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When Missouri lost to Kansas State on Jan. 13, Marshall Brown’s missed dunk probably was the single ugliest moment for the Tigers. Brown’s miss was a physical mistake, an unlucky moment, and a vivid memory from the Tigers third consecutive conference loss.

America’s most underrated niche sport may be coming to a city near you.

That’s right, Kansas City may soon be the permanent home of one of the NHL’s most exciting, resurgent franchises.

Rock Bridge senior Erik Darkow can’t remember the first time he picked up a basketball.

Missouri swimmer Shannon Hogan has been racing and winning in competitive swimming for 14 years, but as the end of her senior year looms, Hogan has begun to look back on swimming before she abandons the sport.

The cold temperatures and the cost of fuel make you start thinking of ways to reduce your energy costs. One of the ways is to add some features to your landscape to reduce the energy it takes to heat and cool your home. Some estimate that you can reduce your energy costs by 10 percent to 25 percent through landscaping. Some of the modifications may not cost very much.

In the summer of 1997, a 15-year-old Columbia girl reported that she had been raped in her own bedroom. There were no suspects, but a DNA sample was taken at the scene and entered into a national DNA database.

JEFFERSON CITY — John Hartman has been paying into Social Security since 1939, not long after the program’s inception in 1935. Now that he’s receiving the retirement benefit, he wants to stop paying state income tax on it.

Since 1955, high school students have been given an opportunity to get ahead on college credits with the Advanced Placement test program. The cost, however, has made it increasingly difficult for some Missouri students to take advantage of it, but a new proposal from Gov. Matt Blunt aims to remedy the situation.

JEFFERSON CITY — A Tuesday morning school bus crash involving 26 students in the St. Louis area prompted two representatives to renew their call for requiring new school buses to have seat belts.

The University of Missouri System Board of Curators gave measured support Tuesday for a bill in the Missouri legislature that would modify several provisions in the state’s higher education system.

Ten-year-old Abir Aramin was on her way to buy candy January 19 when she was killed near her school in Jerusalem. She was the daughter of Bassam Aramin, a founder of Combatants for Peace, an Israeli-Palestinian organization committed to ending violence and establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

JEFFERSON CITY — A bill that would create a “department of computer geeks” within the Missouri state government has been reintroduced.

A report released late Monday on the state’s struggling public defender system calls for reforms that include raising the base salaries of public defenders, reducing their case loads and offering a student loan forgiveness program.

Marshall Brown’s aggressiveness has been a key to his high-point production during the Big 12 Conference men’s basketball season. But that aggressiveness has also led to consistent first-half foul trouble for Missouri’s starting forward.

The death of a thoroughbred racehorse is never less than heartbreaking. They’re magnificent athletes, bred to race, with muscular torsos perched on sinewy legs.

Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants completed a $15.8 million, one-year contract Monday night after the slugger spent hours at the ballpark being examined by team doctors.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Brandon Rush scored 20 points, Julian Wright added 17, and sixth-ranked Kansas used a 27-0 run in the first half to fuel a 76-56 blowout of Nebraska on Monday night.

JEFFERSON CITY — A report and a bill focusing on the monetary and implicit costs of college education could punish universities for raising their tuition too high.

After outgrowing her home-based center, Diane Patrick began looking for a location to build a new center and eventually found two available lots on McBaine Avenue in the First Ward. Zoning regulations and finding an architect to design the facility were challenges.