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This year's festival will include 31 films, to be played at MU's Jesse Auditorium, Missouri United Methodist Church's The Picturehouse and five other downtown theaters.

Fr. Tolton Regional Catholic High School has raised enough money to cover the costs of the new school building. Now, it looks to build enrollment and raise more support to cover operating costs in the future.

The Missourian is working on a special project about Columbia's youth. Do you know someone who is making a difference in the lives of Columbia's kids? Tell us about them. 

Sharon Kinden of Columbia kept her promise to donate an inheritance from an uncle to Pathways Africa, a nonprofit organization started by Billy Jivetti, an MU doctoral student in rural sociology. He started the organization to bring health care to his rural village in Kenya. Now, with Kinden's help, the Fellbaum Community Health Centre Emmaus is under construction.

Billy Jivetti founded Pathways Africa to promote health care in his home region of rural western Kenya, and he is building a hospital through a donation from a Columbia resident.

A part-time mediator would try to resolve claims against officers before they are appealed, hopefully decreasing the delay in response to the complaints.

The council hopes to receive funding for improvements at Columbia Regional Airport and on Eighth Street.

The two states are adopting new limits on what people can own while still being eligible for food stamps. Texas, Utah and California also have asset tests.

Boyd Group International gave a promising presentation to city officials and the public regarding the future of the Columbia Regional Airport.

Under Missouri guidelines, Alyssa Bustamante, 18, would have to serve 35 years and 5 months in prison before she is eligible for parole. Bustamante originally had been charged with first-degree murder but pleaded guilty in Januarylast month to the lesser charges to avoid a trial and the possibility of spending her life in an adult prison with no chance of release.

The signing classes are headlined by football commitments to Football Bowl Subdivision schools University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Memphis and University of Minnesota.

Venus, Uranus and the moon will be visible within the same lens at 8 p.m. public viewing at Laws Observatory.

The FBI's records of the number of police officers, civilian employees and the total number of law enforcement employees  in Missouri cities is compared to the populations of those cities.

Opponents of the narrowly approved ordinance, which would require  employers to check if employees are legally in the country, said it would be challenged in court or by petition.

The survey, conducted by Massachusetts researchers and published in Health Affairs, found more than half of doctors admitted to describing a patient's prognosis in a way they knew was too rosy.

The Missouri Senate approved a bill that would require workers who fight firings to prove in court that discrimination was a "motivating factor."

Sen. Mike Parson, R-Bolivar, said pushing the filing period back is necessary because state lawmakers might not have enough time to file for their candidacies.

Rick Santorum's victories in Missouri, Colorado and Minnesota focus attention on Mitt Romney's and Newt Gingrich's weaknesses and expose divisions in the Republican Party.

Rick Santorum won the Missouri Republican Primary and caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado on Tuesday, defeating former frontrunner Mitt Romney.