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The Missouri football team’s practice drills and scrimmages are set up to avoid the injuries that could spell doom for any team’s season.

The Columbia School Board held a retreat Monday, in part, to talk about communication skills. The team-building session was led by Sarah Read of Communications Center Inc. and stressed effective communication and the importance of listening.

The injunction hearing for Warren Funeral Chapel and its owners, which was originally scheduled for Tuesday morning, has been postponed until Aug. 25, according to Missouri Case.net.

A state judge will decide in October on a lawsuit seeking to block $21 million from going to the Life Sciences Research Board.Stem cell research critics want a temporary order preventing the money transfer while the Life Sciences Research Board is asking that the lawsuit be tossed out.

I don't know if the warpath against the cable loss means people are seriously addicted or they feel that things are falling apart so fast in the world around them that they look upon the boob tube as their last frontier.

The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants. New regulations, which don’t require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been performing for 35 years, according to a draft obtained by The Associated Press.

Two of the five men charged in a home invasion during which a 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted had their jury trials delayed for a sixth time.

A joint city and county Planning and Zoning commission meeting scheduled for Tuesday night has been canceled.

The study authored by University of Michigan obesity researcher MaryFran Sowers shows that about half of overweight adults had mostly normal levels of blood pressure, cholesterol, blood fats and sugar.

 Since the launch of their Web site, factorygreen.com, in late April, entrepreneurs and MU pre-med seniors Daniel Lyons and Jack Short have taken a passion and turned it into a business.

Schools will have to examine cost-cutting policies, including reducing portion sizes and providing seasonal produce.

A 46-year-old man is dead of suffocation after getting lodged between a boat motor and its tow bar at Lake of the Ozarks.

A Hannibal man is dead after reportedly trying to stop two men from attacking awoman, and his alleged assailants face charges of second-degree murder.

GetAbout Columbia was established to decide how to use a $21.5 million federal grant to promote nonmotorized transportation around town.

What effect will the priority GetAbout projects have on the environment?

The Barry County Sheriff says a Kansas City-area man is dead after his single-engine plane crashed in southwestern Missouri.

Jury selection begins in the trial of a man accused in the ambush killing of a rural Warren County grandfather.