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Max Lewis is so backed up with work as a lawyer, he’s had to stop accepting new clients. But Lewis lives on less than $700 per month and relies on food stamps to buy groceries, living in a small studio apartment in Paquin Tower.

Thoughts of boating, camping and fishing offered an escape from icy mid-Missouri at Hearnes Center this weekend during the 21st annual All Sports Show.

It was time for one of those Rocky-inspired comebacks, according to the Missouri women’s basketball coaching staff Saturday in the game against Nebraska.

Nate Rucker remembers sitting on the bus with his University of Dubuque track and field teammates waiting for their coach to give them the green light.

The case sits inconspicuously in the back corner of the foyer of Larry Young’s Columbia home. Young comments on how one of the gold medals needs to be shined. The National Track and Field Hall of Fame says there should be 30 of them, but Young can only find 25, each denoting a national title that he captured.

Gayle Johnson was never one to mock racewalkers. Actually, she had always found a sort of intrigue in the sport.

When Patrick Stroupe showed up at the Central Methodist University track in Fayette as a freshman in 2003, he saw then-junior Beth Lewis walking around the track and started laughing.

The Columbia College women’s basketball team improved to 16-3 Saturday night. It defeated the University of Illinois-Springfield Prairie Stars 65-53.

The Stephens College women’s basketball team hosted the Stephens College Classic on Friday and Saturday at Silverthorne Arena in Columbia. The Stars started off the Stephens Classic by outscoring Johnson & Wales (Colo.) 54-16 in the first half of Friday night’s game, on the way to an 89-39 victory.

Kalen Grimes never experienced the kind of success he achieved the first few weeks of this season.

Sharon Bailey loves — really loves — penguins. Since 2002, Bailey has brought that interest and a personal collection of just fewer than 400 penguin collectible items into her kindergarten classroom at Columbia Independent School; she sees the black-and-white birds as an opportunity to teach about nature and geography.

Missouri Track and Field athletes ran over the competition to help secure Team Big 12 a 223-114 victory over Team Mountain West at the Conference Challenge held in Lincoln, Neb. The Tigers had many outstanding performances, including four first-place finishers, and a record-breaking effort in the triple jump.

When Oprah Winfrey asked kidnapping victim Shawn Horn­beck on national television Thursday why he didn’t call home or try to escape from the Kirkwood apartment where he was held for four years, his answer was simple: He was terrified.

With the estimated $1 billion loss to the California citrus industry, consumers across the country can anticipate paying double or even triple the price for the oranges, lemons and other citrus fruits they buy.

Serving on the Columbia City Council is “the ultimate city-volunteer job,” according to City Manager Bill Watkins. It’s also one that requires a lot of learning as you go.