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The Hickman track team is used to walking out the back doors of its school and down a small grassy hill for practice on the track at Hickman Stadium. On Wednesday, though, the team traveled by bus across town and up a slightly larger hill to the Rock Bridge track for its daily practice.

Tony Palmer has always been large. His mother, Adrianne Gaines, said she noticed that when Palmer was just days old.

When two undefeated teams face each other, strange things can happen.

For Thomas Schuenemeyer and Kyle Kovar, Wednesday’s round of golf together was typical. Schuenemeyer and Kovar go out to play golf with each other, usually once a week. They play even more in the summer.

As a catcher for the Columbia College softball team, Stephanie Stowe is used to people barreling down the third base line at her so they can get to home plate. But, in the other sport that Stowe grew up playing, physical play was also a part of the game. There were body checks and fighting and spearing, not to mention a frozen puck flying through the air at speeds in excess of 100 mph.

Strutting back and forth across the gymnasium floor, 11-year-old Antonio Ingram is getting into character. As “Anthony” in Columbia’s Moving Ahead Theatre Troupe’s production of “Lil’ Man & Mookie,” Ingram is doing his best impression of a lawyer, wearing his nicest shirt, neatly pressed and tucked in, and pacing in front of the “jury” with his hands folded behind his back.

Coffee to go. Arrive early. Take a cell phone call. Be enthusiastic. That’s how one of Popular Science’s Brilliant Ten, Dr. Kevin Eggan, prepares for a lecture on identifying and curing neurological diseases.

No matter the language they’re spoken in, facts are facts: The demand for foreign-language court interpreters in Boone County is increasing, just as mid-Missouri is about to lose its only state-certified interpreter.

WASHINGTON — Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon said Wednesday he will file a lawsuit this week to stop plans for a man-made spring rise on the Missouri River.

A 13th Judicial Circuit judge ordered the Columbia Daily Tribune on Wednesday to turn over unpublished photos that show the last practice of MU football player Aaron O’Neal’s life to attorneys on both sides of a wrongful death lawsuit.

Peckham and Wright Architects on Tenth Street celebrated the eco-friendly renovation of its building with an art show and silent auction Wednesday to benefit the Central Missouri Food Bank, Alzheimer’s Association Missouri Chapter and the Rainbow House.

The planned construction of an intersection at Route K and Scott Boulevard might be delayed if the city, county and state cannot cover cost overruns.