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New city offices open for business

City employees will have a little more breathing room thanks to a renovation completed this week on the Howard Municipal Building.

Mayor picks 18 for affordable housing panel

Eighteen people have been selected by Mayor Darwin Hindman to serve on a committee that will develop an affordable housing policy for the city and identify ways to encourage it in Columbia.

Condition of MU professor involved in eight-vehicle crash improves

The Columbia woman was among those injured Thursday evening in an eight-vehicle accident on Interstate 70 that killed four Kansas City residents.

Taguchi delivers in 11th

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals put some more distance between themselves and their top rival in the NL Central, the Houston Astros.

Braves’ Moore to take charge as Royals’ GM

KANSAS CITY — Had he been willing to wait, Dayton Moore might one day have headed one of the most admired organizations in baseball.

Drug test investigation exonerates Armstrong

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Lance Armstrong called it a “witch hunt” from the beginning, saying a French newspaper used dubious evidence to accuse him of doping, even charging that lab officials mishandled his samples and broke the rules.

Professor on U.S. math panel

MU’s David Geary could play a decisive role in any changes to be made to mathematics education in the U.S.

Volunteers receive after life of giving

Bob Pugh walked to the microphone at a crowded Sophia’s restaurant Tuesday night after his son Doug had joked with the audience about his father always being gone at “important” meetings when he was a child.

Last school day takes new class to MU campus

The bus door swings open as 48 fourth-graders come tramping down the aisle, holding onto guide-rails and bumping into each other.

Ahead of the class

Wendy Batson has her head in the humanities. Swathi Bhaskaran has hers in engineering. Together, they are Hickman High School’s top two students academically in the class of 2006.

Summer cheers

School’s out at last for the 17,000 or so students in the Columbia Public School District. At Parkade Elementary School on Wednesday, students competed against their teachers in the annual volleyball game.

Bee spells t-r-o-u-b-l-e for contestant

Viticetum: v-i-t-i-c-e-t-u-m. The correct spelling of the word — a growth or plantation of vines, especially grapevines — was not enough for Sidhant Misra to advance to round three of the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee held in Washington.

County takes road to improvements

County Public Works crews and contractors will be busy this summer after the Boone County Commission on Tuesday approved significant improvements to more than two dozen roads. The projects collectively will cost about $1.9 million.

Milk and cheese flooding market

Two years ago Missouri dairy farmers were experiencing cream-of-the-crop milk prices. The profitable conditions were an incentive for dairy farmers to invest in more cows and increase production.

Defense says McKinney didn’t discipline his son

FULTON – Otis McKinney was working so hard at two jobs to support his family that he was rarely involved in disciplining his 7-year-old stepson and 3-year-old daughter, his defense attorney said.

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