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Comparisons to an NBA player while still in high school can be a hard thing to live up to, just ask UMKC’s Quinton Day.

KANSAS CITY — The half-eaten hot dog that sat on Gunther Cunningham’s desk overnight was looking awfully stale.

ST. LOUIS — Out of high school, the choice was easy for Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Throughout the season Missouri volleyball player Tatum Ailes has sacrificed her body to dig balls that appeared unreachable, and at times she has been brought to tears after landing in awkward positions.

Richard Schwartz, dean of MU’s College of Arts and Science, will step down from his position this summer. With extra time in his schedule, he said he plans to promote his four crime novels, which are being reissued over the next year by Midnight Ink.

Despite an overall decrease in drunken driving among college students, a study by an MU researcher has found that many will drink and drive despite the consequences.

When the people of Pascagoula, Miss., woke on Aug. 30, many had just experienced the most terrifying event of their lives: Hurricane Katrina. Most of what they owned had been torn to pieces in the previous day’s maelstrom or was being slowly eaten away by the corrosive mixture of salt water and sewage that had flooded their home as they helplessly waited, wondering whether anything would be salvageable.

Public housing residents on Park Avenue will not have to move out of their apartments for at least two years, even if the Columbia Housing Authority decides to demolish and rebuild the 70 existing homes as has been proposed. Consultants to the housing authority task force told residents Monday that any construction would most likely not begin until 2008.

Boone County prosecuting attorney Kevin Crane said he would like to hire a new assistant prosecutor to lighten the workload in the office. Although there is funding available for the new position, the prosecuting attorney’s office in the Boone County Courthouse does not have enough space to accommodate another staff member.

The identity of a 21-year-old man who was killed Sunday after driving his pickup truck off the road on Old 63 South was released by Columbia police Monday morning.