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LINCOLN, Neb. — College basketball was the furthest thing from Aleks Maric’s mind growing up in Sydney, Australia.

There’s a reason Texas Tech’s LaToya Davis is widely considered one of the best post players in the Big 12 Conference . Missouri saw firsthand why on Saturday.

Some losses hurt more than others.

Former Mizzou offensive lineman, A.J. Ricker, is with his third team in as many leagues.

At 10 years old, Rico Prince has already mastered a swagger like an NBA pro.

Friday night at the Columbia Boxing Club was business as usual. The seven young men practicing that night changed clothes in the Bear Creek Community Center’s bathrooms, ran laps outside and met back at the center’s makeshift ring for warm-up exercises.

Fonja Runer has been managing the Homestead Motel for three years. She’s never known a Boonville without a casino. But as the closest hotel to Isle of Capri, the Homestead has certainly seen its share of tourists in town for the riverboat’s bright lights.

A Saturday morning accident stopped traffic on eastbound Interstate 70 for about two hours.

Five somber men of the Missouri Task Force stood silently on the lawn outside the Boone County Fire Protection District headquarters Friday afternoon while fire Chief Steve Paulsell spoke about Willis Smith, former president of the Fire District’s Board of Directors. It was Paulsell’s first time publicly speaking about Smith, a man some said was a father figure in Paulsell’s life, since Smith’s death.

The University of Missouri System Board of Curators on Friday placed the final stamp of approval on the Student Center Project, more commonly known as the Brady Commons expansion.

MU is taking a step to further establish its global connections by opening the first U.S. environmental and energy technology — ENTECH — office in Beijing on March 13.

Dayton sits isolated in the corner at a desk of his own. But don’t assume he’s in trouble; he just works better without the distraction of neighbors. The two children standing don’t have trouble seeing the board; they just concentrate better vertically. The scratching sound you hear isn’t a class pet; it’s Amy, compulsively sliding her hand across a strip of Velcro secured beneath her desk to help her focus. And, the gum cracking that can be heard over the hum of the white noise machine doesn’t bother the teacher. In fact, neither do the children spread on the floor reading or painting with a partner or talking quietly in groups.

The discovery of a new chemical reaction led Robert Grubbs to a life changing career. It won him the Nobel Prize in chemistry and international recognition.

Carlos Watson, a political analyst for CNN, said regardless of skin color, the only way for people to succeed in the new century is to discover what they love to do regardless of risk.

Four fire trucks were called to Old Chicago restaurant at 1710 I-70 Drive S.W. early Saturday evening. Kitchen employees noticed smoke in the kitchen, which prompted general manager Tim Henderson to call 911 and evacuate the restaurant, he said.

A man being pursued by the Missouri State Highway Patrol and a deputy from the Boone County Sheriff’s Department were injured in a high-speed car chase Friday afternoon on U.S. 63.

Two bomb threats at MU on Friday afternoon interrupted the end of the second week of instruction for students and staff. Between 2:57 and 3 p.m., Gannett and Gwynn halls received phoned bomb threats, which were then reported to MU police, said Capt. Scott Richardson. MU police were investigating the source of the calls, Richardson said.