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WASHINGTON — In a twist on the old Watergate question, the Republican Party is struggling to answer: What did GOP leaders know of a congressman’s salacious exchanges with underage male pages and when did they know it?

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Mark Foley, under FBI investigation for e-mail exchanges with teenage congressional pages, has checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for alcoholism treatment and accepts responsibility for his actions, his attorney said Monday.

A summer spike in unwanted animals has put the Central Missouri Humane Society on course to take in more animals than ever before, the shelter’s director said.

A Columbia strip club owner pleaded guilty Monday to failing to pay the Internal Revenue Service more than $177,000 in federal income taxes over four years.

A feature on the Boone County Sheriff’s Department Web site that was added Monday will let people see with a few mouse clicks whether they have a pending misdemeanor or traffic warrant.

You wouldn’t know the page has been turned on another summer by the way it felt outside Monday. A high of 94 degrees at Columbia Regional Airport, recorded at 2:54 p.m., made for the hottest Oct. 2 in more than 100 years.

Evelyn Peck, a retired nurse, isn’t sure whether Boone Hospital Center’s lease with BJC HealthCare needs to change.

A former MU football player was arrested early Monday on suspicion of second-degree domestic assault and felonious restraint after he bit his girlfriend in the face, Columbia police said.

Ten years ago, one county in England started a safe walk to school program. Last year,

The husband of a woman killed in an April car crash on Interstate 70 filed a lawsuit Friday against a trucking company and the driver of the truck that rear-ended his car, claiming the driver made no effort to avoid the crash.

The City Council will have to decide whether to give a six-year extension to Central Missouri Community Action that will allow it to complete the planned renovation of the old Heibel-March drugstore.

Marijo Dixon is not happy. Within the next year, the information technology analyst at MU’s Truman School of Public Affairs may have to punch a time clock to show how many hours she worked in a day. Every other MU employee who is paid by the hour may have to do the same.

In the world of animal control, there’s no getting around sex and violence.

The first portion of a proposed trail along the County House Branch will go ahead as planned after the City Council gave its approval Monday. The council, however, delayed decisions on the more difficult second phase of the trail, which encountered resistance and criticism from neighbors.

It’s been done for humans. It’s been done for rice. Soybean, prepare to have your genome mapped.

The last time Rock Bridge played Helias, the Bruins were almost able to shut down Helias forward Scott Miller for the entire game. Almost.

KANSAS CITY — The Kansas City Royals have been so inept for so long, things go bad even when they go right.

KANSAS CITY — Savoring one of the most convincing victories he has ever experienced as a player or coach, Herm Edwards decided to have a little fun at his postgame news conference.

The Hickman softball team defeated Eugene 4-0 on Monday behind a pitcher Taylor Cowan’s one-hitter and Laura Miller’s two RBIs.