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Riley Strain: A timeline of events

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: The original version of this story had the incorrect time for when the 911 call was made. It has been corrected. Nashville’s Urban Search And Rescue Team on Thursday continued to search along the riverbank for 22-year-old University Of Missouri student Riley Strain. In a press conference this afternoon, Metro Nashville police said there

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University of Missouri experiences the Flutie effect with influx in freshman applications

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: “Flutie” was spelled incorrectly. It has since been changed to reflect the effect named after Doug Flutie. The University of Missouri is catching the eye of many students, having received over 23 thousand applications for the upcoming freshman class, as disclosed at the latest Board of Curators meeting. MU spokesperson

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Firm hired for MU’s AD search employs wife of men’s basketball coach; questions raised over potential conflict of interest

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri has started a national search for a new athletic director. MU announced on Tuesday that it had put together a search committee of 11 people and hired  TurnkeyZRG, a firm specializing in leadership recruitment in college athletics, to assist with the search. TurnkeyZRG has a long list of

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MU Office of Institutional Equity sees fewer reports than previous year; sexual assault claims below ‘historical average’

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri Office of Institutional Equity saw a drop in reports made to the office in the 2022-23 school year from the previous year. The university had 919 reports made during the 2022-23 school year, which is down by 141 reports from 2021-22, which had 1,060 reports made. This year’s

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One family drops from MU Health Care lawsuit involving gender-affirming care; Choi, Barohn named as defendants

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One family is dropping out of a federal lawsuit filed against MU Health Care in a case surrounding gender-affirming care. MU Health Care said in August that it would stop prescribing or administering puberty-delaying drugs or hormone replacement therapy to transgender minors. A pair of Boone County families sued MU Health in November, claiming MU Health was

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