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The former Mizzou football coach was stopped for a DWI and refused a chemical test, which prompted the loss of his license.
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Columbia Restaurant Week begins Friday, and 21 downtown restaurants and cafes are participating.
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The 15-week program provided detainees an opportunity to learn how to read sheet music and play the keys.
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The city's 17-page response, filed Monday, denies most of the allegations made by the original lawsuit.
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The estimate was based off of damage in Bollinger, Crawford, Iron, Madison, Morgan, Reynolds, Ripley, Washington and Wayne Counties from the July 9-11 storm system.
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The governor spoke at the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce "State of the State" at Great Southern Bank Arena.
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The pro-immigration leader is facing backlash at home and abroad after roughly 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave.
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It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.
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The FDA is poised to render a decision on Moderna's mRNA-based flu shot, which could be the first of its kind to market. The decision is expected to reverberate throughout the biotech industry.
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