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Nearly one year after the death of reserve linebacker Aaron O’Neal, an MU football player whose death some medical experts partially attributed to a common blood disorder, college sports trainers and team doctors are again considering whether to require preseason tests of all athletes for sickle cell trait.

It’s the little changes that make big differences in the cost of utility bills -- even the color of a front door.

Fifty years after they first entered the pulpit, more and more women are wearing pastoral robes in today’s Methodist churches, especially in Missouri.

A 43rd Judicial Circuit judge is expected to decide within a week whether to order the Missouri Probation and Parole Board to release two women who are serving life sentences for the murder of their husbands in domestic abuse cases. Both women were granted clemency by former Gov. Bob Holden.

During harsh winters, the frozen Lake Woodrail provides ice skating ground for Woodrail residents. In March, the ice melts, and preparations for summer activities on the lake begin.

A former city employee is seeking $100,000 in punitive damages from his former supervisor and the city of Columbia for “emotional pain” he said was caused by intolerable working conditions at the McBaine Water Treatment Plant.

Columbia Independent School has drafted a new athletic director this offseason.

MU’s chief information officer was appointed by University of Missouri System President Elson Floyd as the UM vice president of information technology, combining the two positions to reduce costs.

A Columbia woman pleaded not guilty Monday to charges stemming from the suffocation of her six-month-old daughter last December.

In 1998, a study by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research found that most clergy believe that women are more caring, more sensitive and more nurturing in their pastorship roles than men.

A 2005 graduate of MU was killed Friday when a car backed over him at his home in Sarasota, Fla.

ST. LOUIS — The Cleveland Indians’ hottest pitcher helped them finally get off on the right foot.

BERLIN — Their ranks include a tax inspector, a tire salesman, even an airline pilot. Then they step on the soccer field and become referees.

Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. will continue as the exclusive alcohol sponsor for the Super Bowl through 2012, and the world’s largest brewer is adding other sports to its long list of sponsorships.

CLINTON, Mo. (AP) - A man who was missing since a three-story building partially collapsed in this west-central Missouri community Monday night was killed, officials confirmed Tuesday.

The Rev. Edwin Cole strolls through the church’s aisles greeting parishioners as he has done for the last 10 years.

Columbia Public Schools students might be happy to know that Superintendent Phyllis Chase gets a report card, too. Actually, she gets two report cards each year — one in February and another in June.

A 183-home subdivision is being hailed as “innovative” and “creative” by members of the City Council and the Planning and Zoning Commission.

JEFFERSON CITY — The negative TV ads have yet to begin, most of the yard signs have yet to go up, and candidates have yet to start knocking on doors.