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Earnest assembly
Abortion opponents pray yesterday at a rally on the National Mall before
marching to the Supreme Court to mark the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Today, officials said President Barack Obama plans to repeal the U.S. policy that prevented government funding for international groups that offer abortions or abortion information.
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Local News Stories
Murder suspect is returned
By JOE MEYER
of the Tribune’s staff
A woman accused of conspiring with another man to kill her husband in 2004 is in custody at the Boone County Jail after her extradition from Texas.
Local senator lands key committee post
By JANESE HEAVIN
of the Tribune’s staff
Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, will play a key role in the decision about whether customers should help AmerenUE pay for construction work on a second reactor at the Callaway Nuclear Plant.
School board reacts to budget cuts
By JONATHON BRADEN
of the Tribune’s staff
Many of the 74 positions that Columbia Public Schools administrators propose cutting to save money should never have been added in the first place, board member Ines Segert suggested today.
Realtor jumps into council race
By SARA SEMELKA
of the Tribune’s staff
Before he entered the world of real estate, Boone County native Jason
Thornhill, 38, was in retail management with Sam’s Club and was offered a position in Chicago.
Woman charged with murder lived with Texas deputy
By CHRIS PASCHENKO
of The Daily News of Galveston County, Texas
A woman accused of murder in a Boone County homicide lived with a sheriff’s deputy in Dickinson, Texas, before her arrest last month and extradition to face charges in Missouri.
Freeze worries MU faculty
By JENNA YOUNGS
of the Tribune’s staff
University of Missouri Deputy Provost Ken Dean attended the first Faculty Council meeting of the semester to clear up some confusion about the UM System’s hiring freeze and recent announcement to reduce nonpersonnel expenditures in a number of areas.
University alumni must step up, lawmakers say
By JENNA YOUNGS
of the Tribune’s staff
Local legislators told University of Missouri alumni last night that they need to lobby legislators statewide to ensure funding for higher education.
Columbia police nab suspected crack dealer
Police arrested a suspected crack cocaine dealer yesterday after following him and watching an apparent drug deal in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant on Paris Road.
Mexico businessman sentenced in porn case
A Mexico, Mo., businessman has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to transmitting child pornography to an undercover FBI agent in Florida from his business last year.
Motorcycle wreck near MU injures rider
A Columbia man remained in fair condition today at University Hospital after the motorcycle he was riding rear-ended a car on Providence Road yesterday afternoon.
Columbians injured in two-vehicle crash
Two Columbia residents were injured last night in a two-vehicle collision northeast of Columbia.
Autopsy: Fire caused man’s death in shed
An autopsy of the body of the man who died in a fire early Tuesday at a shed where he lived in south Columbia determined he was alive when the fire started, and his death is not considered suspicious, Boone County Deputy Medical Examiner Eddie Adelstein said.
Car nearly hits woman walking dog in park
Police believe a stolen car driving away from the scene of a disturbance in west Columbia yesterday morning drove through Again Street Park and nearly hit a woman walking her dog.
Eight students vie for scholars program
Eight Columbia high school seniors have been named candidates for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, which recognizes the nation’s most distinguished graduating high school seniors.
