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The Columbia City Council approved a resolution to hire a consultant to look into building a new airport terminal. Mayor Bob McDavid said a consultant is needed because the city is not sure of the cost of a new terminal.

Tuesday night's game against Arkansas will be the Tigers' last regular season home game and an opportunity to go undefeated at Mizzou Arena. The Tigers will also see former Missouri coach Mike Anderson's return to Mizzou Arena for the first time since leaving to coach the Razorbacks.

The fifth annual Howard B. Lang Jr. Award for outstanding volunteer service to Columbia will be given to Eva Jo Sapp's husband and other family members at a ceremony before the City Council meeting April 1.

Washing 100 or more cars, by hand, every week at the Joe Machens Automotive Group is all in a day's work for the dealership's car preppers and detailers.

George Justice will accept a position as dean of Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.

Nancy Thompson will take over for Fred Boeckmann on April 8 as Columbia's city attorney.

The Missouri baseball team is having its worst start the program has seen, with a 0-6 record.

The Trailblazers recently practiced inside a classroom because of the weather and because they were pushed out of their regular indoor facility.

Florida (No. 11) remains as the only ranked team in the SEC, but it dropped three spots after losing to Tennessee.

Cougars players say Park University players have been disrespecting them on social media leading up to Tuesday's American Midwest Conference tournament championship. 

Rudy Perez Jr. is facing a charge of first-degree murder in the beating death of a patient at the Truman Veterans Hospital.

Warm weather is around the corner for Columbia. First, however, there will be a little bit of snow.

The Missouri athletics department confirmed Monday that sophomore pitcher Bailey Erwin will be leaving the Tigers softball team and transferring from MU.

Laura McHugh's debut novel, "The Weight of Blood," is set to be released by Spiegel and Grau, a publishing imprint of Random House, sometime in early 2014.

In their defense of Sandra Plunkett — accused of killing her husband two years ago — her attorneys will present evidence that she was battered by her spouse. She will undergo a psychiatric evaluation before her trial.

A quarter of homes in Boone County are estimated to exceed the Environmental Protection Agency's radon action level. Radon, which causes lung cancer, can accumulate in homes and be inhaled.

The bill focuses on hours rather than days and would increase the minimum requirement of instructional time from 1,044 hours to 1,080 hours.

The 6-foot-11 freshman forward on the Missouri men's basketball team always hesitates when someone asks this question: "Where are you from?"

The Cougars beat William Woods 91-83 on Monday in the American Midwest Conference tournament championship at the Arena of Southwell Complex.