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NCAA football installs changes
If the NCAA Football Rules Committee decided to make changes last year instead of this year, we might have a different defending national champion coming into the 2006 season.
Rams release eight players in first cuts
ST. LOUIS — When it’s time to deliver the bad news, Scott Linehan believes in a personal touch.
MU vollyball hoping for another hit
With the best season in Missouri volleyball history now behind them, coach Wayne Kreklow’s Tigers are hoping 2006 will be just as memorable.
Getting good seats requires extra effort
It’s dark. And it’s drizzling. And it’s 5:45 a.m. But as MU juniors Andy Butler and Drew Minert get in Butler’s 1997 Nissan Altima to set out on their mission, none of that matters. It’s football season.
So far, Pinkel not so serious
As it turns out, Gary Pinkel just might have something in common with former French Queen Marie Antoinette.
Coach is keeping things lighter with team, media alike.
ST. LOUIS — Usually, Albert Pujols is the St. Louis hitter opposing teams worry about most. Right now the Cardinals’ most dangerous player may be Gary Bennett, a journeyman catcher playing for his seventh team in six seasons.
In honor of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr.’s words were not only hanging in the humid Missouri air Monday night, but they were also chiseled on the granite pillars of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial at Battle Garden.
Jobless figures improve for state, city
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri experienced a double-digit drop in unemployment in July, according to a report issued by Missouri’s Labor Department.
Columbia has lowest jobless rate in metro areas
MU employed 23,608 people, as of Oct. 31, 2005. With so many jobs in the hands of a single employer, should Columbians be scared or reassured?
N.Y. gets a taste of True/False fest
True or False: Mid-Missouri recently took a bite out of the Big Apple?
Women's suffrage is honored at Stephens
Sarah Kegley said she loves everything about being a woman.
Expert says rain too late to help corn, soybeans
It wasn’t a drought-breaker, but it was welcome nonetheless.
Man dies in U.S. 63 accident
A Cole County circuit judge candidate and former Jefferson City Council member was struck by two vehicles and killed early Monday in southern Boone County, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
For religious groups, giving goes on
When a group of volunteers from Columbia’s First Presbyterian Church arrived in New Orleans two months after Hurricane Katrina, the Rev. Kathie Jackson was overwhelmed by the devastation.
Premium change pinches workers
It’s back to business for Charles Hargrove and Dick Malon, a former assistant city manager and director of Water and Light, respectively.
MOHELA sale could net MU $94 million
JEFFERSON CITY — MU would receive
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