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Kevin Harvick held off Richard Childress Racing teammate Clint Bowyer by .271 seconds Saturday to win the Goody’s 250 NASCAR Busch race at Martinsville Speedway in the first series race at the track since 1994.

AUXVASSE — In the last leg of the Show-Me State Games’ cycling race Saturday, two female racers, one wearing electric yellow and the other in black, rode side by side, approaching the finish line where volunteers armed with stop-watches and clipboards waited anxiously. Suddenly, 59-year-old Sandi Wulff pulled ahead with a burst of speed and sprinted toward a first-place finish. The crowd erupted in applause.

It was a love story of miniature proportions. Ashlie Cumpton and her kindergarten hubby bragged they were boyfriend and girlfriend. They even kissed to prove it to the other kids on the playground. Six years later, the couple had their first date. In another year and a half, it got serious.

A California man was arrested on numerous charges Friday after a car chase, which began in the 2000 block of Bernadette Drive.

Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., argues that more border security is the key to stopping illegal immigrants, but State Auditor Claire McCaskill, his Democratic opponent in the November election, says the better strategy is to keep immigrants from getting jobs.

A truck driver pleaded not guilty Friday to two counts of second-degree involuntary manslaughter for his involvement in an April 28 crash that killed two people on Interstate 70 near the Lake of the Woods Exit.

Pure accident. That’s the way Charles Seavey explains how he decided to drive from Columbia to New Orleans to deliver books.

Commerce Bank officials announced Friday the completion of their purchase of Boone National Savings and Loan Association.

University Terrace residents now know the fight for their homes is over.

Two Missouri men were ordered to pay a total of $20,000 in civil damages for storing 75 containers of hazardous medical waste at a Columbia home.

MU professor of biochemistry Frank Schmidt thought the hard part was over after he invented the construction of a bacterial strain used to search for antibiotics.

Teenagers have the reputation of being impossible to understand. One of the first men to try was G. Stanley Hall, whose work in the mid-1800s earned him the reputation as the founder of child psychiatry. His mission grew out of a general panic about what fellow worrier and writer, Frank O. Beck, described as “the tyranny of the special cult of adolescence.”

The apron-clad men jab ice picks into the end of a country-cured ham, one after the other. They bring the picks to their noses.

Dear Reader:

Today you will read a story that may leave you shocked. If you are the parent of a teenager, as I am, you will at least be more worried today than you were yesterday.

Two road projects received a $7.5 million shot in the arm Thursday as part of a federal spending bill set to take effect in October.