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Walking into the hall of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 280, it’s hard not to notice the traces of smoking. A discarded pack of Kools and several cigarette butts litter the doorway. A not-so-healthy burst of smoky air greets visitors as soon as they enter.

City parks officials hoping money from the Missouri Department of Conservation would give them a jump-start on opening Philips Lake have learned this year’s budget request has been denied. But they still hope to open the lake to public fishing this summer.

JEFFERSON CITY — “Read these directions carefully. Failure to precisely comply could thwart the will of hundreds of thousands of Missourians and waste millions of dollars.”

Scott Thuong isn’t old enough to get a driver’s license, but he’ll attend college next fall.

Last week, Michael Nolte stood before family members, friends and former caretakers at University Hospital and recalled his time at the hospital three years ago — when 40 percent of his body was covered with third-degree burns.

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A new and thinner asphalt overlay planned for Providence Road and Range Line Street is designed to give drivers a drier road surface and make the roads more pedestrian- and bicyclist-friendly.

It took eight extra holes for Travis Mitchell to be named champion of the Phil Cotton Invitational on Sunday.

Missouri pitchers had no lack of energy on Sunday.

Nine dogs, drenched in water, jumped out of the pond on their trainer’s command and wiggled frantically, spraying the onlookers with water. The well-trained hunting dogs had been in and out of the pond all day, demonstrating their ability to fetch and retrieve fake ducks. A crowd of children and their parents watched in awe as the trainers stood ashore, using hand signals and whistles to direct the dogs to the ducks. Almost instinctively, the dogs gripped them and swam to shore.

The Fire and the Blizzards met in the title game for in the boys’ 13-14 bracket on Sunday in the last day of Soccerfest at MU’s Stankowski Field.

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 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.

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.