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There’s no reason to try to describe it any other way.

Missouri’s football team did more than beat Kansas State.

Sociology professor Jackie Litt has noticed that female faculty members are in short supply in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at MU. To find out why, Litt will lead a group of researchers awarded a $500,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to explore the status of women in the so-called “STEM” academic departments.

For the past five years, fewer than one in five high school students in Missouri, on average, have scored “proficient” or higher on the math portion of the Missouri Assessment Program test. Missouri’s mediocrity is not atypical of the United States, which as a whole lags the rest of the developed world in terms of students’ math ability.

One of the people selected to co-chair Columbia’s Vision Committee said the key to success is keeping an open mind. The other said the key is outreach.

JEFFERSON CITY — Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, Iraq and Iraq.

There’s consensus on ethanol among the candidates for state representative seats in two rural Missouri districts: It’s good for farmers, good for the country and good for the economy, they say, but there’s not much more the state can do — at least for now — to encourage its use.

Situated just steps away from the MU campus, the Tiger Sinclair gas station has an advantage when it comes to tobacco sales.

Growing up as a Jewish-American, Anna Baltzer didn’t really understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Deer: Hunters love to shoot them, and drivers hate to crash into them. Satisfying hunters and protecting motorists is the job of Lonnie Hansen, deer biology specialist for the Missouri Department of Conservation.

For the past several weeks, a tremendous amount of dirt work and demolition has been taking place at the southeast corner of Providence Road and Interstate 70, the former site of the Perry Legend Collision Repair Center. Heavy equipment operators have been excavating the site and doing other site preparation while the repair center is being razed.

BOONVILLE — Situated on a cliff above a bend in the Missouri River, it’s one of the highest pieces of land in Boonville.