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Neither junior Tiffany Harris nor freshman Katherine Harry had much of a chance to show their stuff in net on Monday night.

The Hickman girls’ soccer team defeated host Smith-Cotton 3-0 on Monday. The Kewpies (10-5-4) scored all three of their goals in the second half.

The recurring theme of Monday night’s inaugural meeting on creating a vision for the future of Columbia was simple: Get the entire community involved.

A group of Columbia eighth-graders stumbled upon the body of a woman while on a field trip Monday near Devil’s Icebox at Rock Bridge Memorial State Park.

A mid-Missouri Marine was killed in the line of duty in Iraq on Saturday.

Dressed in civilian attire and seated alongside his defense attorneys, Ernest Lee Johnson, 45, faced a projector screen Monday in the 13th Judicial Circuit Court and watched himself being interviewed by a psychologist in 2004. At the time of the interview, he was wearing a black-and-white-striped jumpsuit. On Monday, Johnson didn’t say anything as he and the rest of the courtroom watched. The video spoke for itself.

Columbia Public Schools will have to use more than $6 million dollars from reserve funds to meet its projected expenditures for the 2006-07 school year budget, according to a presentation at Monday’s school board meeting.

Toni Messina, who has 27 years of experience in state government, has been appointed Columbia’s director of communications, effective May 22.

When the UM System Board of Curators next meets, members are likely to discuss possible changes to the role they play in intercollegiate athletics.