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When senior captain J.T. Tiller left the game with an ankle injury early in the second half, Missouri's bench players filled the void in the Tigers' 83-68 win over Tennessee-Martin on Tuesday at Mizzou Arena.

It was hard not to notice Missouri’s gangling 6-foot-8-inch, 205-pound forward during the Tigers’ season-opening 83-68 win against Tennessee-Martin on Tuesday night in front of 6,986 at Mizzou Arena.

The Columbia College men's basketball team lost 51-45 to Benedictine (Kan.) College on Tuesday night in Atchison, Kan., marking its third straight loss.

Gov. Nixon's proposal calls for a 5 percent decrease in total appropriations for the next fiscal year in exchange for flat tuition rates for in-state undergraduate students at Missouri's public colleges and universities.

LaChonia Reid testified in the death of her fiance, Miles Heard. Heard was shot and killed on Election Day last year in Douglass Park. Grady Dortch is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting.

The Columbia College women's basketball team won 77-60 Tuesday at Ottawa (Kan.) University.

Police are continuing to search for evidence, but they still have found no evidence of the buried glass jars with notes written by children, who might have documented sexual abuse.

A 17-year-old suspect in an arson that occurred near Prathersville in August was extradited to Boone County on Monday after his arrest in Denver.

Nixon's proposal calls for a 5.2 percent decrease in state appropriations compared to the current fiscal year.

A government task force said Monday that most women should get mammograms every two years starting at age 50 — a break from the American Cancer Society's advice to get yearly mammograms starting at age 40.

Former state Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and a $50,000 fine in a federal obstruction of justice case. Another former Missouri lawmaker and a campaign treasurer were also sentenced Tuesday for their involvement in the case. 

Only one of the five men has a lawyer. Detectives are also investigating allegations that the men might have killed several people.

Grady Dortch is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Miles Heard in Douglass Park last November. A fight over counterfeit money prompted the shooting, according to testimony in Tuesday's trial.

The former Missouri representative will now serve as a regional director.

The season began Saturday and runs through Nov. 24.

The market will be open from 10 a.m. to noon for the first three Saturdays of the month.

Former state Sen. Jeff Smith and former state Rep. Steve Brown pleaded guilty and resigned from office in August.

The H1N1 vaccine is now available free for healthy people ages 6 months to 24 years and people with a chronic medical condition ages 25 to 64 years.

Missouri’s four-year public colleges and universities may see a tuition freeze for the second year in a row.