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Challenging senior year MegAnn Schlader, right, signs a friend’s yearbook at her desk as classmates Jenny Keener, left, and Alex Wegener laugh before the start of a physics class yesterday at Hickman High School.   Read the Article

Local News Stories
Jurors acquit on sex counts
By SARA AGNEW of the Tribune’s staff
FULTON - A Callaway County jury acquitted a former Fulton police officer last night of all sex-related charges stemming from accusations by his teenage daughter but found him guilty of tampering with physical evidence.

Challenging senior year
By JANESE HEAVIN of the Tribune’s staff
Cancer might have met its match when it tried to rob MegAnn Schlader of her senior year.

Foreign students seek to lose accents in MU program
By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER 
of The Associated Press 
Myongchee Choi came to the University of Missouri-Columbia ready to conquer the campus.

Purple martins roughed up by weather
By GREG MILLER of the Tribune’s staff
An unseasonably cool and blustery spring is having a profound effect on purple martin colonies in portions of Missouri.

New Guard unit has support role
By GREG MILLER of the Tribune’s staff
CENTERTOWN - Most towns with about 300 people don’t have a National Guard office inside city limits.

Smithton girl’s essay lauded on Law Day
A Smithton Middle School seventh-grader’s essay on the separation of governmental branches won first place in a statewide Law Day contest.

Smoke alarm alerts woman to blaze
Flammable material placed too close to an untended stove ignited a house fire yesterday afternoon at 2001 Keystone Drive in Columbia, officials say.

Mud fest
Rock Bridge High School biology and anatomy teacher Melissa Gildehaus wields a bullhorn to direct participants in the annual Rock Bridge Mud Volleyball Tournament yesterday west of the school.

In Spiritual Life
Truth, fiction or both?
By SETH ASHLEY of the Tribune’s staff
Everyone loves a conspiracy theory, and Dan Brown’s mega-selling novel about a shakeup in Christian history has proved to be no exception. The opening weekend of the film version of "The Da Vinci Code" is upon us, and controversy continues to rage concerning Brown’s story.