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The bill includes funding for projects such as a new Ellis Fischel Cancer Center and MOHELA projects but excludes a number of programs, including an outreach program for St. Louis high school dropouts.

Legislation passed by the Missouri House would require new owners of foreclosed properties to give current tenants 10 business days' warning before evicting them.

The bill would allow design and construction contracts to be rolled into one contract, possibly saving the state money.

Tigers senior Peter Malnati was one of 10 individuals chosen to compete at an NCAA regional golf tournament in Stillwater, Okla.

The effectiveness of the hog industry's process of self-monitoring for disease is the subject of debate among health experts and farmers.

An anonymous source told the Associated Press that Justice Department officials will not recommend criminal charges against the Bush administration lawyers who approved the torture of terror suspects.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education recently notified MU's School of Medicine that the school was put on probation for undisclosed reasons. The council has sixty days to write a letter outlining the problem.

The three new cases involve children age 5 to 18, while the previously confirmed cases include a Nebraska woman in her 50s who had traveled to Mexico, a California man in his 40s visiting Omaha and a 19-year-old Missouri man.

A boy from Arcadia is still missing more than 24 hours after he was reported lost. Hundreds of police and volunteers are still searching for the boy, reportedly wearing a dark blue and green T-shirt and a pull-up diaper before he went missing.

Laid-off factory worker Dorie Clark had a choice: settle into a life of leisure whittling wood or lazing around the fishing hole, or find a new job.

The resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to vote by secret ballot in elections concerning referendums, public officials and employee representation.

A woman was robbed at gunpoint Monday evening while cleaning her automobile at a Paris Road car wash

How much can you say in 10 minutes of dialogue? A lifetime and more in the hands of the right writer. MU senior Jessica Huang's script, "Mermaids," won at a regional theater festival in Lawrence, Kan., in January, making it one of four 10-minute plays produced at a national competition in April* in Washington, D.C. Huang, who studies journalism and playwriting*, holds tight to her creativity and the depth of storytelling even as she responds to a societal demand for information to be faster and shorter.

A plan to ease crowding at Lange Middle School would send future middle-schoolers to Gentry Middle School and transfer some current Lange students to Gentry.

Bicyclists can ride the bus for free this week as long as space is available on bus bike racks. The entire community is invited to use Columbia Transit on Thursday at no charge.

The new $5 million regional center will be built on city-owned park land.

MoDOT has decided its "preferred alternative" for the extension of Stadium Boulevard. The estimated cost for this project is $132.2 million, which includes purchasing 275 acres of right of way.

Swine flu scams have surfaced on the Internet in the last few days offering everyday items at inflated prices, such as paper masks and antiseptic wash.

All of Columbia's representatives voted in favor of the bill providing $336 million. It now moves to the state Senate. If passed, the bill would fund a new building for Ellis Fischel Cancer Center and renovations to MU hospitals and clinics.