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Two days after its first loss of the season, the Helias softball team decided to take out its frustration on Rock Bridge.

The Bruins suffered their worst loss of the season Monday, falling 18-1 to the defending Class 4 state champions at Rock Bridge Field.

Dane Pavlovich, the Stephens College volleyball coach, knew visiting Messenger College would put up a fight.

“We knew they were going to be scrappy,” Pavlovich said. “We definitely didn’t take them for granted.”

Lawrence Ries is known for his entertaining lectures and his ability to cure students of their aversion toward numerical data.

“I try to keep in mind who my audience is and to design my lectures so that they will be accessible to that audience,” Ries said. “Most of the time that I’m lecturing I’m having fun, and I just think that comes across to the students.”

Go to the desk at the entrance of the Student Recreation Center and fill out an application form. Have their Social Security numbers ready.

Your spouse can use facilities at the center for about $40 a semester or $9.99 a month. Children between 16 and 18 years old need a junior membership, which costs $31 per semester.

In late August, U.S. law enforcement began a crackdown on unwanted spam e-mail and other questionable online activities with about 100 arrests nationwide. The arrests targeted people who spread viruses, sent large amounts of unsolicited mail and stole other users’ personal information.

Unsolicited commercial messages make up about 65 percent of all e-mail, according to computer security company Symantec Corp. Some spam senders use the bulk messages to spread viruses and trick people into giving credit card numbers and other personal information — a technique called “phishing.”

For one week in November, leaders of MU’s International Center hope that international cuisine will find its way to the hearts of Columbia residents.

During International Education Week, which begins Nov. 14, the center will publish a cookbook titled “From Many Lands.”

Neglected and abused children who are in Boone County’s court system will have more advocates soon.

Court Appointed Special Advocates, a national, nonprofit program that recruits volunteers to represent the child’s best interest in abuse and neglect cases, is starting a local program this fall.

Some of Columbia’s independent businesses have officially decided to depend on each other.

After months of discussion, about a dozen local business owners are ready to form an independent business alliance.

The murder trial of former Columbia police officer Steven Rios has been reassigned to Circuit Judge Ellen Roper, who replaces Circuit Judge Gene Hamilton.

Rios, 27, is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in connection with the death of 23-year-old MU student Jesse Valencia, who was found with his throat cut June 5.

Bob Dylan will perform at the Hearnes Center on Oct. 27. Tickets go on sale this Thursday.

Kevin Walsh, store manager of Streetside Records, plans on seeing Dylan perform with his band for the fourth time next month in Columbia.

Columbia Republican Bob Northup filed papers in Jefferson City on Monday to replace Joel Jeffries on the ballot in the 25th District state representative race.

Jeffries pulled out of the election last week after he was appointed to Missouri’s Board of Probation and Parole by Gov. Bob Holden. Jeffries also said he was unwilling to wage a negative campaign against Democratic candidate Judy Baker.

Eight years ago, FedEx lost a package filled with expensive epilepsy medicine. Without the money to purchase the drug at U.S. prices, a family from the southeastern Missouri town of Jackson turned frantically to representatives in Congress to help find the cargo that disappeared between a pharmacy in Canada and Missouri.

“That’s when I first found out you could even do that,” Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., said about ordering medications abroad for lower prices.

About five years ago, small cameras began sprouting up at intersections around Columbia.

Some drivers have mistaken the new additions as red-light cameras, which are used around the world to record traffic violations.

What I hate most about the kind of politics that are presently poisoning our social climate is the way it will affect future generations of children. There is something absolutely dismal about thinking of children growing up hating all other children who do not think the way they do.

I heard someone quoting a young man in our community the other day, saying, “We’re the baddest country in the world. We can kick everybody’s behind.” For a long time I believed our civilization had advanced beyond that point.

ST. LOUIS — Even without Deuce McAllister, the New Orleans Saints’ running game is in good hands.

Perturbed after being described as a journeyman, fill-in Aaron Stecker responded with his first career 100-yard day in the Saints’ 28-25 overtime victory against the St. Louis Rams on Sunday.

KANSAS CITY — Marcus Coleman made the interception and the long return. Andre Johnson and Derick Armstrong made the catches.

Finally, Kris Brown made the kick that kept the Kansas City Chiefs winless.

Now every game counts in the Big 12 Conference.

No more padding the record with wins against lower-division teams. No more weekend strolls for the big boys. Well, maybe one.

The Missouri soccer team lost to Oklahoma State 3-1 on Sunday in Stillwater, Okla.

The Cowgirls took an early 1-0 lead when Jolene Schweitzer beat Tiger goalkeeper Laura Buehrig in the 14th minute.

For the past 21/2 years , Stephanie White Thorn, director of Graduate Student Services, had been studying at the MU School of Law while working full time. Things changed this month when White Thorn shed some of her responsibilities to her co-workers and stopped working a full-time work schedule.

“If I could go back in time, I would definitely choose to attend law school just the same,” she said. “But I would not have done it as a full-time worker.”

Glenn Rehn collects two things in bulk — organic dairy products and bumper stickers.

Both are perks of being a general merchandise stocker at Hy-Vee. The former is because he gets the chance to take home expired merchandise, and the latter because Rehn uses a serious chunk of his paycheck to buy buttons, stickers and rally signs bearing the American-flagged logo of a certain presidential campaign.