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This time around, the Tigers didn’t hit, getting only four in a 5-1 loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday at University Field.

Rock Bridge seniors shone with the sun at the Columbia Quad Duals on Friday.

The Missouri baseball team lost 8-6 to Oklahoma State on Saturday in Norman, Okla., after falling 6-4 in Friday’s series opener. The loss marks the third consecutive Big 12 Conference series that Missouri has dropped.

Hickman and Rock Bridge high schools have had a rivalry since 1973, when Rock Bridge opened its doors for its first school year.

Fourteen men crouched at the line, waiting for the heart-stopping sound of the starter’s gun to begin the 1500-meter race. It was the final event of the men’s decathlon of the 3rd Annual Audrey Walton Combined Event Carnival, and the pressure was on. Although each competitor used everything they had left, only one was going for a record.

Stephen Taylor had been waiting, and training, for this day for six months. He and his girlfriend, Rachel Biber, rose at 5 a.m. on April 9 in the city of Tempe, Az. The two were going to compete in one of the toughest Ironman competitions in the country, the Ford Ironman Arizona.

The Missouri football team will have one returning starter in the defensive backfield this season. But if Alex Woodley had kept himself on the field last season, that number might be two.

WWE wrestler Gene Snitsky was in attendance at Saturday’s game. Snitsky, who was an offensive tackle with Missouri from 1988 to 1992, was shown on the video board at Memorial Stadium before the start of the second half. Wearing a red “Raw is War” tank top, Snitsky flexed his pectoral muscles for the crowd. He was in the process of taking his shirt off before the video board switched to other subjects.

Chase Daniel was upset. He really only had one reason.

Heather Carver is laughing about her cancer treatment.

Murphy’s law took over while the Columbia Fire Department was conducting its annual fire-hydrant test on Saturday.

He’s a wiry fifth-grader who looks you in the eye when he talks to you and spends most of his free time outside, playing sports.

Alex Gittemeier didn’t get any eggs during the egg hunt. However, winning the sack race paid him back with an award in the form of five candies.

A Columbia man was arrested Saturday morning after he kicked in a door and used a screwdriver and the lid to a barbecue grill to assault a man at a residence in the 700 block of Demaret Drive, according to sheriff’s deputies.

Although this year’s phone book listings for paint manufacturers do not include the Mid-Missouri Solid Waste Management District, they may in a few years.

After years of discussion, public hearings and frustration with slow progress, the Columbia City Council will vote Monday on a $29.8 million plan to widen a 2.8-mile stretch of Missouri 763, also known as Range Line Street, from Big Bear Boulevard north to U.S. 63.

JEFFERSON CITY — A bill up for a vote in the House Higher Education Committee on Tuesday could delay House Republican leaders’ plans to appropriate funds from MOHELA asset sales for higher education.

This crime is, quite literally, a cash cow for criminals. Now it’s a problem for Boone County, too.

KANSAS CITY — Federal authorities have opened an investigation into the state’s license fee offices and whether they were improperly awarded to Gov. Matt Blunt’s political supporters, The Kansas City Star reported Saturday.