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There are many reasons why tonight’s match is the biggest of the year for Missouri’s volleyball team.

Welcome to mid-Missouri, where Mother Nature suffers from an acute case of schizophrenia. It seemed she couldn’t decide whether or not to rain on Bethel Park, spitting sprinkles on the smooth green concrete of the park’s eight tennis courts several times.

NEW YORK — The New York Mets sailed through the season, while the St. Louis Cardinals squeaked into the playoffs.

MU Chancellor Brady Deaton has called a halt to a plan to distribute free condoms in MU residence halls.

A bad bookkeeper and poor record-keeping are being blamed for the six-month delay in the release of the Boone County Fire Protection District’s yearly financial audit.

COLUMBIA — For more than a century, MU students could count on the Savitar yearbook as a keepsake to reflect on campus life long after adulthood’s unceremonious arrival.

As Sara Cross jogged along the MKT Trail on a recent afternoon, gravel and dried leaves crunched beneath her feet. The sound of each step was as familiar to her as it is to the other walkers and runners she passed along the trail. But it’s a sound that might soon fade from Columbia’s trail system.

The residents of Candlelight Lodge will soon have a new landlord, but who it will be and how the change of hands will affect the facility is anyone’s guess.

Although a Columbia ban on smoking in public places won the approval of the Columbia City Council on a 4-3 vote early Tuesday morning, it came out of the meeting a bit different than it arrived.

JEFFERSON CITY — The foreign policy rift between Missouri’s Senate candidates widened Tuesday, as Republican Sen. Jim Talent and Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill differed in their approach to North Korea after its first declared nuclear test.

WASHINGTON — When President Bush tried last year to overhaul the nation’s Social Security system by introducing private investment accounts for younger workers, Congress balked at the idea and Democrats attacked the plan as a veiled effort to cut future benefits.

Boys and Girls Town of Missouri Central Missouri — Columbia Campus announced a capital campaign Tuesday to begin raising money for the second phase of renovation to its Columbia campus on South Bearfield Road.