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Senior Tiffany Brooks scored the first two points against Kansas with two free throws. She went on to score nine of the team’s first 11.

Missouri is hoping to get help from the home crowd when they host the Big 12 Conference Wrestling Championship on Saturday at Hearnes Center. At the same time, the tournament could provide a boost for the entire wrestling community in the area.

Acie Law is one of those players. It seems like he has been playing college basketball for a while.

Columbia College freshman guard Whitney Widaman started playing basketball when she was 5. Her mother was the coach, and she gave Widaman some advice that has stuck with her.

STURGEON — It all started with a lie.

Last November, when a custom-made McNulty fortepiano arrived at the MU School of Music, piano professor Janice Wenger didn’t even wait for it to be in her office to play it.

An advisory committee to the Boone County Coordinating Board for Early Childhood Education met Thursday to brainstorm on what’s needed to create an improved early childhood education system.

Two Hickman High School students were injured early Thursday when their car spun off the road and overturned in heavy rain on Interstate 70 near the Stadium Boulevard exit.

Columbia City Council candidates gathered Thursday afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce for the first forum discussion ahead of the April 3 election. Mayor Darwin Hindman, who is seeking a fifth term, could not attend the meeting for reasons related to his treatment for prostate cancer, his representative Craig Brumfield said.

PIERCE CITY — “I’m sick of talking about this,” Willie Parks told me politely but firmly during a recent telephone interview.

Turmoil in the auto manufacturing industry has not escaped Columbia.

JEFFERSON CITY — In 1997, doctors diagnosed Richard Green with multiple sclerosis, a disease where the body’s immune cells attack the nervous system, leading to a slow, progressive degeneration.

Rocheport farmer Nancy Shepherd has several hours of chores to take care of this weekend. But between caring for her calving cows and baby potbellied pigs, she’ll be squeezing in time for seven films at the True/False Film Festival, which kicked off Thursday afternoon. At 11:15 a.m. Thursday, Shepherd was No. 90 in line at the Cherry Street Artisan for tickets, which went on sale at noon. Shepherd said she and her husband were inspired to attend True/False this year after attending the Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland a few years ago.

If you want the best view of Saturday’s twilight lunar eclipse, find a good view of the eastern horizon and be in place by 6 p.m.

Twenty-four summonses were issued to smokers and managers for failure to comply with the smoking ban during surprise inspections of Columbia bars on Thursday, according to a statement released by the Columbia/Boone County Health Department’s Environmental Health Division.