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With dawn breaking on another season of high school wrestling, the wrestlers at Rock Bridge High School are doing their part to get an early start on their competition.

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Rams interim coach Joe Vitt has been coy all week about whether rookie Ryan Fitzpatrick had earned his first career start.

KANSAS CITY — Ryan Sims hasn’t exactly slimmed down. Going from 315 pounds to 310 hardly qualifies as an ad campaign for a trendy new reducing salon.

JEFFERSON CITY — A federal judge allowed Missouri’s 24-hour abortion waiting period to take effect Wednesday but continued to bar a part of the 2003 law that mandated what abortion physicians must discuss with their patients.

It was a beautiful day for a drive in the country.

With a moderate climate year-round, a scenic location on the coast of the Yellow Sea and a majestic mountain range that includes the picturesque Mount Laoshan, the city of Laoshan, China, has no problem attracting tourists from around the globe. Hsiao-Mae Weidmeyer, however, hopes it also can attract the attention of the city of Columbia.

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri children will be required to wear booster seat restraints if a major transportation safety bill expected for the upcoming legislative session passes.

Obesity in children is a growing problem in Missouri, and local health officials are about to unfurl a new arsenal of programs to combat the fat.

The YouZeum, a planned science center intended to help children learn about healthy lifestyles, got a $750,000 booster shot from the federal government Wednesday.

A packed house at the Tiger Hotel ballroom participated in a town hall-style debate over the land management policies of the Bonne Femme watershed.

Designs are complete for the $2.5 million renovation and expansion of the historic Wabash Station bus depot at Tenth and Ash streets. The plans, in the works since 1999, were released last week.

Boone County officials voted Tuesday to continue using a formula adopted in 1997 to determine their salaries. The formula calls for the salaries of the county’s elected officials to increase accordingly with raises granted by the Boone County Commission to county employees.

JEFFERSON CITY — Recent cuts and eligibility reductions to Missouri Medicaid affect women the most, said a report released Wednesday by the National Women’s Law Center.

After just seven months on the job, the director of Missouri’s Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control announced his resignation Wednesday.

Today is World AIDS Day, internationally recognized to raise awareness about the still prominent AIDS epidemic. Local public health officials, however, worry that on this day, like so many this year, the world will continue to remain apathetic or silent about this deadly disease.

The 19-year-old vice president-elect of MU’s student government might face penalties from the university for a picture of herself drinking beer that she posted on Facebook, an online social network for some college campuses.

Mid-Missourians and Columbia College students gathered in Dulany Hall’s Banquet Room on Wednesday night to discuss poverty, hunger and health in the developing world.

Here are snapshots of local initiatives that will involve eight local organizations during the next two years:

Six of the 21 people charged with second-degree trespassing for illegally entering Faurot Field after the Oct. 22 MU-Nebraska football game entered guilty pleas this morning in Columbia Municipal Court, resulting in fines of $250 or 10 hours of community service.