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Acrobats ready to perform
The St. Louis Arches, a group of acrobats between ages 6 and 16, will perform in Columbia tonight at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Flat Branch Park as part of the Twlight Festival. The troupe, which has existed for 17 years, is affiliated with the Circus Day Foundation, an organization that uses the circus to promote diversity. Jessica Hentoff, artistic and executive director of the organization, described it as, “a social circus organization that teaches the art of life through circus education.”
Home run count goes against K.C.
CINCINNATI — All of those home runs flying out of the ballpark put Aaron Harang’s performance in perspective.
Eckstein’s grounder enough to end slide
ST. LOUIS — Any win is exciting for the St. Louis Cardinals right now, no matter how it falls into their lap.
Up, up & Away
Five multicolored hot air balloons competed for space Wednesday on the grass-clumped field before a line of about 35 children and teens. They stood in groups and commented on how the balloons looked pushing against one another and lifting into the air, one by one.
Execution ruling problematic
The Missouri Department of Corrections may have trouble following new guidelines spelled out in an appellate judge’s opinion on lethal injection in Missouri, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center said Wednesday.
Principals to get hand-held computers
Using a combination of hand-held computers known as personal digital assistants and wireless Internet, administrators in the Columbia Public School District will be better prepared to manage students and work to improve the teaching at their schools.
Driver, 16 children injured in bus accident
A bus driver and 16 children on a field trip to Rock Bridge Memorial State Park were injured Wednesday afternoon when their bus went off the road and into a ditch.
Forum to evaluate trailers
Thomas Jamieson-Lucy, decked out in the summer uniform of a baseball hat, T-shirt and shorts, talked about trailer classrooms with the same easygoing attitude that seemed to rule his summer afternoon.
MU grad donates to School of Medicine
A former cardiologist who graduated from MU in the 1950s is giving back to the School of Medicine.
Blunt backs booster seats for older children
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Grace Keenan might have to stay in a booster seat until she is 8 years old under a bill Gov. Matt Blunt promoted Wednesday. But the 5-year-old and her twin sister, Sarah, don’t mind.
Beth Fisher takes over as new executive director of MOBIUS
Beth Fisher is the new executive director of the Missouri Bibliographic Information User System, or MOBIUS, a collection of the academic libraries of 68 colleges and universities in Missouri.
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