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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.

Missouri players said Colorado didn’t respect the Tigers’ defense.

Minutes into the second half, and down by three goals, Missouri goalkeeper Mallory Forst awaited the penalty kick of Baylor forward Missy McConnell. The penalty kick was the first that Forst has faced this season and could have decided the shape that the soccer game would take in its remaining minutes.

The Hickman soccer team lost only one of its first 10 games, but the second loss of the season Wednesday might not have been a positive turn for the Kewpies.

Rock Bridge senior Allison Coffelt tapped in on the ninth green at Lake of the Woods Golf Course on Thursday and walked towards the clubhouse. Instead of talking to her coach or asking her teammates how they did, she stopped to talk with her father, Terry. In a sport where crowd participation usually isn’t a factor, Rock Bridge parents are making sure the team knows it has loyal supporters.

For one of Hickman’s top cross country runners, senior Josh Mantooth, learning to run was as natural as learning to walk.

An MU graduate is helping international students succeed in school and preparing them for life beyond campus.

In August, Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill reported that the cost of attending college in Missouri has outpaced the rate of inflation by about 8 percent since 2000.

Like every school and department on campus, the MU Department of Economics has had to compensate for decreasing financial support from the state. Recently, the department found a way to increase its $30,000 annual budget by more than 40 percent — by requiring students to buy a textbook written by department faculty.

When Connie and Carl McClellan of Columbia arrived at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Saturday, they didn’t know quite what to expect. Their son, Lance Cpl. John McClellan, 20, had survived a gunshot to the head just four days earlier while serving with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, Echo Company in Haditha, Iraq.

J.B. Garrett worked as a conductor and brakeman for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad for 33 years, retiring in 1975. He said Boonville wouldn’t be the same without the Boonville Lift Bridge spanning the Missouri River.

Farmers can check current soil temperatures during planting season. The weather service can collect additional data during severe weather. Knowing wind speed and direction can help foresters plan prescribed burns.

For two years, the Boonville Lift Bridge has been at the center of a contentious ownership battle pitting politicians against politicians and a big money company against the interests of a small town. The fight over the bridge, referred to as the Katy Bridge by citizens who want to renovate it for pedestrian use as part of Katy Trail State Park, is still working its way through Missouri’s courts.