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Bob Pugh walked to the microphone at a crowded Sophia’s restaurant Tuesday night after his son Doug had joked with the audience about his father always being gone at “important” meetings when he was a child.

The bus door swings open as 48 fourth-graders come tramping down the aisle, holding onto guide-rails and bumping into each other.

Wendy Batson has her head in the humanities. Swathi Bhaskaran has hers in engineering. Together, they are Hickman High School’s top two students academically in the class of 2006.

School’s out at last for the 17,000 or so students in the Columbia Public School District. At Parkade Elementary School on Wednesday, students competed against their teachers in the annual volleyball game.

Viticetum: v-i-t-i-c-e-t-u-m. The correct spelling of the word — a growth or plantation of vines, especially grapevines — was not enough for Sidhant Misra to advance to round three of the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee held in Washington.

County Public Works crews and contractors will be busy this summer after the Boone County Commission on Tuesday approved significant improvements to more than two dozen roads. The projects collectively will cost about $1.9 million.

Two years ago Missouri dairy farmers were experiencing cream-of-the-crop milk prices. The profitable conditions were an incentive for dairy farmers to invest in more cows and increase production.

FULTON – Otis McKinney was working so hard at two jobs to support his family that he was rarely involved in disciplining his 7-year-old stepson and 3-year-old daughter, his defense attorney said.

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals put some more distance between themselves and their top rival in the NL Central, the Houston Astros.

KANSAS CITY — Had he been willing to wait, Dayton Moore might one day have headed one of the most admired organizations in baseball.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Lance Armstrong called it a “witch hunt” from the beginning, saying a French newspaper used dubious evidence to accuse him of doping, even charging that lab officials mishandled his samples and broke the rules.