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A decision to put a high school in a place with no existing sewer lines, with country roads with no curbs or shoulders has left Boone County officials and utility providers wondering how to meet the demands the proposed school would create.

In the Thursday night break-in, the suspect stole money and the victim's SUV, which was recovered Friday morning.

Imagine Columbia’s Future will soon narrow its focus from brainstorming “big ideas” to picking priorities as Wednesday’s deadline approaches for members of 13 Citizen Topic Groups to submit their individual visions to the city.

State troopers seized $600,000 in cash in plastic-wrapped bundles from a semitrailer near Joplin, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.

Importing live silver carp into the United States or transporting the invasive species across state lines will be illegal later this summer.

“I wish you will do something to save a life,” my friend Gomez wrote me in a letter during my Peace Corps service in Niger. He needed me to help his HIV-positive sister. It was the most shocking moment during my time in his country.

Energizer Holdings Inc. will buy Playtex for about $1.16 billion — adding sun screen, wet wipes and sippy cups to the product line.

A Q & A with the general manager of AMF Town and Country bowling lanes.

Attacks on humanism, whether secular or sectarian, is on the rise and we, as Americans of religion or of heresy, should be very angry.

The clunk of rubber wheels on the wooden floor and the smell of sweat. Hot red faces under shining, colorful helmets. These are a few of a roller girl’s favorite things.

This weekend at Midway Exposition Center, about 111 horses and riders from Missouri and various other states will compete in the 2007 Missouri Dressage Classic.

Wakeboarding enthusiasts will have a chance to see some of the best at the fourth annual Midwestcoast Summerfest wakeboard competition on Saturday and Sunday at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Albert Pujols wants to make this absolutely clear: He is not feuding with Tony La Russa. Pujols was the only player from the defending World Series champion Cardinals to be picked for the All-Star game. He also was the only non-pitcher that La Russa, the NL manager, did not use in a 5-4 loss Tuesday night.

MU fraternity Alpha Gamma Sigma’s alumni association has asked the city of Columbia for planned commercial zoning and development approval for its newly acquired property on Rollins Street.

JEFFERSON CITY — Republican Rep. Carl Bearden, the No. 2 ranking member in the Missouri House, resigned Thursday to take an advocacy job in which he could end up lobbying his former colleagues on education issues.

JEFFERSON CITY — A federal judge has ordered the state to provide better notice to families before dropping their children’s health coverage.

Attorney General Jay Nixon announced a new Web site Thursday that will let consumers investigate complaints lodged against Missouri businesses.

Missouri freshman Nick Adcock’s win in the decathlon at the National Junior Championship sent him to the Pan American Junior Championships in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he ended his season last weekend picking up the silver.

Representatives from the NCAA, physicians and medical experts reviewed evidence of sickle cell trait deaths as part of a special task force for the National Athletic Trainers Association.