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The rainout of Thursday night’s game between the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets pushed St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright back a day.

Around 120-150 athletes ages 5 through 14 will test their endurance Saturday in the Youth Lions Triathlon at Wilson’s Beach Club in Columbia.

Citing a continuing controversy over stem cell research in Missouri, officials with the Stowers Institute for Medical Research announced Thursday that plans for a major expansion have been suspended.

Heavy rainfall didn’t keep everyone inside for a lazy afternoon nap in their cozy homes. Some ventured into the downpour.

KOPN has been reformatting tapes in the station’s massive collection since 2004 with other state and local funding as part of its ongoing Reel-To-Reel Project.

A little over two weeks after a Chesterfield company took aerial photos of Columbia, about 25 people attended an open house Thursday night to learn about the future of the Natural Resources Inventory Project.

Columbia residents listened to and commented on the 2007 Columbia Transit draft master plan at a public hearing Thursday.

During the first wave of the morning rush at the Boone County Courthouse, the metal detector beeped frantically as a man walked through it. He checked his pockets as the uniformed court marshal calmly used the hand wand to ensure that the man’s brown, steel-plated boots were the only source of the metal detector’s agitation. Frequently, a gun or a set of brass knuckles is the culprit.

Once, Fred Baer, who has worked at the courthouse since 1989, found brass knuckles in a woman’s purse.

“She tried to blame her little girl on putting them in there,” he said. “She said she found them out playing and put them in her purse. A lot of people come in here don’t tell the truth.”

Reality House received two pieces of good news from the Boone County Commission this week.

The Boone County human resource department may have to dip into emergency funds for the third straight year.

A Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force investigation ended in the arrest of a 27-year-old Columbia man on suspicion of first-degree promotion of child pornography Thursday.

The Children’s Barn will recreate a natural farm environment, complete with common Missouri farm livestock and a staff of animal youth educators to help visitors better understand how Midwestern farms operate.

The Boone County human resource department may have to dip into emergency funds for the third straight year.

The county has $3,162.09 left in advertising funds to make it through the end of the year.

Wrestler Ben Askren has made a lasting impression at Missouri as a world-class athlete. He has just been nominated by ESPN for 2007's Best Male College Athlete.

Kansas City manager Buddy Bell and his Los Angeles counterpart Mike Scioscia were both eager to turn the page after the Royals swept the Angels in three games.

The idea of a classroom full of teachers discussing physics might make any student cringe. But when class involves making batteries out of potatoes and lemons, launching marbles into the air and stargazing in a field, students might take an interest.

The American bald eagle, a national symbol once almost wiped out by hunters and DDT poisoning, has not only survived but is thriving.

Gov. Matt Blunt made only minor changes as he signed off on a $21.5 billion state budget Wednesday. The state’s new fiscal year begins Sunday, so Blunt had to sign the 13 major budget bills by the end of this week.

Proposed changes in evening bus hours and ending a city bus line that goes to Hollywood and Forum 8 theaters are up for discussion at a public hearing at 7 tonight.