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Don’t tell the Missouri Tigers their win over Arkansas was a big deal.

When Ouida Savant ran into the Hollins family at the Dallas airport, they decided to fly to Kansas City instead of St. Louis in an effort to avoid the snowstorm.

Standing toe to toe, Missouri wrestlers Josh Wagner and Maxwell Askren prepared to compete for pride and a week’s worth of bragging rights in the middle of their living room.

Beat Eastern Illinois in the first game of the State Farm Tiger Classic. Check.

ROSEMONT, Ill. — No carryover for Kansas. One week after beating defending national champion Florida, the Jayhawks stumbled against DePaul, a team looking for an identity of its own.

Skaters don’t move to the rhythm of the latest hits Tuesday nights at Empire Roller Rink. The disco balls don’t spin.

Kim and Julie Heinicka sat at a quilt shop outside Kansas City on Friday afternoon, waiting for their daughter. Jodie Heinicka was supposed to leave Columbia in the morning, but the snow slowed her down.

It took the Missouri volleyball team nearly 48 hours to get to California. But a nine-hour wait in the airport, sitting and watching as flight after flight was canceled, and two nights in a hotel in St. Louis are all well worth it now.

During the regular season, the Columbia College volleyball team was not challenged by the majority of its opponents and was able to win without playing at a high level.

All the conjecture can be put to rest now.

Ondre and Tyler Hayes dug into the knee-deep snow drifts covering the walkway outside St. Paul AME Church on the corner of Fifth Street and Park Avenue on Saturday afternoon.

While hotel rooms in some parts of the state rapidly filled with travelers stranded by last week’s storms, some Columbia hotels lost business as a result of the snow.

Columbia’s biggest snowstorm in years kept holiday shoppers away from some retailers and restaurants throughout Columbia on Friday, but some that chose to stay open downtown had an above average day of sales.

A pickup truck slid under a semitrailer on Interstate 70 near the Lake of the Woods exit in Columbia on Saturday morning, leaving one man critically injured and traffic backed up to the Callaway County line.

You can stay home if you were planning to attend the Holiday House Tour today. The annual event is postponed until next weekend.

As many Columbians enjoyed a day off Friday, the city’s first responders dug out their cars, waited for rides or slept at work.

Tim Delgman’s 12-ton snow plow passed abandoned cars as it bumped down a slippery Stadium Boulevard late Friday afternoon at 5 miles per hour, tripping on patches of ice and tightly packed snow. Above the roar of the truck’s engine, the CB radio squawked and crackled. Country music played in the background.

In a small, makeshift office lined with brown filing cabinets, stacks of business papers and the occasional cobweb, W.B. Smith holds eight black-and-white windows into his past.