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The failure of the red left-turn signal at Chapel Hill Road and Forum Boulevard that contributed to a fatal car crash in May was “just bad luck,” Columbia Streets Superintendent Jim McKinnon said, and won’t prompt changes in how the city tracks problems with lights.

No one has been charged in an accident on Interstate 70 that killed two people and injured another nearly seven weeks ago because of a backlog in accident investigations at the Columbia Police Department and the complexity of the crash.

The Boone County Mental Health Board of Trustees is exploring funding options, including a tax, to fill mental health service gaps outlined by a 2004 needs assessment. But the board is still trying to identify what groups of people should be on the receiving end of the funding.

Jim Campbell has always been athletic. He started surfing, racing motorcycles and playing racquetball in his 20s. But after being diagnosed with Alport’s syndrome, a hereditary condition that causes progressive kidney damage, Campbell underwent a kidney transplant in 1974.

When Christiane Quinn and her husband, James, moved to Columbia from Michigan in 1996, they were delighted to find a brick bungalow-style house on the corner of Broadway and Anderson in the Garth’s Addition neighborhood. She says she would like to see the neighborhood be rezoned by the city as a Historic Preservation Overlay District because then she might have a better shot at state tax credits to help her replace the house’s generic glass-pane windows with wooden ones that match the 1920s style and architecture of the house.

Local artist T.L. Pratt hated art exhibits. “Art shows never held any interest for me,” he said. His opinion changed, however, when he rediscovered his independence. After a devastating car accident in 1995 left Pratt blind and in a wheelchair, he was unsure if he would ever live on his own again.

While there may not be a reason to panic about a possible outbreak of flu in Columbia, school administrators have already started preparing for the worst.

Every child is at risk. At least that’s what Alan Marshall and Rolando Barry say.

Sitting on top of a bucking horse, James Earl Carter has only a suitcase-type handle called a bareback riggin to hang on to. His other hand can’t touch the horse, or he will be disqualified and his efforts are wasted. He squeezes the horse’s neck with the heels of his boots, hoping to keep on top for just 8 seconds.

Tracy Edwards talks on his cell phone in his white Suburban at Douglass Park after Monday night’s practice. He is calling hotels in Louisville, Ky., trying to find rooms for 10, 15- and 16-year-old, basketball players and four coaches. His team just finished scrimmaging neighborhood talent on the cracked courts before sunset.

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Edmonton Oilers beat three higher-seeded teams to reach the Stanley Cup finals. They weren’t going out that easy.

MU officials have announced that $8 million has been given to the university from the estate of MU alumna Margaret Waters Jordan and her husband Gerald Jordan.