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Jake and Jenny reached the halfway point in the couple’s first pregnancy on Tuesday. During the doctor’s checkup, they learned the sex of their baby and that everything is normal.

Under a new agreement called “Preparing to Care,” the state’s colleges and universities will ask the legislature for $38.3 million in recurring funds to open more places for students to train to become dentists, nurses, optometrists, pharmacists, physicians and therapists.

Columbia public school students who get supplemental education at the Center for Gifted Education were sent back early to their regular classes Thursday because of fumes anticipated from a re-roofing project.

Children learn about music in several ways around Columbia.

A man was treated for a gunshot wound to the lower leg after a gun in his front pants pocket went off as he was walking, police said.

For Tommy Saunders, working out diligently not only helps gain muscle for the football field, it also lifts his spirits

Darnell Terrell doesn't have much time for it now as a starter for the Tigers, but ever since he was a child he has loved drawing, especially comic book characters.

Bill Cocos, 76, has been at every Mizzou football home game since 1948. That’s 337 games.

The Tigers say last season's controversial loss at Iowa State isn't on their minds heading into Saturday's game against the Cyclones at Memorial Stadium.

Hard running Rob Heath, a third-generation Hickman football player, is on the verge of setting the Kewpies’ single-season rushing record in the team’s last two games.

After leaving the Hickman football team, former coach Gregg Nesbitt has settled down at the University of Central Missouri, coaching with both sons, Ryan and Kellen Nesbitt.

As fires destroying much of southern California continue to rage, one conservationist urged for a more flexible approach to fire during a meeting at MU on Thursday.

A nonprofit volunteer organization hosted the third annual event at the Fieldhouse.

A 65-year-old man who was trapped in his burning SUV after crashing it into a ditch Thursday afternoon died at University Hospital shortly afterward, Columbia police said. That marked the fourth fatality after a car crash this month.

With Halloween closing in, bloggers are beginning to take notice of the CIA’s official “Terrorist Buster” logo. Some say the CIA logo resembles the logo from the 1984 comedy film “Ghostbusters.”

Before the Maryland Invitational, the second tennis tournament of the season, Missouri senior Chrissy Svetlic and freshman Mallory Weber had never played together competitively. Since then, however, the pair has claimed two doubles titles.

What do a group of four Ph.D.s do for fun? Well, Bob Kvam, Joe Kunce, Jim Craigmile and Earl Lundgren head to the Senior Center every Tuesday and Thursday for a game of pool.

Shoes That Fit is a national organization that provides shoes and clothes to children in need. In 2006, the charity collected 786 pairs of shoes in Columbia.