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The Columbia Area Transportation Study Organization will hold a public hearing on two proposed projects and their budgets for fiscal year 2012. 

Boone County residents warned to disregard mail offering copies of their property deeds. 

The airport runways and taxiways will be improved with the new Federal Aviation Administration grant, along with a land purchase. 

The two-day event normally hosts about 5,000 people.

By not expanding the public transit system (rather than cutting it), workers, students and citizens of Columbia become strapped by gas prices, hamstringing the economy.

The sagging economy and rising popularity of TLC's "Extreme Couponing" have been credited — or blamed, depending on whom you talk to — for the rise in coupon use among shoppers. But not all coupon-clippers are quite like those you see on TV.

Special sessions are becoming too routine, and these excessive meetings are calling attention to the wrong problems.

Mike Alden is faced with a difficult to decision to make about new basketball coach Frank Haith, who may not have come from the University of Miami as clean as Alden thought.

The recent high temperatures have brought a heat advisory from National Weather Service. Temperatures are expected to cool off Thursday, but until then, cooling centers across the city can help stave off the heat.

An increase of wireless devices on campus has been causing network connection problems as students and faculty came back to campus.

The Joplin School Board approved a nearly $30 million payment for July and part of August.

Albert Walker will be the new President of Harris-Stowe State University, replacing Henry Givens Jr.  

When the bank of a storm/sewer tunnel excavation site caved in, it pulled a water main pipe down as well.

An armed, masked robber targeted a convenience store Tuesday night.

After the magnitude 5.8 quake that rumbled the East Coast on Tuesday, people on the West Coast — where earthquakes are more common — took to Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus with taunting remarks.

The United States should maintain its supply of nuclear weapons because rogue states cannot be trusted to follow disarmament procedures.

Nelly is teaming with Vatterott College to produce a new music recording school called Vatterott College Ex'treme Institute.

Staffers were recently  moved to a separate state agency by Gov. Jay Nixon.

Missouri officials are working with the Pew Center on the States to analyze current sentencing laws, prison and probation programs, and recidivism rates.

The yoga studio's old space at the back of The Tiger Hotel will become a nightclub, the hotel's owner says.