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Prospective winemakers can learn the tools of the trade at an upcoming University of Missouri workshop.

State officials are taking a new approach bugs to fight a noxious weed in southwest Missouri.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed a former state senator from St. Louis and a St.

Greene County prosecutors agreed Monday not to go to trial against a former volunteer firefighter whose car collided with a sheriff's deputy's patrol car, killing the deputy.

Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed a former state lawmaker and a newspaper publisher to the University of Missouri Board of Curators.

State officials are taking a new approach to fight a noxious weed in southwest Missouri.

Researchers at the University of Missouri developed a method to avoid stem cell controversy and still work toward potentially life-saving cures.

An American journalist's perspective: the media in the region have loyalties, accept financial support, and get around truth-telling. MARK Mulcahy, an American journalist and journalism professor, explored media ethics in Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova for his MA thesis, which he wrote as a graduate student of journalism at the University of ...

Conflict-of-interest concerns have led to the reorganization of a lab at the University of Missouri.

Humor, it turns out, can be a pretty serious business. Unless you are a professional comedian, work is not a comedy club.

Is gardening a new passion? Want to home can, but don't know how? Fearful of a pressure canner or in need pf a refresher on home canning techniques? When harvest time arrives for summer produce, local gardeners want to be ready to preserve the extras the family doesn't eat right away.

The University of Missouri-Columbia reports a spike in the number of students requesting financial aid for the upcoming school year.

As childhood obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends.

A report by the Missouri Department of Economic Development says employers are working hard to fill jobs in health care and social assistance.

When students are underachieving, school policymakers often examine class size, curriculum and funding, but University of Missouri researchers suggest establishing relationships may be a powerful and less expensive way to improve students' success.

While officials say the deal is a win-win, affected employees express concerns. The Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center, which has provided more than 40 years of state-run mental health care, is now closed, but it will re-open Wednesday as the University of Missouri's first psychiatric hospital, called the Missouri Psychiatric Center.

A University of Missouri plant researcher is turning to computer science to help unravel the inner workings of a common soybean parasite.

Posted on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 9:52 p.m. Arthur Bodamer, 83, traveled off the right side of the road and overturned after he struck a tree and overturned.

Virginia creeper is one of the plants Japanese beetles enjoy eating voraciously.

Columbia, MO - infoZine - If the growing presence of computer 'geeks' on television crime shows is any indicator, computers are increasingly becoming essential tools for detecting and combating skullduggery.