Articles

When Donni Mize bought Heart to Heart Christian Supply in 2002, she wanted to play an important role in her customers’ lives.

Former Presiding Circuit Judge Frank Conley and former Boone County Prosecuting Attorney Joe Moseley will co-chair a new Boone County Courthouse Expansion Committee.

A Columbia man was driving away from the scene of an accident he caused when his car hit a concrete traffic light support early Thursday morning, said Columbia police Sergeant Tim Moriarity, supervisor of the traffic unit.

Charges against a Fulton man were dropped Wednesday due to a lack of evidence.

JEFFERSON CITY — Even a measure commemorating a civil rights giant couldn’t escape the political skirmish over the sale of Missouri’s student loan agency.

The 2006 legislative session began last month, but judging by the questions posed at a town meeting with state legislators, citizen concern and outrage still remain over actions from the 2005 session.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has triggered a debate over the mix of drugs used to carry out death sentences, with the justices delaying three executions and giving hope of eleventh-hour reprieves to other inmates.

SAFAGA, Egypt (AP) - An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying nearly 1,500 people sank in the Red Sea early Friday during bad weather, and rescue ships and helicopters pulled dozens of survivors and bodies from the water. At least 203 escaped on lifeboats, the transport minister said.

Valerie Rao, medical examiner for Boone and Callaway counties, has resigned effective March 31, citing personal and family reasons.

A group of 24 MU elementary education students barely made it home from a trip to Kansas City when an engine fire stopped them just short of Stadium Boulevard.

Several pediatricians from University Hospital will host an open community forum hoping to schedule appointments for uninsured and underinsured children.

GOP leaders ended plans for a fundraising program Wednesday that invited lobbyists into round-table discussions with state legislators in exchange for sizable campaign donations.

The position of director of University Hospital and Clinics is being dissolved in an effort to streamline the organization.

MU Chancellor Brady Deaton defended the need for tuition increases, saying a lot has changed in the way higher education is financed.

A series of hearings on the partial sale of assets by the nonprofit Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority will be held around the state, Attorney General Jay Nixon said today.?

Roundabouts are something of a transportation oddity, a distant European cousin of our traditional American intersections. Yet after nearly six years, they have become a welcome addition for Columbia drivers.

LaToya Bond said she was just hoping the shot would go in.

Imagine standing on a 4-inch-wide beam, 4-feet off the ground in front of thousands of people.

One win. That’s the grand total of road victories the Tigers had in their eight Big 12 Conference road games last season. So on Jan. 10, when the Tigers headed to Norman, Okla., to face the then-No. 22 ranked Sooners in this season’s first conference road game, a win didn’t seem likely.