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Last year during spring practice, Missouri kicker Jeff Wolfert was a walk-on in competition with incumbent kicker Adam Crossett to be the Tigers’ primary field goal kicker.

The television inside the Jefferson City Country Club Wednesday featured golfers preparing for today’s Masters Tournament under a warm Georgia sun.

When an entire offense is clicking the way the Columbia College softball team’s has been lately, no one wants to be the lone hitter in the lineup who is not producing. In Wednesday’s doubleheader sweep of Missouri Baptist, Stephanie Kababie made sure she wasn’t that person.

It’s something you rarely hear Rock Bridge boys tennis coach Ben Loeb say after a home match.

The Tiger track and field team canceled the Missouri invitational that was slated for Saturday. Officials said the cold forecast, with a possible low of 25 degrees, was the reason for the cancellation.

Among the cases the Missouri Court of Appeals will hear today when it convenes in a public session at MU’s School of Law is the lesser-known of two Boonville bridge cases.

The rights of Native American, gays and lesbians, and women will be the focus of the second annual Social Justice Seder tonight at 6 p.m. at the Hillel Center.

With passage of a $9 million bond issue Tuesday, Centralia’s Chance Elementary School will have room to spread out, said its principal, Sandra Dorr.

The UM System Board of Curators is expected to name an interim president to replace outgoing president Elson Floyd at the board’s meeting on the University of Missouri-Rolla campus this week.

Third-grader Nicholas Orazio likes to ride his bike. But he said he is worried about Missouri’s helmet laws.

The unofficial results are in, and the mayoral race in Sturgeon is no closer to being decided than it was before election day.

JEFFERSON CITY — The third consecutive day of Missouri Senate debate on Medicaid organization ended Wednesday with the passage, by voice vote, of a bill to restructure Medicaid and call it HealthNet.

Are there gangs in Columbia? The answer seems to lie in definitions.

The Boone County Fire Protection District has started advertising for one of two positions aimed at replacing former Assistant Fire Chief Sharon Curry. At a meeting Wednesday, Fire Chief Steve Paulsell said the Fire Protection District has run three advertisements and received 26 applications for an executive assistant.

The Missouri Sierra Club asked Gov. Matt Blunt on Wednesday to reappoint or replace Thomas Herrmann, the chairman of the Missouri Clean Water Commission. Herrmann’s last appointment to the Commission expired in April 2004.

Integrating new technology into the workplace often involves growing pains and steep learning curves. This struggle to adapt holds true in higher education — unless you are a “digital native,” a student who grows up with new forms of technology. Conversely, administrators and professors without much knowledge of newer forms of technology are often called “digital immigrants.”

Police arrested a Columbia man early Thursday on suspicion of stabbing a 34-year-old Columbia man.

Although the University of Missouri System Board of Curators remained mum at Thursday’s board meeting, a co-worker confirmed that former interim UMKC chancellor Gordon Lamb would take over as interim UM System president.