing level that athletes reach in the Missouri program.

Only two desks remain in Kelly Hughes’s office, but the clinic downstairs is lined with boxes and still functioning.

“It’s pretty bare-bones around here,” said Hughes, secretary for the Columbia/Boone County Health Department.

Helping a production company film a movie in Fayette is not typically a function of the Columbia Convention and Visitors bureau. But when The Missouri Film Commission asked Lorah Steiner, executive director of the local convention and visitors bureau, to help with production, she felt her staff could handle the task.

“We felt more than up for the challenge,” Steiner said. “It was excellent business for the city and the economy.”