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The new Wal-Mart Supercenter at Broadway and Fairview Road should be open by Thanksgiving 2006 and will be unlike any other Wal-Mart in the city. Ground-breaking on the store will begin in the spring, after a five-year battle that pitted nearby residents against the developers and cast the Columbia City Council in the role of mediator. The council finally signed off on the plans Oct. 17, but its approval came with 20 conditions attached to ensure the developers follow through on their promises.

Mitzi Marshall has been a fan of Stephens Lake ever since it was a golf course owned by Stephens College. Now that it’s a city park, she likes to spend time there with her daughter, Kylie, and her Yorkshire terrier, Ranger.

It has been three years since Tom Atkins donated 80 acres adjacent to the Boone County Fairgrounds with hopes of developing much-needed sports fields.

Tragic events have the sometimes-unfortunate consequence of bringing out the best in people. Those people often turn out to volunteer in staggering numbers, swamping agencies with their good intentions.

JEFFERSON CITY — Central Missouri ­Ameren UE customers will pay approximately 18 percent more for their natural gas this month after the Missouri Public Service Commission signed off on the higher rate — effective Nov. 1.

Noah Medling, a 22-year-old Add Sheet employee, doesn’t care if his 50,000-word untitled fantasy novel written in November 2004 will ever be read by him or anyone else. “I don’t want to look at that thing again,” Medling said. “It’s that bad.”

After sweeping over the Trowbridge parking lot and touching down in a large field bordering Old 63, the rotors of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter slowly came to a stop.

Football fans caused about $5,900 in damage to Faurot Field when they stormed it after Missouri beat Nebraska last month, said Chad Moller, athletic department spokesman.

The Columbia Fire Department responded to a house fire at a duplex late Tuesday evening.

It was just one game, an exhibition one at that, but Thomas Gardner didn’t care if the win never shows up on this year’s record.

It’s something Missouri coach Gary Pinkel is fond of saying: football games in the Big 12 Conference are almost always close. Both teams will have tough moments. The team that wins is usually the team that responds to them better.

After four straight wins, the Rock Bridge football team has all the momentum a team could want, but not the respect it feels it deserves. In the past two weeks, the Bruins have earned victories against Jefferson City and Hickman. Coach A.J. Ofodile called the victories “the first two big wins of this group’s career.” However, one final test remains. One final opportunity for all that momentum to disappear.

The Missouri volleyball team was determined not to beat itself twice in one week and against Texas Tech on Wednesday at Hearnes Center they returned to form, defeating the Red Raiders 30-18, 30-18, 30-19.

Former Missouri player Linas Kleiza was activated by the Denver Nuggets prior to Wednesday’s game against Los Angeles. The move comes after Nuggets forward Nene suffered a season-ending knee injury during the season opener on Tuesday.

During college basketball season, Alvin Muse Sr. can be found traveling interstates throughout the Midwest. With two sons playing Division II basketball, he’s traveled to many schools.

Early in the season, Josh McNutt searched for his brother, Ryan, who at 6 feet, 1 inch, is lanky with sandy-blond hair and a square jaw. Ryan looks just like Josh. They are twins.

Hundreds of music students and teachers from Missouri will be on the MU campus today through Sunday for the 2005 Missouri Music Teachers Association state conference.