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For sports fans in Columbia, if you’re yearning to see a good baseball team, or even just a 30-pound hunk of brass and pewter, you’ll need to drive a ways to find it.

Nine-year-old Hayden Johnson, clad in an oversized blue John Buck Kansas City Royals jersey, and his 11-year-old brother Riley waited anxiously, baseballs bearing old autographs in their hands. After going through the line three times, gathering autographs of catcher John Buck, pitcher Luke Hudson and former Royals pitcher Dennis Leonard, the brothers offered their prediction for the 2007 season.

A team is a unit. Each part, each player is only as strong as the whole.

Hickman kicks off its 12-team wrestling tournament tonight with redemption on its mind.

The Columbia College women’s basketball team knew they were going to see Missouri Baptist’s full-court press a lot.

The Rock Bridge boys basketball team continued their winning ways Thursday night, beating Smith-Cotton 77-30.

The Columbia College men’s basketball team added to its win streak Thursday night, pulling away in the second half to post a 87-75 victory against Missouri Baptist for its fourth straight victory overall and third consecutive in conference.

Update: The Missouri Senate confirmed Warren Erdman as UM curator Friday morning after Sen. Matt Bartle abandoned a nearly 17-hour filibuster.

The new Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force announced Wednesday it has received an $8,000 grant to help buy equipment to combat what the Boone County Sheriff’s Department has called an explosion of Internet crime.

SPRINGFIELD — Missouri’s electric utilities should be looking for new ways to prevent outages such as the widespread blackouts that continued Thursday after a weekend ice storm, a state regulator said.

The opening of a new Wal-Mart Supercenter today in Grindstone Plaza comes a year after the Columbia City Council expressed concern about upkeep of the building it replaces.

Mid-Missouri residents should still expect winter weather this weekend.

JEFFERSON CITY — The legal battle over Missouri’s method of funding public schools already has cost taxpayers more than $2.6 million — counting money spent both by school districts challenging the funding formula and the state defending it.

John Clark, a proponent of planned, conservative growth, will once again challenge four-term incumbent Mayor Darwin Hindman in April’s election, he said Thursday.

Tom Cruise’s interview in June 2005 with Matt Lauer of the “Today” show, in which the actor criticized Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants, was fodder for plenty of late-night comedy. But it also exposed the Church of Scientology’s hostility toward the practice of psychiatry, which Cruise, a Scientologist, labeled a pseudoscience.

The Columbia School Board showed support on Thursday for early childhood education programs under way in Boone County, with one board member going so far as to suggest someday building a center on district land.

The recent ice storms can be blamed for yet another problem: The regional blood supply is at a critical low, said Jim Williams, manager of communications for the American Red Cross of the Missouri-Illinois region.

On a cold night in December, the members of Karis Community Church sat in a circle inside the Boone County Commission Chambers discussing “Life as a House,” the movie they had just finished watching.

A winter storm watch for the western half of Missouri has been expanded to include Boone County and the remainder of the state to the east.