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When Texas standout freshman Kevin Durant scored 34 points and grabbed 13 rebounds against Missouri a month ago, nobody thought much of it. After all, Durant is averaging nearly 25 points per game this season.

Both Hickman and Rock Bridge each ended Thursday’s session of the state wrestling meet having had only one wrestler eliminated. That was where the similarities stopped.

When Douglass senior Anthony Massengale tried to recall his favorite basketball memory after Thursday’s 78-33 rout of the visiting Jamestown Eagles, words escaped him.

On August 16, 2004 in Athens, Greece, Natalie Coughlin lived out her lifelong dream. Swimming in the finals of the 100-meter backstroke at the Olympic Games, Coughlin touched the wall at the end of the race just ahead of Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry. She had won her first gold medal.

Dressed in a furry white robe adorned with pink and red hearts and a red bow tied around her ponytail, sophomore Missouri gymnast Adrianne Perry came to practice on Wednesday in the Valentine’s Day spirit.

JEFFERSON CITY — An expanded retirement benefit tax cut bill was given preliminary approval by the Missouri House on Thursday, moving it a step closer to final House passage before it goes to the Senate.

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority saga continued Thursday with two major developments: an analyst advising the members of the loan authority to halt the MOHELA sale and the president of the University of Missouri System making concessions about stem cell research.

MU’s Standing Committee on Research Responsibility is scheduled to meet March 8 to review allegations against a researcher who is accused of doctoring photographs that accompanied research published last year in Science magazine.

ATLANTA — Government scientists struggled Thursday to pinpoint the source of the first U.S. salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter.

The city of Kansas City owns more than 200 cars and trucks that run on natural gas, a cleaner and less expensive fuel compared to liquid gasoline. But a couple of flaws in the technology have caused private consumers to steer clear — until now.

JEFFERSON CITY — The House voted Thursday to expand the right for potential crime victims to use deadly force against their attackers.

Jann Carl of “Entertainment Tonight” will merge two of her interests this weekend when she returns to Columbia to host the “Model Citizen Fashion Show.”

Imagine offering your couch to a complete stranger for the night, someone who could be visiting your city from anywhere in the world.

Cesar Becerra has been sleeping on couches in Columbia, but he is on the road to greater things.

Missourians can go online to vote on the design for a new state license plate through March 5 by going to dory.dor.mo.gov/dor/voteplate/.

A woman, her dog and her cat escaped injury in a house fire Friday morning, alerted by a smoke alarm.

A Columbia woman was arrested Thursday on suspicion of one felony charge of stealing and seven counts of felony forgery after a Boone County Sheriff’s Department investigation uncovered the loss of $72,000 from the company where she worked.

A snow and blowing snow advisory has been posted for Columbia and much of the northern two-thirds of Missouri from 6 p.m. Friday to noon Saturday.

The son of MU basketball coach Mike Anderson was arrested early this morning on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.