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MySpace, a free Web site created as a cyber community where people can meet and correspond, announced several weeks ago that it removed 200,000 members’ profiles because of objectionable content.

JEFFERSON CITY — After Sara Barwinski sat through a committee hearing last month on a bill to change Missouri’s eminent domain regulations, she said she overheard a lobbyist and a developer talking about the progress of legislation.

University Terrace Apartments residents were informed Thursday that UM System President Elson Floyd’s request to extend the relocation deadline from December 2006 to June 2007 was accepted by UM Health Care CEO Jim Ross.

The scientific and political communities aren’t the only ones weighing in on stem cell issues. Followers of the world’s major religions also have a take, which can in turn influence the scientists and the politicians. The following chronicles central beliefs of Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism and Islam concerning the issue of stem cell research. It doesn’t take into account polar sects or variations of each religion.

The following is a list of diseases for which researchers say embryonic stem cells could potentially lead to cures through somatic cell nuclear transfer. This process takes isolated somatic cells from a patient and tranfers them to a donated egg. The created embryo is allowed to grow into a blastocyst, from which cells are plucked and cultured. These cells can then be turned (or differentiated) into tissue cells for the same patient.

A sweet gum tree in the full leaf of spring, its boughs overarching Lowry Mall and just cresting the Fine Arts Building roof, was dedicated Thursday in memory of an MU researcher who was murdered last year in a campus parking garage.

After nearly 10 years of working and waiting, Tricia Brock’s dream project is about to hit theaters. Her first major movie, “Killer Diller,” opens today at Stadium Theatres in Columbia, as well as select theaters in St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis and Nashville.

JEFFERSON CITY — A proposal to cap state funding for colleges and universities at 2002 fiscal year levels is still a possibility, even as the legislature enters its last two weeks of the session.

The following is a list of the 64 diseases that researchers have used adult stem cells to treat. Adult stem cells are different from embryonic stem cells in that they usually form other stem cells identical to themselves.

Two people were killed when a semi truck rear-ended a car and a van on Interstate 70 between East St. Charles Road and U.S. 63 about 9:15 Friday morning.

Thomas Murray says the most valuable attributes in sports are natural talent and the way in which an athlete works to perfect that talent. Steroid use undermines the spirit of sports and disrupts the beauty of hard work and natural ability, Murray said in a Thursday lecture at MU.

A lone temporary tent was erected on the north concourse of Memorial Stadium in mid-April for an autograph session before the Black and Gold game. Brad Smith, Missouri’s star quarterback over the past four years, was making his last public appearance before this weekend’s NFL draft.

At a recent Missouri track and field practice, coach Rebecca Wilmes brought out a golden baton. Although the baton itself was nothing out of the ordinary, its familiarity depends on the carrier. On Wednesday, even the distance runners were practicing handoffs in preparation for the Tigers’ trip to the 97th-annual Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Columbia College softball team won its first two games of the American Midwest Conference Tournament on Thursday at Springfield-Illinois.

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.