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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Twenty-two disparate agencies and 180,000 employees, including FEMA and the Secret Service, were merged under one roof in March 2003. The department oversees security operations at ports, on airlines and at U.S. borders.

In response to calls from concerned residents, the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri is considering challenging the legality of Field Elementary School’s decision to implement single-sex classrooms.

Superintendent Phyllis Chase will present a report on accountability for student success when she goes before the Columbia School Board on Monday evening.

Armed with notebooks and questions, 10 Missourian reporters fanned out across Boone County over the past couple of weeks to learn what really matters to voters as the November general election approaches.

Famous-Barr, the department store at 201 N. Stadium Blvd., officially changed its name Saturday to Macy’s, along with more than 300 other stores across the Midwest.

The brand-new MU BBQ Team cooked up the winning recipe for beef brisket at Bass Pro Shops’ Hooked on BBQ Contest and Missouri State Championship on Saturday, captain Greg Chase said, besting 27 teams from mid-Missouri and Kansas.

Columbia police were searching for a man wanted in connection with a sexual assault of a 24-year-old Columbia woman Friday morning.

Central city residents who support a grass-roots group’s controversial plan to build a grocery store at the corner of Garth Avenue and Sexton Road say the project would make shopping more convenient and help move the central city forward.

A Columbia man was injured and charged with driving while intoxicated after he flipped his car upside down on Route K Saturday afternoon, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.

The Columbia Peace Coalition will hold a candlelight vigil and commemoration from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at Courthouse Square in honor of those who died on Sept. 11, 2001.

A Columbia man was arrested on suspicion of third-degree assault in connection with the beating of a homeless man Friday afternoon.

CHESTERFIELD — Gov. Matt Blunt’s plan to use student loan profits for a college building boom was put on hold Friday after a warning from Attorney General Jay Nixon’s office that anyone voting for the plan could be sued.

Kandi Grossman is a storyteller, expressing herself through words and movement. She uses stories to entertain and instruct her daughters. She draws on them to explain theories to her students at Columbia College. She incorporates elements of them to convey moves when she teaches belly dance.

Parking lots surrounding Memorial Stadium fill with cars and trucks sporting striped tiger tails hanging from their bumpers nearly three to four hours before kickoff on MU football Saturdays. Fans wearing black-and-gold apparel are eager to get an early start unloading coolers, firing up grills and setting up tables of food.

With the pastor in blue jeans, preaching a sermon riddled with jokes to a congregation gathered in a room normally filled with ranchers, Columbia’s CrossWAY Church is clearly trying to offer an alternative to the traditional church service.

Dropping back to pass, Mississippi quarterback Brent Schaeffer looked for an open receiver. The pocket was rapidly collapsing.

Football fans in Columbia will have to wait two more weeks to see firsthand what people in St. Louis and Springdale, Ark., already know: Rock Bridge is in midseason form.

issouri fell to No. 4 Santa Clara 3-1 on Friday at the Texas Invitational in Austin, Texas.