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City officials explore options for meeting Columbia's future energy needs by meeting with representatives of AmerenUE. A second nuclear plant in Callaway County is being discussed.

The Missouri House and Senate have interpreted the Sunshine Law not to apply to individual lawmakers — even though it does apply to the legislature as a whole, legislative committees and legislative staff.

A Rocheport artist, born and raised in Osaka, Japan, brings her ceramics to Orr Street Studios, with work that fuses Japanese and American cultures.

The Lunar New Year, which begins Monday, will be represented as the year of the ox, according to the Chinese zodiac.

Congressional Democrats say the quickest way to save homeowners is to allow judges to dictate new mortgage terms, but lenders don't want to be brought to bankruptcy court.

President Barack Obama's first week in the White House leaves energy independence, economy and health care on the table.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' campgrounds should be open by Memorial Day. The campgrounds were closed last year because of flood damage.

Psychologists say Israel's three-week offensive inflicted more severe trauma than previous conflicts in Gaza because civilians in the crowded sliver of territory had no safe place to run.

Al-Qaida has launched a deliberate, some say desperate, campaign against the new president now that the more polarizing George W. Bush is out of office.

A Kansas man who was caught with fake IDs, Social Security cards and other counterfeit documents was sentenced to eight years and five months in prison.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will not attend his impeachment trial, which starts Monday. The governor, who refuses to resign from office, is scheduled to appear on "Good Morning, American," "The View" and "Larry King Live," instead of attending the trial.

The Missouri Department of Information Technology is using the virtual world, Second Life, to hold job recruitment events.

A federal judge determined that a Joplin man can pay his co-defendants' legal fees and share defense attorneys in a case concerning a 43-count federal indictment alleging multiple counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

A woman was killed and her husband was critically injured in the shooting on the Poplar Street Bridge.

After a 97-86 loss to Missouri on Saturday, Texas Tech coach Pat Knight says that he's focusing on teaching during practice to help rebuild the Red Raiders. Knight replaced his father, Bob Knight, in the middle of last season.

DeMarre Carroll is playing well on offense for the Missouri men's basketball team this season, providing Missouri with 16.3 points per game.

Hickman High School hosted its 19th Annual Invitational Wrestling Tournament over the weekend. It was one of the final matches for senior Vince Pescaglia, the youngest of three brothers who have wrestled for Hickman.

Students at MU are forming a Jewish-interest sorority to add diversity into the Greek community. 

An arctic pattern that has kept mid-Missouri cold but without much snow is in the process of shifting to a zonal pattern that could allow measurable snow to finally fall.

The Missouri women's basketball team lost for the fourth time in its past five games thanks to another poor shooting performance even though Tigers coach Cindy Stein said her team had extra shooting practice last week.