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The Missouri Department of Corrections established its first written procedure for lethal injections Friday but was unable to meet a federal judge’s Saturday deadline to find an anesthesiologist willing to perform lethal injections.

Files of stuffed animals stood at attention and stacks of clothes were folded neatly.

A Boone County Fire Protection District volunteer firefighter was charged with deviate sexual assault Saturday after a volunteer firefighter from another county reported that the Boone County firefighter fondled her while she was sleeping in a district fire station.

An analysis of a fatal traffic accident blamed on a faulty light in May has prompted a proposal from City Manager Bill Watkins to replace the city’s remaining incandescent traffic lights with light emitting diode, or LED, bulbs.

Christy Welliver hates waste.

A shoplifting attempt turned violent Friday night after a Columbia man backed up his 2001 Ford Taurus, striking a Columbia officer, police said.

Excited questions and pointed remarks echoed off of the walls of the Devil’s Icebox cave as Mary Jane Wheeler led a group of students, wearing flashlight helmets, from Fun City Youth Academy and the Boys and Girls Club through the chilly tunnels. A tour through the icebox was one of several activities the students participated in at Rock Bridge Memorial State Park on Friday.

Whether preventing student drug use or possibly building a new high school, Columbia Public School District board members agreed communication is the key.

The creator of the Tiger Spot mosaic in Lowry Mall said Friday he hates that the 30-foot piece of public art has become maligned and considered an eyesore on MU campus.

Most people wouldn’t have stopped for what looked like a puddle, but to Chris Newbold, a wildlife biologist with the Missouri Department of Conservation, it represented progress. Fellow conservationist Steve Bartley cut the engine on the pickup rumbling across a grassy 40-acre tract in western Callaway County to take a look.

Tom Smith and his cattle are doing their part to help the endangered prairie chicken.

With between 26- and 28-thousand athletes competing in just three weekends, the Show-Me State Games’ staff couldn’t operate without about 650 volunteers. People like Bill Clark offer their time, and sometimes expertise, to make the games the best in the U.S.

The idea of hitting a tiny white ball with a long, thin club appeals to many athletes across the world. For Travis Flett, golf’s slow pace wasn’t engaging enough to keep him hooked. Luckily for Flett, he found disc golf.

Putting played a big role in Dee Sanders’ victory Saturday at the 13th Annual Columbia Invitational Seniors Championship Golf Tournament. Sanders won in a playoff with Tim Rooney at A.L. Gustin golf course.

The handles feel like the end of a dog leash, cut and connected to fit around two fingers. The ball of Teflon stinks of lamp oil as it hangs an arm’s length away from your finger tips.

LOUDON, N.H. — Columbia native Carl Edwards easily held off a late challenge from Kevin Harvick on Saturday to win the NASCAR Busch Series race at New Hampshire International Speedway.

The little ones cleared out at noon, and with them, the decibels. Splashes of heat entered Hickman High School natatorium. The small waves of water from the start of the races could now be heard. Red Speedo, goggles, a smile and a handshake, Bill Cannon, 75, turned back to the pool and took his mark.