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Phillip Lee McDuffy suffered two broken arms, a broken jaw and an orbital fracture when he fell 15 feet from a bridge after being Tasered.

The man was identified as 45-year-old Phillip Lee McDuffy of Columbia. As of Friday night, he is in critical condition in University Hospital.

COLUMBIA — In a small, beige-walled room at the Museum of Art and Archaeology, Kelly Archer had her first look at a trio of micromosaics, framed and under glass. The biggest one, no larger than a silver dollar, depicts the Coliseum of Rome in intricate detail. With the help of a magnifying glass, Archer got a better look at the hundreds of colored bits forming the rows of columns and arches.

The tiny representations of places abroad can be found in “The Fine Art of Living: Luxury Objects from the East and West,” currently at MU’s Museum of Art and Archaeology. The exhibit features an array of useful and beautiful objects once owned by the noble elite from around the world.

A man fell or possibly jumped off the overpass at Providence and 1-70 at about 12:05 p.m. Friday. Emergency crews placed him in neck and back braces before putting him in a University Hospital ambulance, Columbia Police Officer Mark Brotemarkle said. The man was breathing.

The boy's parents, Horace Johnson, 25, and Keyonda Lumpkin, 26, have both been charged with the class A felony of second-degree murder. The bond on each warrant was set for $1 million, cash only.

William Crist, who is a candidate for a new position in the Health Affairs department at the University of Arizona, will visit the Tucson campus on Thursday to take part in a forum.

Veterans are admitted into VA hospitals by priorities including the percents of service-connected disabilities, income and receipt of a purple heart.

The four-officer unit will focus on "career criminals" and areas with increased violent crime.

Inspections of Warren Funeral Home have found unsanitary conditions that have led the attorney general to ask it to be closed.

Columbia City Manager Bill Watkins removed Darrell Foster from the committee to maintain a neutral search process.

PedNet director Ian Thomas has said the extension is inexpensive and could raise property values around it. Others say the extension is a move to spend federal money quickly.

Several Boone County roads are reported closed because of flooding from heavy rains. Showers and thunderstorms remain in the forecast.

To mosquitoes, some of us are smorgasbords, and others are as tasty as cardboard. As the mosquito season begins in earnest — if it hasn’t already in your microclimate — those on the buffet line might dread its arrival more than the rest of us, but there’s no escaping.

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.