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If you’ve waited until the last minute letting nap time and work take priority to this taxing task, it’s OK. Take a deep breath. You can e-file, that is get them done online for free if you fit certain criteria. So if taxes confuse you, you might want to keep reading.

The following is a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder aboard United Airlines Flight 93. All times are in EDT on Sept. 11, 2001. Text in parentheses was translated from Arabic. “Unintelligible” indicates that the tape couldn’t be transcribed.

MU’s nationally lauded Campus Writing Program — which faces dramatic change with the simultaneous departure of its directors — is likely to get a vote of confidence today by the MU Faculty Council. This comes at a time when faculty involved with the program are worrying privately and aloud about its fate.

Panelists at the Chancellor’s Global Issues Forum on Wednesday raised tough questions about journalistic practices, from the protection of sources to objectivity in reporting.

Elton Fay’s youngest daughter, Whitney, was in kindergarten at Two Mile Prairie Elementary School when he won his first three-year term on the Columbia School Board. Twelve years later, Whitney is preparing to graduate from Hickman High School, and Fay’s tenure on the school board is over.

Monday’s tax deadline is closing fast, but tax-payers in 37 counties in Missouri — including Boone County — have an extra month to turn in their taxes.

Today marks the first full day of Passover, the eight-day commemoration of the Jewish exodus from Egypt.

ST. LOUIS — When Ameren Corp. officials faced the prospect of closing the Taum Sauk reservoir in the months before its December collapse, they had more than just safety to consider. That’s because Ameren’s annual bonus policy strongly favors keeping plants running over closing them for safety concerns.

Mayor Darwin Hindman will go to China next month to see for himself Columbia’s proposed fifth sister city. He is likely to make the relationship official then.

Anyone walking into Stotler lounge at Memorial Union at the MU campus Wednesday would have thought they stepped into a combination of a video game arcade and an underground rave party, complete with flashing lights.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial listened Wednesday to a recording of terrified shouts and cries in the cockpit as desperate passengers twice charged panicked hijackers during the final half hour of United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001.

Columbia police on Wednesday were investigating the second home invasion in the past week after four armed men entered an apartment Tuesday and stole an undisclosed amount of money.

JEFFERSON CITY — Legislators in the House and Senate took initial steps Wednesday toward limiting the use of eminent domain and tax breaks in certain redevelopment projects.

On the last play of the Missouri softball team’s 4-0 win over Kansas on Wednesday at University Field, Jayhawks pinch hitter Ashley Goodrich tapped a ground ball between home plate and the pitcher’s circle. Missouri pitcher Jen Bruck rushed off the mound and grabbed the ball with her right hand, then tossed it over to first. The throw, though a little soft, got Goodrich at first to end the game.

When the Hickman baseball team takes the field a familiar name appears on the lineup at catcher: Steponovich. Only now, Bart Steponovich has taken the place of his older brother, Nick Steponovich.

The question on the minds of fans of the Rock Bridge baseball team is whether or not the Bruins finally have the team to beat Hickman, which has been seemingly unstoppable in recent years.

Zane Taylor’s 200th hit came as a surprise.

Stephanie Stowe and her bat proved to be crucial for the Columbia College softball team in a doubleheader sweep of Culver-Stockton College on Wednesday. However, Stowe and her bat almost didn’t get the chance.

Goals come easily to Jake Tillitt. At least, he makes them look easy.