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Columbia will join the ranks of renowned jazz venues across the country this weekend as part of National Public Radio’s live coast-to-coast New Year’s Eve celebration, “Toast of the Nation,” which will also feature the first national music broadcast from New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

MU professor R. Michael Roberts was named one of the top 50 researchers, business and policy leaders in the world in Scientific American magazine’s December issue.

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Matt Blunt on Wednesday named a Montgomery County judge to the Missouri Court of Appeals’ Eastern District in St. Louis.

Seventy-eight additional men will be able to enter substance-abuse treatment through Phoenix Programs thanks to a $100,000 grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health.

A Columbia woman arrested on suspicion of stabbing a man in the chest has been released from the Boone County Jail.

Natalie Akins sits back, looking over her work, pulls hard on her cigarette and smiles through watery eyes.

Chad Herwald has a secret to saving money on heating bills this winter. It’s not profound. It’s not magical. It’s trees.

SHREVEPORT, La. — After three days of light-hearted, fun-filled activities, Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel and his team have officially set their game face.

Usually a coach empties the bench in the waning minutes of a blowout, allowing those relegated to mop-up duty, whether in a romp of a win or defeat, playing time and experience.

Becoming a Division I athlete is quite an accomplishment for a member of anyone’s family. But in Bil Duany’s family, it’s rather ordinary.

The Hickman boys’ basketball team lost Wednesday night in the second round of the 16-team Neosho Tournament, falling 73-56 to top seed Cypress, a top Texas team from Houston that boasts a 7-foot-2 center and a 23-2 record.