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Pierce advanced to the finals earlier in the day by finishing 16th in preliminaries with a personal best time.

Police arrested a suspect Saturday morning after a city-owned truck was stolen and used in an attempt to run over a female victim.

A Columbia teen is one of two men charged in a series of armed bank robberies in early July. The amount taken from the banks totaled $42,321.

The Missouri Athletic Center's youth swim club, called "The Sharks," concluded its summer meet schedule with the Youth Swimming Championships in Fulton on Saturday.

Animal welfare groups say the stigma attached to pit bulls, coupled with the large number of dogs seized this week in multistate dogfighting raids, will hurt the dogs' chances of finding loving homes.

Robert Harris, a school bus driver, helped create the Cape Girardeau Community Garden Project six years ago, and he continues to exercise his "calling" by tending the gardens during the summer.

The launch is a test by the General Aviation Space Group as it prepares to create a private rocket that will put a satellite into Earth's orbit.

The highway patrol said the accident happened Friday afternoon near U.S. 136 and State Route O near Tarkio.