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It’s almost a given Ben Askren will win a national championship for the Missouri wrestling team this weekend.

If the Missouri baseball team was hoping to see stiff competition in preparation for Big 12 Conference play on March 23, Wednesday night’s game against Saint Louis didn’t offer it.

After March 7th’s doubleheader against Wichita State, MU softball coach Ehren Earleywine was concerned about the lack of consistency from his pitching staff. But after Wednesday’s doubleheader sweep of North Dakota State, Earleywine was pleased with the performances inside the circle at University Field.

As the team’s leadoff hitter, Lindsey Williams’s job is to get on base to give her teammates on the Columbia College softball team a chance to win.

While living in a Boston flat with a beautiful view, filmmaker Laurie Kahn-Leavitt had a friend who would climb up to her window, jump in and say, “Let’s go see a movie.”

In the final days of rehearsals for “The Story,” MU’s upcoming drama about truth, racial equality and professional integrity, director Clyde Ruffin isn’t losing his nerve and never raises his voice. Rather, he calls on the actors to dig deep and personalize their characters.

One of the first things a student at Hickman High School demanded to know from best-selling author Peter Hessler was: Did he really eat a rat?

The Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital will receive about $26 million in federal money to renovate and build operating room suites.

JEFFERSON CITY — The trend of privatizing state services came under fire last week following the apprehension of nearly two dozen suspected illegal immigrants who were working for a government contractor.

The Missouri Department of Transportation will accept public input on the new Gans Road/U.S. 63 interchange at an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Lenoir Community Center, 1 Hourigan Circle.

A trial for a man being held in connection with the March 29, 2006 murder of Carlos Kelly began Wednesday at Boone County Courthouse.

Joe Carroll has been a busy guy.

Since Jan. 1, the director of campaign finance for the Missouri Ethics Commission said he has taken more than 100 calls from school board candidates, legislators and municipal candidates from all over the state.

Almost $40,000 was spent on additional security and supplies for the 45-minute National Socialist Movement march in downtown Columbia on Saturday, state and local law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Most of the city’s expenditures went toward the Columbia Police Department.

Columbia police volunteers who do clerical work at the police department, assist officers at sobriety check points and work annual events like the Show Me State Games now can add child care to their list of duties.

JEFFERSON CITY — The governor’s plan to sell off some of the assets of Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority is in a political deadlock. Republicans and Democrats are not compromising on a plan, and Democrats cannot come to an agreement among themselves, one Senate Democrat said Wednesday.

Flanked by hundreds of visitors to the Missouri State Capitol, a building where emotions have run high the past few days, Steve Knorr sits on the steps in the rotunda eating his boxed lunch. He’s largely unnoticed by the many MU alumni who are in Jefferson City for a meet-and-greet with legislators and to hear remarks from UM System President Elson Floyd on Wednesday.