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City Council to hire consultant for possible airport expansion

Beatriz Costa-Lima • March 8, 2013

The Columbia Chamber of Commerce submitted a report to City Council on Monday night detailing a project to improve Columbia Regional Airport. The Chamber of Commerce found that only 8 percent of the 440,000...

Capitol Wrap-Up: Week of March 4

Bell Johnson • March 8, 2013

####Senators push for measures to be put on 2013 schedule before deadline Five-hundred Senate bills were filed for the 2013 legislation session before the Feb. 28 deadline. Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St....

RHA debating funding reallocation amendment

Paul Albani-Burgio • March 8, 2013

The Residence Halls Association Congress will meet Monday to debate and vote on a proposed amendment to the RHA bylaws. According to the text of Amendment 002, its purpose is to organize the hall fines...

Poll finds most Missourians favor Medicaid expansion

Claire Boston • March 8, 2013

A new poll found that the majority of Missourians favor Medicaid expansion, a proposal Republicans in the state House of Representatives recently rejected. After hearing an equal set of pros and cons...

Readership Program expands to include New York Times online

Jill Deutsch • March 8, 2013

MU students no longer need to go to a newspaper stand for access to the New York Times. Now, they only need a laptop. By going to [nytimes.com/passes](https://myaccount.nytimes.com/verification/edupass),...

Sanders hearing to be continued April 12

Katherine Knott • March 8, 2013

On Thursday afternoon, former Columbia police officer Robert Sanders appeared for a brief hearing at the Boone County Courthouse. Sanders is charged with third-degree assault and faces up to a year in...

Shots fired on Bethany Drive

Lakshna Mehta • March 8, 2013

The people responsible for shooting into a Bethany Drive residence at 1 a.m. Wednesday are still at large. The Boone County Sheriff's Department received several phone calls from neighbors who reported...

Police Blotter

Tess Catlett • March 8, 2013

####Man runs red light, arrested on DWI charge Police arrested Marcus Williams, 23, at College Avenue and Walnut Street early Monday morning. Williams was pulled over after running a red light, MU Police...

Dancers team up with Miracle Children in support of Mizzou Dance Marathon

Alyssa Nielsen • March 8, 2013

Dance Marathon began in 1991 at Indiana University after the death of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager who was HIV-positive. Since then, the event has grown into a nationwide movement in which the events...

House bill could move sex offenders out of regular polling places

Bell Johnson • March 8, 2013

If passed, House Bill 587 would designate all county clerk’s offices as the polling places for registered sex offenders in the state of Missouri. If any person were unable to make it to their designated...

MSA discusses changing at-large senator election process

Jill Deutsch • March 8, 2013

Differing views about the current at-large senator election process were discussed at the Missouri Students Association committee meetings Tuesday night. Currently, a full Senate can hold 70 senators,...

Historic Greek houses faced with renovation or demolition

Katherine Fallon • March 8, 2013

The Historic Preservation Commission debated the destruction of the Delta Delta Delta Annex on Tuesday in City Hall. The sorority's annex, where many sisters reside, is located in Greektown at 500 Burnam...