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updated: Sun Jul 06, 2008 07:30 pm

Boone County News

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10 hrs ago | Columbia Daily Tribune

Bomb unit plan omits fire district

Four local public safety agencies are planning to establish the Mid-Missouri Bomb Squad to fill the void left in April when the Boone County Fire Protection District's bomb squad lost its FBI certification.

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Related Topix: Columbia, MO, Columbia Metro

15 hrs ago | The Missourian

Man found guilty of kidnapping, assaulting former girlfriend

' At the end of a long day of grueling cross-examination Wednesday, a woman who was beaten and kidnapped by her boyfriend last fall cried quietly as a jury found him guilty after almost three hours of ...

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Related Topix: Columbia, MO, Columbia Metro, McBaine, MO

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

Law enforcement on alert for excessive noise

Many Americans are probably excited that the Fourth of July falls on a Friday this year, allowing for a three-day weekend.

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Related Topix: Columbia, MO, Columbia Metro

Thu Jul 03, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

Fear of urban sprawl downs plan for rezoning

All Karen Sapp wanted was to carve out a few 5-acre tracts so her three sons could build houses on her 108 acres southeast of Columbia.

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Related Topix: Columbia Metro, Columbia, MO, Ashland, MO, Agriculture, Science

Wed Jul 02, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

Farm house destroyed in fire near Sturgeon

A fire last night that destroyed an apparently unoccupied farmhouse at 21500 Ponderosa Road just west of Sturgeon was visible to motorists on Highway 63, more than a mile away.

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Related Topix: Sturgeon, MO, Clark, MO

Tue Jul 01, 2008

KOMU-TV Columbia

Sobriety Checkpoint Makes Arrests

The Boone County Sheriff's Department conducted a sobriety checkpoint on Route B and Hwy 124 arresting ten people and issuing three summons.

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Related Topix: Hallsville, MO, Columbia, MO, Columbia Metro, Drugs

Mon Jun 30, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

Hallsville checkpoint nets one DWI arrest

A sobriety checkpoint by law enforcement officials overnight Friday resulted in one arrest on suspicion of driving while intoxicated among nearly 200 vehicles stopped in Hallsville.

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Related Topix: Hallsville, MO, Columbia Metro, Columbia, MO

Sat Jun 28, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

Accused father is arrested

The father accused of causing his toddler son's death earlier this week in Columbia was arrested last night in East St.

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Thu Jun 26, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

Blunt signs bill repealing village law

Missouri property owners seeking to create their own village will have to do it in the next two months.

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Related Topix: Camden County, MO, Sturgeon, MO, Marble Hill, MO

Tue Jun 24, 2008

Columbia Missourian

Festival of the Arts to feature 'Dancing Wheels' and 'I am Kenny J'

' An all-dance day will be new to Columbia's Festival of the Arts in September. In its 17th year, the festival will be held on Boone County's Courthouse Square at the north end of Eighth Street and surrounding ...

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Related Topix: Columbia, MO, Columbia Metro, Arts, Dance, Ballet

Sun Jun 22, 2008

Columbia Missourian

Fire District gives up its bomb squad

' The Boone County Fire Protection District has given up its bomb squad. In a split decision Wednesday night, the board voted not to attempt the process of ending the FBI's suspension, which began April 9 ...

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Related Topix: Columbia, MO, Columbia Metro

Fri Jun 20, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

Mid-Missouri flooding set to stay the weekend

The Missouri River in parts of Boone County is expected to stay above flood stage at least through the weekend.

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Related Topix: Boonville, MO, Jefferson City, MO, Weather, Rocheport, MO

Thu Jun 19, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

State legislator Pauley recalled as honest, quiet

Jim Pauley, a longtime state legislator and community fixture in Ashland, died this morning.

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Related Topix: Jefferson City, MO, Ashland, MO

Tue Jun 17, 2008

Columbia Missourian

Columbia picks - The Whistling Season' for One Read

' The people of Columbia have spoken. Ivan Doig's novel "The Whistling Season" has been selected for the 2008 One Read program, beating Oliver Relin's nonfiction work "Three Cups of Tea" by a vote of 299 to ...

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Related Topix: Callaway County, MO, Columbia, MO, Columbia Metro

Sat Jun 14, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

Vandals tear at a small town

Published Thursday, June 12, 2008 Clark is burning. T.J. Greaney photo Randy Neeson is pictured in late May standing next to a monument to Gen.

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Related Topix: Sturgeon, MO, Randolph County, MO, Clark, MO

Thu Jun 12, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

Five are charged in slaying; Police say suspects plotted robbery.

Published Thursday, June 12, 2008 Police arrested three suspects yesterday and continued seeking two others in the shooting death early Tuesday of a man in his southeast Columbia duplex.

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Related Topix: Ashland, MO, Columbia Metro, Columbia, MO, Washington, MO

Columbia Daily Tribune

Water creeps over some county roads

As communities along the Missouri River face flooding, water is creeping higher in Boone County and cutting off roads.

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Related Topix: Weather, Boonville, MO

Wed Jun 11, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

High weeds a growing concern; City makes the cut if property owners don't.

Tall weeds such as these last week at Worley Street and Garth Avenue and elsewhere can be a summertime nuisance across Columbia.

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Related Topix: Columbia, MO, Columbia Metro

Tue Jun 10, 2008

Columbia Missourian

Putting the kibosh on tire dumping in Missouri

Parker Naylor, on his property Wednesday, talks about the tires that have been illegally dumped there.

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Related Topix: Jefferson City, MO, West Nile Virus, Health, Columbia Metro, Columbia, MO

Sun Jun 08, 2008

Columbia Daily Tribune

Climate plants a wet one

Missouri is having its wettest December-to-May on record. That's what University of Missouri climatologist Pat Guinan concluded after checking records and monitoring moisture.

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Related Topix: Columbia, MO, Columbia Metro, Kingdom City, MO, Weather

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