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MU has begun a campaign to raise more money from private donors to cover the cost of relocating and replacing Tiger Spot, a 30-foot mosaic installed five years ago at Lowry Mall that is damaged and has required constant repairs, MU spokeswoman Mary Jo Banken said Thursday. The mosaic has already cost more than $290,000, MU records show.

It’s often said that people are sexual beings from the moment they are born to the moment they die. That’s an unsettling thought for Demetria Brown, 28, whose 10-month-old son Jamarrion is still in diapers, and whose eldest Javante, 11, is coming home with love letters. Life has changed for this young mother in the last decade.

Angell is an all-white bottle calf. Justin Chrisman, at only 9 years old, is her primary caretaker in charge of providing the basic necessities the mother cow normally gives. Justin won first place in the Junior Bucket Calf Show at the Boone County Fair on Thursday afternoon.

Against the snip-snips of garden shears and the grating scrapes of handsaws, the bush honeysuckle and autumn olive plants at Rock Bridge Memorial State Park didn’t stand a chance Thursday morning.

The two Republican candidates running for Division XI Associate Circuit Judge have seen the courtroom from different perspectives. Dale Roberts, a judge, and Richard Hicks, an assistant prosecutor, are facing each other in the Aug. 8 primary for their party’s slot on the November ballot.

Tuesday was Karisha Trentham’s 20th birthday, a day she spent enjoying her newfound fame while being ferried around the Boone County Fairgrounds in a motorized cart.

The city continued its legal battle this week to get access to a small tract of land in southeast Columbia so it can finish building a $3.5 million power line, the absence of which is costing the city millions of dollars. The property is slated to house the 25th and final pole for the massive 161-kilovolt power line. Developer Raul Walters owns the six-acre tract along Ponderosa Street near Grindstone Parkway. He argued that the city is asking for access to too much land.

After long periods of instability in the growth of Boone County tax revenue, some recent consistency is giving county planners a better grasp of what the near future holds.

When 6-year-old Chemistry Richardson helps her grandmother make clothes this summer while her mother studies for her general education diploma, she’ll do it in relative comfort.

After nearly three months of investigation by Illinois officials, a Columbia man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of abducting and sexually abusing a 15-year-old Illinois girl in May.

CHICAGO — Todd Walker and Michael Barrett hit back-to-back home runs, the fourth time Chicago did it this week, and the Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals for the seventh time in 10 games this season with a 5-4 victory Thursday night.

Fourteen years ago, bicyclists in San Francisco formed a riding group to make a statement about traffic laws and riding conditions on their city’s roads.

ST. LOUIS — Scott Linehan’s first day in charge of a training camp left the new St. Louis Rams coach glad there’s plenty of time to work out the bugs.