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Missouri has been outscored 43-0 in the third quarter in its four Big 12 Conference losses. The team hopes to cut short the trend this weekend when it hosts Texas. 

MU is buying Web addresses associated with the university to avoid its name being tied in with adult websites.

Parts of downtown Columbia are paved with history — or at least, 100-year-old bricks that have weathered their share of it. Now, there's talk of restoring or repaving some of the brick streets. It's a decision that hinges partially on history and partially on cost.

Ricardo Ratliffe scored 21 points and Missouri beat the University of Central Missouri 88-70 in the Tigers' final exhibition game Monday.

The project will add 12,000 square feet to the church — a large lobby area called a narthex, three classrooms, a fellowship hall and a kitchen.

Kim Presko will be the first principal of Battle High School, and Jolene Yoakum will succeed Wanda Brown as assistant superintendent for secondary education.

Agriculture Day was held outside of Rock Bridge High School to inform and educate high school students about agriculture in Missouri and encourage interest in agricultural careers.

The PedNet Coalition and Central Missouri Community Action were granted a total of $300,000, which will be used for a project that they hope will be a tool to help policy makers be more aware of how plans, projects and more might affect community health.

Seniors Jonas Gassmann and Andrew Bare along with sophomore Greg Kelly have all seen significant playing time for the Bruins this season.

The voluntary annexation would help the property prepare for development into a subdivision to be known as Creek's Edge.

Although the changes came too late for residents of Columbia Regency, in the future, residents will get more advance notice of mobile home park closures.

The Columbia City Council will hear a report on the old Osco Drug site tonight. The property is being leased to a contractor working on the MU power plant. 

IDEXX Laboratories Inc. bought the MU Research Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, which trains residents and graduate students in the MU Comparative Medicine Training Program.

The backup dispatch center is being built on land belonging to the Boone County Sheriff's Department and will serve as an emergency alternate location to the Office of Emergency Management. 

Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta is one of the only living recipients of the Medal of Honor for wartime valor. Giunta, who was nominated for the award after risking his life to save another soldier, will speak Tuesday night at MU.

Despite testimony that Darris Peal tried to stop the fight that led to Aaron Hobson's death, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

There are four confirmed cases of E. coli in the area, two of which share genetic material with the larger St. Louis outbreak. Public health officials have not found any commonalities between the Boone County cases.

On Tuesday evening, a 1,300-foot-wide asteroid will pass between the Earth and the moon. It will be the largest object to approach Earth since 1976.

Mann competed as a member of the U.S. senior national gymnastics team at 16.