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In the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday, Missouri’s Jacob Priday drilled his 45th hit of the season deep to left field. The single extended his hitting streak to 14 games, which is the longest on the team and a career best for Priday.

The Columbia College softball team’s win streak ended at a record 28 after the Cougars split a pair of games on Friday at the Oklahoma City Classic. Columbia beat Rogers State 4-3 before falling to No. 3 Oklahoma City 8-0 in five innings. Miriam Wegmann posted the Cougars’ only hit of the game, a double.

Hickman started and ended well. But during the innings in between, Francis Howell was too much for the Kewpies, who lost 6-3 Saturday at Hickman.

High school lacrosse players were among the group of fans gathered Saturday afternoon at Stankowski Field to watch the Missouri lacrosse club team play Illinois. Splashes of Hickman purple filled the crowd that came to see Missouri play just its third home game of the season.

Playing at No. 2 singles, Rock Bridge senior Ryan Olson found himself leading 9-8 in a tiebreaker against Liberty’s Daniel Orr on Friday. It was the last singles match of the day, with the Bruins leading 4-1. Olson knew if he won, Rock Bridge would advance to Saturday’s championship match at the Mid-Missouri Invitational at Bethel Park.

Kim James was 17 when she first learned what a midwife does. Though she still can’t place her finger on it, she knew it was what she wanted to be.

Though it’s such a small place, there is enough energy in Eastside Tavern to split a face in two. With horror movie figurines watching from elevated shelves, a Darth Vader cutout taped to the door and a plastic bust of Elvis sitting next to a demonic Santa Claus statuette, Eastside projects definite attitude.

JEFFERSON CITY — Legislators both supporting and opposing the sale of student loans to pay for various state projects have raised questions about whether the loan board can give money to the state legislature — particularly if the money will be used for projects other student loans.

A Columbia man was apprehended Friday night after escaping from the Boone County Sheriff’s Department’s custody at University Hospital and fleeing through the MU campus, according to a release from the sheriff’s department.

Green are the shoots of asparagus, planted in long rows next to patches of strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, that will ripen through the summer months.

Christy McPherson’s smile is not the product of her rescue. Her heavy gloves, hiding strong hands and the bursting sinews of veiny fingers, are more a part of a game then the conclusion of some drawn-out operation.

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Itch mites grabbed public attention in 2004 after an outbreak of bites from the tiny parasites befell several members of the Pittsburgh State University and Western State College of Colorado football teams.

The sounds of off-key singing, clapping hands and people playing games fill the interior of Eldercare inside MU’s Clark Hall on a typical weekday afternoon.

While listening to some musical recordings a professor gave her last summer, MU graduate teaching assistant Emily Edgington came across a piece of music by Erich Zeisl, a Jewish composer who was forced to abandon his career during the Nazi regime.

The Kramer family is on a first-name basis with a pit bull that lives a short way down the road from them. Her name is Bella.

During Mardis Gras this year, New Orleans native and Columbia resident Judy Schermer began thinking about how homesick the people who relocated to Columbia after Hurricane Katrina must be.