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Which is more disturbing: That the president and vice-president continue to deny that the United States engaged in torture, or that the right-wing pundits use the plot of a TV show to justify such actions?

Whenever there is a drastic change in ideas and behavior there will always be a backlash. Change can be painful. It means you have to give up something. You have to turn loose something you may not necessarily have held dear, but was something you had become accustomed to. The good news is, with time, people learn to adapt.

Throughout the city, events were held Monday to honor Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most iconic figures of the U.S. civil rights movement.

Medication will be distributed to 12,000 child refugees from the Russian invasion in August and 12,000 children under age 5 in the high mountain regions of Georgia, said ACTS President Patricia "Trish" Blair, a Columbia resident who founded the group.

Investigators have determined that an electrical malfunction caused a fire in a vacant home early Saturday, Chief Gale Blomenkamp of the Boone County Fire Protection District said.

Retailers are making drastic changes, such as being more customer-friendly and hiring outside experts to keep inventory lean, to offset expected falls in consumer spending.

Steve Calloway will not run for another term this year in order to focus his time on his family.

Volunteers handed out compact fluorescent light bulbs to Columbia residents on Monday evening at J.W. "Blind" Boone Community Center on North Providence Road in conjunction with President-elect Barack Obama's call for a national day of service.

A Boone Hospital Center ambulance collided with a car north of Columbia on Sunday. The teenage driver of the car was taken to University Hospital with serious injuries.