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In his State of Transportation speech, Pete Rahn said roads are safer but urged lawmakers to find money for more transportation projects.In his required State of Transportation speech, Pete Rahn said roads are safer but urged lawmakers to find money for more transportation projects.

The director of MU’s Office for Financial Success was arrested on suspicion of stealing university money, MU police said Wednesday.

Boosted by his big night, John McCain asked his loudest conservative critics Wednesday to “calm down” and support his Republican presidential candidacy, as Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton girded for more rounds of their protracted struggle for the Democratic nomination.

Tuesday's voting for the Republican and Democratic nominees for president showed that the races are far from over. What do you think of the results?

John McCain earned himself a super Wednesday, a day to savor coast-to-coast primary victories that ratified him as the Republican front-runner, while Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama dug in after a night of divided spoils in a Democratic presidential contest that could stretch to the spring.

Boone County gave Sen. Barack Obama a clear win in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary, but the state result was so close it ensures an almost even split of the delegates for Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton. Obama had about a one percentage point lead.

Boone County residents who voted in the presidential primary on Tuesday differed overall with those statewide, picking Barack Obama as their overwhelming favorite for the Democratic nomination and Mitt Romney as the most popular Republican in the race.

Boone County results put former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ahead over Arizona Sen. John McCain. But McCain won the state's 58 delegates.

Libertarian voters were few and far between on presidential primary day in Boone County, but after the dust settled and most of the votes were counted, Wayne Root was the local winner with seven votes.