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With in-state competition from NCAA Division I schools Missouri State, Saint Louis, UMKC, not to mention smaller NCAA schools such as UMSL and Rolla, it can be difficult for the Columbia College women’s basketball team to get top-notch talent.

On Nov. 20, Tony Temple stood in the corner of the large meeting room on the first floor of the Mizzou Athletics Training Complex, away from the lobby where the majority of media members were grilling the Tigers about losing four of their past five games.

Morgan Hickman has two relationships. They demand attention, cause stress and often frustrate her. They are finite math and economics, two classes that gave Hickman so much trouble that she sought help from MU’s Learning Center.

A four-year study of the nation’s 1,200 schools of education calls teacher colleges “the Dodge City of the education world,” saying they are as chaotic as the fabled Old West town.

Today at Ridgeway Elementary School, about 230 children will pursue a single vision: celebrating the “art of the book.” But in typical Ridgeway fashion, they are doing it as individuals.

He looks like an average college student: shoulder-length brown hair, glasses, easy smile. Maybe a little taller than most, somewhere between 6-foot-3 and 6-foot-4.

After turning off the lights and kissing his kids good night, Ken Albright has one more chore on his list: plugging in his car.

It’s the “little jazz series that could,” as dubbed by Jon Poses, executive director of the “We Always Swing Jazz Series.” And it will have achieved a real coup when Paquito D’Rivera, a 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, comes to Columbia on Thursday to lead a workshop and perform at the Missouri Theatre.

About five months ago, Cara Walker, 17, was lying in a hospital bed recovering from a spinal injury she received when she lost control of her car, rolled the vehicle and was thrown halfway through the side window.