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Bennett Clark says he didn’t expect to become one of the best short-distance swimmers in the country.

When things went wrong for Ohio this week on the road, coach Sylvia Crawley didn’t get angry. She started snowball fights with her players.

For a wrestler, working out with a plastic trash bag over your body or turning up the thermostat in the weight room to resemble a sauna doesn’t seem strange. Dehydrating yourself to lose some weight works.

The auction is over, the parts are assigned and seven amateur vocalists will shine in the spotlight at the Columbia Chorale’s “Messiah” sing-along this Sunday.

Missouri’s minimum wage will increase to $6.50 an hour on Jan. 1, just three days before Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is scheduled to introduce a bill in Congress that eventually could trump that wage with a higher federal figure.

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri River barge traffic that has been slowly dissipating over the past decade could disappear completely during the 2008 season.

Steven Tatlow uses the analogy of a house of cards when he talks about an ex-convict’s chances of success after prison.

JEFFERSON CITY — Inarguably, the biggest issue to face Missouri lawmakers when they begin their 2007 legislative session on Jan. 3 will be to restructure the state’s largest welfare program — Medicaid.

Three years ago, doctors told Patricia Jones she would never read or write again. She and her husband had been hit by a car while riding their motorcycle in San Diego, Calif.