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Members of the Missouri Symphony Society hope to use $125,000 in Community Development Block Grant money to install an elevator at the Missouri Theatre.

The threat of rain was not enough to put out the fire of Joe Welling’s flame-juggling performance Thursday night at The District’s Twilight Festival.

It drizzled as Saxon Brown and her friend Cat Coyne, both 16, glued slips of paper on playing cards Thursday. They were creating advertisements for the Youth March for Peace on Tuesday, which Brown, who just finished her sophomore year at Hickman High School, organized.

Ragtime music was born in Missouri more than 100 years ago and has influenced everything from jazz to hip-hop . This year’s Blind Boone Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival, which starts Sunday at the Missouri Theatre, will show that ragtime has since become popular around the world.

Pitcher Max Scherzer was running around his house Monday night anticipating the Tigers trip to Malibu, Calif., and the Pepperdine Regional of the NCAA baseball tournament.

Monica Massey chose Stephens College last fall. She was from a small school and didn’t want to be overwhelmed by a larger school atmosphere. She didn’t think she would play sports while in college. She didn’t think she was good enough to play at the college level.

The Blair Oaks Falcons won the Class 2 state baseball championship, beating the South Pemiscot Bulldogs 4-2 Thursday night at Taylor Stadium.

As athletes, coaches and fans from around the globe are preparing to travel to Germany for the World Cup, some Missourians are preparing for a soccer tournament of their own.

Eleven years ago today Verona resident Mary Twitty completed the last portion of her three-month hike on the Appalachian Trail.

It’s not unusual for 40 or more Ashland students to gather at the Southern Boone County Public Library after school. When a severe storm approaches, the library staff takes the children half a block down the street to the Ashland Baptist Church basement.

Mid-Missouri Crisis Line officials and volunteers are working overtime to fill the spots of students who left for the summer.

Piece by piece, the hidden ruins of the frontier settlement of Lexington are coming together.

City employees will have a little more breathing room thanks to a renovation completed this week on the Howard Municipal Building.

Eighteen people have been selected by Mayor Darwin Hindman to serve on a committee that will develop an affordable housing policy for the city and identify ways to encourage it in Columbia.

The Columbia woman was among those injured Thursday evening in an eight-vehicle accident on Interstate 70 that killed four Kansas City residents.