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OKLAHOMA CITY— EeTisha Riddle posted up under the basket, furiously pleading to Tiffany Brooks to throw her the ball in the first half of Missouri’s game against Texas on Tuesday night.

If it has done nothing else in the first 15 games of the season, the Missouri baseball team has certainly silenced any doubts about its young pitching staff.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Freshman Amanda Hanneman sat between Marissa Scott and Tiffany Brooks, biting her thumbnail as senior Carlynn Savant made two free throws during the loss against Texas on Tuesday night.

For years, 17-year-old Greg Abbott watched from his wheelchair while his brothers played baseball. But in May it will be their turn to cheer for him.

She may not be the gymnast that grabs the headlines, the one with the sky-high tumbling or nail-biting beam flips. But when you tally Missouri’s team score at the end of every competition, there is one name that will always count — that of senior Amanda Pezzullo.

JEFFERSON CITY — It was a voice mail greeting from a teenager’s cell phone — one that most of her friends rarely heard because she always picked up. “She didn’t want you to hear this,” the grieving father told a hearing room full of state representatives. “She wanted to talk to you live.”

The Bonne Femme watershed is home to a diverse ecosystem of streams and caves, including the Devil’s Icebox and Hunter’s Cave, along with endangered species such as the Indiana bat and cherrystone snail.

Providing teachers and parents with a base to improve the quality of students’ mathematics education became the issue of the night on Tuesday, when about 50 people gathered in the Monsanto Auditorium in the MU Life Sciences Building to hear James Hiebert talk about his research.

A Boone County jury took just 15 minutes to find a Columbia man guilty of raping a homeless woman in a city park last July.

JEFFERSON CITY — Members of the health care community dissected a Senate Medicaid bill Tuesday, praising it for simplifying the health care system and criticizing it for increasing state oversight.

An MU policy that gave student veterans less time to make up incomplete classes than civilians was pulled from the registrar’s Web site after it was brought to Chancellor Brady Deaton’s attention Friday.

Columbia residents want the National Socialist Movement to leave the city disappointed after its planned march Saturday.

JEFFERSON CITY — Since the U.S. Congress failed to agree on immigration legislation last year, many states — including Missouri — are taking the matter into their own hands.

JEFFERSON CITY — Some state senators are vowing to block a bill that critics claim would essentially legalize sexual harassment in Missouri by making it more difficult to prove discrimination.

Fred Schmidt was taught to love the game of billiards growing up. When he was about five, his dad’s mechanic brought a billiards table to their St. Louis home and introduced him to the game.

JEFFERSON CITY — About two dozen suspected illegal immigrants employed by a Missouri state government contractor were detained Tuesday evening in a series of joint federal-state raids of government buildings in the capital.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Five associates of a Missouri-based Islamic charity have been indicted on charges that they illegally sent money to Iraq, the U.S. attorney's office announced Wednesday.