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Eric Henley of Holts Summit displays a bone fishhook he found this month near McBaine along the Missouri River that some say dates back at least hundreds of years. Henley’s find is much larger than most American Indian fishhooks that have been recovered.   Read the Article

Local News Stories
Prospector thrives on finds
By JANESE HEAVIN of the Tribune’s staff
A Holts Summit man found a rare fishhook carved from bone in the Missouri River this month, and experts say it could be anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of years old.

Decision favors retirement
By GREG MILLER of the Tribune’s staff
For days, Boone County Circuit Judge Ellen Roper heard the case of Earl Ringo Jr. in the summer of 1999. A disgruntled former Ruby Tuesday employee, Ringo was found guilty of returning to the eatery in the early hours of July 4, 1998, with a childhood friend and killing a restaurant manager and a delivery truck driver.

City plans protection for streams
By MATTHEW LeBLANC of the Tribune’s staff
A long-awaited draft plan from a joint city/county task force would keep developers from building close to Columbia waterways, a move that supporters say could help stop erosion and reduce the effects of storm water on sensitive streams.

In Features
Making news in ’06
By the Tribune’s staff
In a year marked by the comings and goings of some well-known Columbians, Mother Nature proved her staying power with two extraordinary storms in the spring and late fall. A poll of the Tribune news staff placed those combined weather events as the top local story of 2006.

Web site hits lend newspaper insight into readers’ minds
By ANDY WATERS
Want to scare the bejesus out of a seasoned newspaper editor? Show him or her a list of the most-viewed stories on the paper’s Web site.

In Sports
One last look at 2006
Story by Tribune sports editor JOE WALLJASPER
What could possibly go wrong when a radio color commentator is sent to remind a struggling coach that it might be the right time to resign? As it turned out, plenty.