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The Missouri Baseball team waited until what could have been its last game of the season to play its longest.

In the first round of the 48th annual Phil Cotton Invitational, being tied for the lead with first round scores of 66 isn’t the only thing John Kelly and Ben Godwin have in common.

Bill Clark sat on a folding chair in Clark’s Gym watching Abe Smith balance a 275-pound barbell over his head.

The results are in from May’s visioning forum, and according to a report by ACP Visioning and Planning, residents strongly support creating a vision for Columbia’s future.

FULTON — A Callaway County jury found Otis McKinney guilty today on four charges of child abuse and endangerment for helping his wife, Erma McKinney, put her 6-year-old son in a scalding hot shower as punishment for misbehavior at school.

Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., has officially announced his bid for re-election.

The MU School of Health Professions opened a second location and announced a new name for its adult day care services at a Friday ceremony. The second location is at the Intersection on Sexton Road. The Intersection doubles as a community center offering after-school programs for children. It is nearly twice as big as the original adult day care center in MU’s Clark Hall. The school will change the name of its service from Eldercare to the Adult Day Connection to reflect the age span of people served by the program.

Attorney General Jay Nixon filed criminal charges against five mid-Missouri residents Friday, which accuses them of defrauding 11 farmers in Missouri and other states by promising to sell the farmers high-quality cattle for $1 million.

For years, building owners have individually removed small pieces of the gray concrete canopy that lines Broadway. But this summer, city workers will be taking down the remaining 55 sections of the canopy and they have a deadline: Aug. 15.

City officials announced their support Friday for a proposal by national carrier RegionsAir to provide four weekday round-trip flights from Columbia to St. Louis. The proposal would require $728,438 in annual subsidies from the federal government.

The sound of Kenyan music played softly and the smell of beef stew spread throughout the house as Bryan Ogweno, senior class president of 2006 at Rock Bridge High School, stood in the entrance. He welcomed­ — with a wide grin — friends and family to his graduation party.

As Philip Makarewicz addressed the graduates, families and friends at the Hickman High School graduation ceremony on Saturday, he emphasized the importance of believing in one’s choices as life progresses and stressed the importance of friendship.

One early spring morning, Brad Clemons introduced the students in his 11th grade English class at Christian Fellowship School to “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” a poem by T.S. Eliot.

After 48 years, Art in the Park arrived Saturday at Stephens Lake Park, where the Columbia Art League hopes it will stay for good.

Seven years ago, Rick Recht was giving a guitar lesson to the director of a Jewish summer camp when his student offered him a job.