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Aanya Shetty, 11, consulted her hand for a few seconds, tracing the letters along the grooves of her palm. She looked up, stepped toward the microphone and spelled out the word with a steady cadence. -
Hundreds of community members gathered to honor the life of Mike Woods on Monday night at the Rock Bridge High School football field. Former students, co-workers and old friends shared their fond tributes of Woods.
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Rock Bridge High School home school communicator Mike Woods died Friday night after a shooting at a Tennessee highway rest stop.
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Workers at Daniel Boone Regional Library made state history on Monday, becoming the first library staff to unionize in Missouri.
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State Rep. Sara Walsh, R-Ashland, is dropping out of the Republican primary for the newly drawn 4th Congressional District, in essence because she believes she can no longer win.
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The Missouri House has granted initial approval to the latest version of Blair’s Law.The proposed law is named after an 11-year-old girl from the Kansas City area who was killed in 2011 when she was struck by a stray bullet on the Fourth of July. It attempts to ban what is often called “celebratory gunfire,” or people firing bullets indiscriminately into the air.
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Here is a look at the candidates and issues in Tuesday's election for Columbia mayor, city council and school board.
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The UM System is $315 million short in the total amount of money that will be owed to future retirees on its pension plan.Members of the UM System Board of Curators are considering ways to solve the problem, including encouraging some participants to opt out of the benefits.
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In 1996, Rexroy Scott was a 19-year-old soccer player in a small, hard-working community on the northeast coast of Jamaica.He quickly found himself facing American culture head-on after a Jamaican professor gave the soccer coach at Lincoln University a tip about a young defender worthy of a scholarship.
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Four students from Hickman and Battle high schools asked the Columbia School Board to install metal detectors at their schools and implement more safety measures against gun violence.
