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Campaign confrontation
Mizzou College Republicans members Wesley Nevans, left, and Eric Hobbs, center, talk about political issues yesterday with peace protester Jeff
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Local News Stories
Schools respond to fights
By JANESE HEAVIN of the Tribune’s staff
Students who fight in public
schools will automatically be kicked out of school for 10 days, and those who
push or hit an adult who tries to intervene could be suspended for up to a year.
Leaders consider a curfew
By JODIE JACKSON JR.
of the Tribune’s staff
A curfew for juveniles and a school uniform pilot program are parts of an initiative being discussed as a way to reduce juvenile crime in Columbia. The initiative also calls for fines or even jail time for parents whose children routinely skip school.
MU gears up for Obama visit
By T.J. GREANEY of the Tribune’s staff
The University of Missouri is expecting big, excited crowds at tonight’s
speech by Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Panel picks school name with history
By JANESE HEAVIN
of the Tribune’s staff
Columbia’s next elementary school will honor the memory of the first and only woman to serve as superintendent of Boone County’s rural school system.
Family protests police chase into home
By JOE MEYER
of the Tribune’s staff
A family residing in a central Columbia home is upset that police officers entered their home Monday afternoon in pursuit of suspects in a shooting. Marlon L. Jordan, 45, and family members are upset that officers did not explain at the time why they entered the home at 11 E. Ash St.
Forsees’ gift of $1 million to boost UM
By JENNA YOUNGS
of the Tribune’s staff
University of Missouri System President Gary Forsee and his wife, Sherry, donated $1 million to the university to install Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing rooms on each of the system’s four campuses.
Insider faces overseas officer
By JANESE HEAVIN
of the Tribune’s staff
In a corner of her small campaign office on Locust Street is a poster-size list of some 133 women who have donated at least $100 to Mary Still’s campaign.
Robb, Kelly find accord in MU debate
By JENNA YOUNGS
of the Tribune’s staff
Ed Robb and Chris Kelly agree that University of Missouri officials and supporters need to do more to convince state legislators the university is worthy of more state funding.
Students get taste of politics
By JANESE HEAVIN
of the Tribune’s staff
Standing on a podium addressing his fellow Missourians, Levi Hanks promised to restore Medicaid coverage, support public education and represent the interests of the district.
Firing gun at home earns prison term
By the Tribune’s staff
A teenage girl was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday afternoon after admitting she fired a handgun at a central Columbia home last year in a dispute with her mother.
Doorbell ringer is arrested in burglary
Police arrested a Columbia man yesterday morning after he allegedly rang the doorbell on several houses before breaking into a woman’s home in north Columbia.
Biofuel expert speaks
to Pachyderm Club
Biofuel expert Robert Brown will be the guest speaker at a lunch-hour meeting tomorrow hosted by the Columbia Pachyderm Club.
Two-vehicle wreck
injures two men
Two Columbia men were injured yesterday afternoon in a two-vehicle collision in Howard County.
