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In the old days, video games were never really been a hobby, for the most part, of the physically fit. Mention video games, and the image of a pasty nerd decked out in glasses usually came to mind.

If toward the end of the week of practice, Missouri coaches were emphasizing intensity, the practice Saturday at Kadlec Athletic Fields was focused on physicality.

HOUSTON — Mario Williams’ NFL career got off to a quiet start.

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Rams first-year coach Scott Linehan said he is pleased so far with top draft pick Tye Hill, though he said Hill is making normal rookie mistakes.

State Rep. Judy Baker remembers with vivid clarity when she realized that politics would be part of her future: It was in the fourth grade in Silver Springs, Md.

A Read-A-Thon with pajama-clad students, chili suppers and rainforest T-shirt sales helped raise more than $15,000 in 2005 for Cedar Ridge Elementary School’s playground equipment that was destroyed in a recent fire.

In the heat of an August afternoon, a diverse group of Columbians took to the streets calling for resolution of a violent conflict half a world away.

Thin pieces of untouched cheese are sweating grease on the buffet table and there is a lone dancer doing the “YMCA.” The Singles Mixer has begun.

It was the first Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce meeting of 1988, and Marilyn Ruestman was the first chairwoman in the history of the organization. As she walked into the meeting, she thought she would look closer to the traditional appearance of the position if she pulled her hair in a tight bun and dressed in a pinstripe suit.

The Rev. Thomas Saucier, O.P., does not simply stand at the altar when delivering his Sunday homily at Columbia’s St. Thomas More Newman Center. Instead, he walks up and down the chapel’s aisles, addresses his parishioners and makes them laugh while teaching a lesson on God’s generosity.

Seeing the same paintings day after day for years could get boring, but for Christine Montgomery, repetition is a way to catalog the hundreds of art pieces housed in the State Historical Society of Missouri.

When Rock Bridge High School holds its next blood drive, the lines promise to be longer.