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Shepard Elementary first-grader Brice Kelley gets help on a cut-and-paste spelling exercise yesterday from Janet Tilley, assistant language arts coordinator for Columbia Public Schools.
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Local News Stories
Rebel flag shakes up assembly
By ANNIE NELSON
of the Tribune’s staff
Two Hickman High School students disrupted a multicultural assembly yesterday in the school’s auditorium by unfurling a Confederate flag from the balcony.
Spelling made ‘easy peasy’
By ANNIE NELSON
of the Tribune’s staff
The wall outside Karen Krueger’s first-grade classroom at Shepard Boulevard Elementary School is decorated with cutout paper clouds and a poster of Martin Luther King Jr.
From here to homeownership
By PAMELA A MULUMBY
of the Tribune’s staff
Columbia resident Tonia Tucker, a divorced mother of two, has lived in a public housing for nearly 10 years but has never given up on her dream of one day owning a home.
Chamber to help fund ‘angel’ investor network
By TERRY GANEY
of the Tribune’s staff
The Columbia Chamber of Commerce is providing $10,000 in startup funds to help develop a network of investors willing to provide seed capital for new business enterprises.
Fulton landlord
no longer faces criminal charges
By SARA AGNEW
of the Tribune’s staff
Charges of a fraudulent insurance act and forgery have been dropped against a Fulton landlord whose tenant was found murdered last year in her home.
Drug search warrants lead to several arrests
Two Columbia men remained in the Boone County Jail today on bonds of $200,000 each after detectives with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department found weapons and drugs in their homes.
Photo finish
A group of University of Missouri-Columbia elementary education students have their picture taken with Columbia
firefighters Brian Wattenbarger and Eric Pooler yesterday along Interstate 70 after an engine fire delayed their trip home.
Fire damage
Thirty volunteer firefighters with the Boone County Fire Protection District responded to an apartment fire shortly after 8 p.m.
yesterday in North Hampton Village off Oakland Church Road.
