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An anxious voice trickles through the two-way radio mounted on the wall next to an organized toolbox.

Used vs. unused violins (w/ audio)

Sarah French picked out her evening dress and song for Monday’s Miss America talent competition with help from her grandfather. But just weeks before the pageant, he died.

JEFFERSON CITY — With one sweeping motion, the Missouri Department of Transportation is seeking to rectify a statewide safety concern.

Costs related to the January ice storms have piled up and Boone County is looking to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance.

JEFFERSON CITY — Farmers in 29 counties are eligible for loans to make up for agriculture losses in recent ice storms, Gov. Matt Blunt said Friday.

Two large windows at a car dealership in central Columbia were shot out Friday afternoon, and employees who were inside the building at the time were left cold but unhurt.

Some of the busiest intersections in Columbia are in line for makeovers as part of an emerging trail network designed to get more people out of their cars and onto their feet.

Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” has been in production around the world for 55 years, and now it’s playing in Columbia, thanks to the Columbia Entertainment Company.

Under a new parental guidance policy that went into effect Friday at Columbia Mall, youths younger than 17 must be accompanied by a parent or adult who is at least 21 years old from 4 p.m. until the mall closes at 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. The mall was crowded on the first day that the policy was in effect, but not with unsupervised teenagers.

A sign ordinance proposal scheduled for a City Council vote Monday night has many downtown business owners scratching their heads. Some don’t see why a new ordinance is necessary. Others are confused about the legal language of the proposal. Still, more wonder why they should even worry about the proposal.

John Glascock, Columbia’s director of public works, has approved a bid from Frank Twehous Excavating Company in Jefferson City to begin construction on what will potentially become the first bioreactor in Missouri. The bid now goes to the city’s purchasing division, which will decide whether to finalize the deal to bring the latest in landfill technology and renewable energy to mid-Missouri.

FULTON — In Lee Nigh’s home, an amber-gold violin rests beside a study window, as if it were looking out onto the rainy afternoon.

Paul Fox was a lot of things growing up, but religious was not one of them.

With his mischievous laugh, vivid arsenal of imaginative stories and inquisitive, chatty nature, Byron Hines has won himself a spot on many a nurses’ favorite-patient list. He’s whooped every volunteer who has dared to compete against him in a game of Sorry! or Monopoly, and on his good days, he’s quite the force to keep up with.

Brenda Flowers has lived with HIV for 10 years now. For most of that time, she kept the diagnosis to herself. She says she wanted to avoid that “certain look,” and she dreaded having her life defined solely by the fact she had the virus that causes AIDS. She was ashamed. And she was certain that she would be shunned by everyone who knew about her diagnosis.

Keon Lawrence is usually a talkative, engaging guy.

A 13-year-old boy prepares to punt a rubber football as far as his leg can.

The public had its first chance to see MU’s renovated and expanded student-athlete center in an open house Friday afternoon.