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A former cardiologist who graduated from MU in the 1950s is giving back to the School of Medicine.

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 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.

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.”

CINCINNATI — All of those home runs flying out of the ballpark put Aaron Harang’s performance in perspective.

ST. LOUIS — Any win is exciting for the St. Louis Cardinals right now, no matter how it falls into their lap.

Sometimes pursuing one dream means putting another one on hold. That’s the story of MU track and field hepathlete Fiona Asigbee.

BOSTON — ESPN baseball analyst Peter Gammons was stricken with a brain aneurysm Tuesday morning and underwent surgery.

ST. LOUIS — Unlike his last start, there was no quit in C.C. Sabathia.

Columbia resident Parker Mills was only half an hour away from being initiated into the Elks group in his hometown of Clinton on Monday.

Karsten Ewald is president of the Columbia Art League. He is also a struggling ceramic artist, which is why he is pleased that the future Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts will include a large new gallery space for the art league.

Shards of rock litter the ground and are strewn across a crushed boardwalk shaded by towering trees at Rock Bridge Memorial State Park. The debris, located below the opening of the natural rock bridge for which the park is named, is the result of a slab that fell from the side of the geologic formation earlier this month.

Time is ticking away for those wanting to make the student loan consolidation deadline this Friday. Beginning Saturday, those who haven’t consolidated will see an increase of slightly less than 2 percentage points in the interest rate on the loans they are accumulating or paying off.

An office switch at the state Capitol for Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder and State Auditor Claire McCaskill has prompted some controversy.

Despite the fact that President Bush has the job approval of less than 40 percent of the American people, his appearance at a fundraiser this evening in St. Louis could help U.S. Sen. Jim Talent’s chances of repelling a challenge by State Auditor Claire McCaskill.

About seven months after an independent study found that the Missouri State Public Defender system is in crisis, a Senate interim committee has been created to examine the system and make recommendations to improve it.

Shubhra Gangopadhyay, an MU researcher, has been awarded a $4.79 million contract from the U.S. Army to use her expertise in nanotechnology in developing alternative fuel solutions for rockets.

Jay Leno had made light of community colleges before, but when he insinuated that those in the sex trade may be community college students, that was the last straw for Betty Young.

Barbara Harris grew up in New Orleans during the Civil Rights Movement. Her earliest memory of the movement is picking up her brother after he returned from one of the famous Freedom Rides. He was bloody, beaten, and had to be carried off the bus.

A Columbia man was charged Saturday in connection with a September 2005 fire that destroyed two personal watercraft, a trailer and a van.