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The Missouri volleyball team defeated Missouri State 30-27, 30-18, 30-26 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Friday at Hearnes Center in front of 6,294 people, the second largest crowd in MU volleyball history.

Missouri erased a double digit deficit in the second half of Friday night’s game in Fayetteville, but Arkansas ultimately held on for a 66-63 victory.

JEFFERSON CITY — The state no longer would be able to take private land for economic purposes, under a new proposal by the governor’s task force on eminent domain.

The percentage of Columbia students who graduated from public high schools last year is slightly lower than the state average, according to the 2004-2005 School Accountability Report Card released Thursday.

Six of the 21 people charged with second-degree trespassing for illegally entering Faurot Field after the Oct. 22 MU-Nebraska football game were sentenced Thursday in municipal court to fines of $250 or 10 hours of community service plus $22.50 in court costs.

A crowd of roughly 30 students gathered at MU’s Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center on Thursday, the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, to say thank you to Rosa Parks and other civil rights leaders who took up the struggle for equality.

KANSAS CITY — The top 10 percent of Missouri high school graduates will automatically be eligible to enroll at any of the four UM campuses after a vote by the University of Missouri System’s Board of Curators on Thursday.

A motion by Columbia Daily Tribune columnist Tony Messenger was overruled Wednesday, indicating he might have to answer a defense attorney’s questions about an interview he conducted with an accused killer.

For African painter Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao, art and diplomacy go together as well as the steamed rice and spicy tomato stew of his native Nigeria.

The first woman to serve as a circuit judge in Missouri and the only woman to serve as a circuit judge in Missouri’s 13th Judicial Circuit announced Thursday that she will retire after her term expires Dec. 31.

City Prosecutor Rose Wibbenmeyer deferred prosecution against one of the University of Kansas students involved in an altercation last spring at an MU men’s basketball game, effectively dismissing the case.

John Schopflin, the owner of U.S. Cleaners, says his gas bills have increased by hundreds of dollars during the last four months. His year-round Columbia dry cleaning business relies on a water boiler that runs on natural gas.

An early morning fire caused $600,000 in damage to a house in southern Boone County on Thursday, according to Boone County Fire Protection District Capt. Gale Blomenkamp. The fire appeared to have been caused by leaf embers blown against the garage after a shift in wind direction.

Phil Steinhaus will be the new chief executive officer of the Columbia Housing Authority.

Seven members of an MU fraternity turned themselves into campus police Thursday for stealing more than 1,500 copies of a student newspaper earlier this week.

Local businessman and Democrat Duane Burghard on Friday morning formally announced his candidacy for the Ninth Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Flanked by a quilt with the head shots of Missourians executed on death row, Jeff Stack led members of the Mid-Missouri Fellowship for Reconciliation in an effort to raise awareness of the frequent use of the death penalty in the United States.

A Boone County grand jury on Friday indicted two Columbia men charged with stabbing a 19-year-old man last August.

KANSAS CITY — Elson Floyd, president of the University of Missouri System, proposed on Friday reducing administrative costs by 10 percent in the system and on each of the four campuses.

At 5 feet 2 inches tall, Venicia Vaughn hardly looks like she belongs on the basketball court for the Stephens College Stars (2-8), much less as the team captain and the starting point guard.