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While there is no money owed on the land itself, the camp has had trouble staying out of debt since Ronald James, a physician who founded the camp, died in 2006.

With a majority of Americans tossing out their forgotten electronics, Mid-MO Recycling and the Mid-Missouri Solid Waste Management District have teamed up to host collections in hopes of preventing toxic pollution, while recycling and salvaging items that can be reused.

To keep residents from pushing leaves out into the streets, the city provides a few alternative means of disposal. 

Columbia safety agencies, such as the Police Department and Public Works Department, will be able to alert residents of emergencies through Nixle.com.

Amid declining sales tax revenue, Boone County and Columbia officials have decided to form a committee to explore the possibility of instituting a use tax on purchases made by residents online and out of state.

While Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the media could not avoid including Hasan's faith once it came up, he said this angle needs to be kept in perspective.

The recent Fort Hood tragedy is beginning to shed more light on how the medical profession handles psychological stress before, during and after combat. Post-traumatic stress disorder is being identified and treated more quickly than before.

The doors at 405 E. Nifong Blvd. will open to customers for the first time Tuesday morning. The store is Hy-Vee's second in Columbia, and a third is being planned to open next spring.

The Energy Information Administration estimates that residential natural gas prices in the West North Central region of the country, which includes Missouri, will be approximately a dollar less compared with last winter.

On Friday, the Alzheimer's Association Mid-Missouri Chapter hosted a research forum that featured keynote speaker Alison Goate, a genetics professor at the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.

Columbia's Ronald McDonald House is set to relocate as part of a plan to consolidate MU Health Care's children's services.

Military officials are trying to piece together what might have pushed Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspected shooter, to turn on his comrades.

Look at a breakdown of some of the key issues and where Missouri senators and representatives stand on pieces of health care reform.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asked military personnel and others to pause for a minute at 1:34 p.m., a day after an Army psychiatrist killed 12 soldiers and one civilian.

William Darnell McNeary was arrested in Tennessee last Wednesday. Columbia police said he shot a 15-year-old in July in a drive-by-shooting.

Everyone who was shot was in the offices of Reynolds Smith & Hills, on the eighth floor. The five survivors were in stable condition, Orlando Police Chief Val Demings said.

The Army psychiatrist who is a suspect in the assault at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 people and hurt 30 had trouble interacting with some of his patients, a former boss said.

Police in Orlando apprehended the gunman at his mother's home. Former Reynolds, Smith & Hill employee Jason Rodriguez, 40, was released from the transportation engineering consulting firm in June 2007 for performance issues.

Among the 13 people killed during the shooting Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas, were individuals who had different reasons for joining the military, but the same desire to serve their country.