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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.

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.

A 7-year-old Columbia boy said both his stepfather and his mother were to blame for scalding him under a hot shower as punishment for misbehavior.

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.

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.