Posted 11:59 PM 7/25/2011 by Sarah Hill

COLUMBIA - The Discovery Science Channel has planned a new show this fall on "anvil" shooting, featuring the talents of three Columbia dynamos.

Anvils are heavy chunks of iron or steel on which blacksmiths pound their metal into shape. This centuries old tradition is making a comeback. Not (More)

Posted 11:10 PM 6/20/2011 by Sarah Hill

FORT LEONARD WOOD - When Alyssa Marie Rutherford was born in 2009, she weighed just one pound and had Down Syndrome. She passed away just 11 days after her birth.

After her daughter's passing, Danielle Rutherford found comfort in listening to one song over and over: "Hold my Heart" by (More)

Posted 10:53 PM 6/13/2011 by Sarah Hill

WELLSVILLE - The middle of a hayfield is the last place you'd expect to find a work of art. But these Picassos of the pasture have a point. Each bale is a blank canvas. It's grass graffiti that turned hay bales into a Hellcat.

"You wouldn't think you could paint a hay bale and make it look (More)

Posted 10:18 PM 6/6/2011 by Sarah Hill

COLUMBIA - The date is set for this year's 'Decorate a Bra' contest to benefit the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center and its breast cancer patients. The date is October 5th at the Tiger Hotel. Before Chance Seales left for Florida, he helped me make our own contribution to the contest.

The bra (More)

Posted 10:51 PM 5/23/2011 by Sarah Hill

WARRENTON - The women of the Shirley Club are connected by seven letters, and not the ones on their fortune cookies.

"Now is the time to tell loved ones at a distance. Share your news. What's your news? That I met with the Shirleys today. What could be better?" Shirley Struttman, Shirley (More)

Posted 11:42 PM 5/16/2011 by Sarah Hill

SUNRISE BEACH -Ted Koviak fought in nine different invasions. He liberated POW's from the Bataan death march. He was away from his family for three years. He described the pain of missing birthdays and once home, being told he would have to pay for his medals.

"In fact they told us if we (More)

Posted 9:28 PM 5/9/2011 by Sarah Hill

FULTON - At Fulton's Presbyterian Manor, Anna Price is an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor. Most of the people who hug her have no idea the years she endured without an embrace.

"I hate it that my mother went through that. It just wasn't fair," Ellen Covington, Price's daughter, said.

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Posted 6:12 PM 5/2/2011 by Sarah Hill

COLUMBIA - An awards ceremony will recognize students who have "achieved through adversity" in hopes of closing Columbia's minority achievement gap. The Achievement Through Adversity Awards Dinner is scheduled for June 7th. Marquette Wallace and Patrika Brown are two young women who graduated (More)

Posted 4:21 PM 4/18/2011 by Sarah Hill

COLIMBIA - A 10 year old won a statewide competition in his sleep. Well, actually.... "sleeping" was just one of the tricks that snared Luke Sherman of Columbia the win in the statewide Mo Yo Competition. Sherman won the junior axle division.The patrons at the Columbia Hot Box Cookies (More)

Posted 6:10 PM 4/4/2011 by Sarah Hill

COLUMBIA - Central Missouri Honor Flight #14 will arrive back in Columbia about 9:45 pm Tuesday.  About 110 passengers are scheduled to take the trip to Washington, DC to see their memorial.  They leave about 3:00 am Tuesday and arrive back in Columbia about 9:45 pm Tuesday at (More)

Posted 6:57 PM 3/21/2011 by Sarah Hill

The condition is called Microcephaly (micro-sef-uh-lee), and according to the Foundation for Children with Microcephaly, it affects up to two and a half percent of the world's population. Microcephaly is a neurological disorder where the head circumference is less than it should be. 19 (More)

Posted 4:42 PM 3/17/2011 by Sarah Hill

The Honor Flight season is ready to take off on April 5th. The program that KOMU viewers helped get off the ground takes aging veterans to see their memorial at no cost to them. Of the veterans who've flown on Central Missouri Honor Flights....about 50 have already passed away. Most (More)