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Mizzou Study Says Happily Married People are Healthier, or Another Reason to Hate V-Day

In case you need another reason to hate Valentine's Day, the University of Missouri has some exciting news for you. Christine Proulx, an assistant professor in the department of human development and family studies, has discovered that happily married old people are healthier than divorced or widowe ... More >>

The Final Chapter in the University of Missouri Press Saga

Remember how the University of Missouri Press decided to "modernize" itself last spring by laying off the entire staff and replacing it with a group of grad students led by an English professor? Well, to hell with that. Maybe the Press wasn't so broken after all. Well, OK, maybe the threats of lega ... More >>

Mizzou J-School Leader's Testimony Could Hurt Apple in Huge Lawsuit Against Samsung

In what Wired magazine is calling "the patent case of the century," Apple is suing Samsung for "slavishly" copying Apple's tech and design as seen in -- among other things -- the iPad. Apple believes Samsung is trampling on its patent rights. The local-ish connection is this:   Earlier this wee ... More >>

Benjamin Elliot Pleads Guilty to Tagging Mizzou Dorm with Racist Graffiti

One-time University of Missouri student Benjamin Elliot pleaded guilty to spray painting a racist slur on a Mizzou dorm last February. For admitting he tagged Hatch Hall with the "n-word," Elliot must pay court costs, complete 100 hours of community service and pay restitution to the university.

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Mizzou's Maneater Steps on Its Dick with Misogynistic April Fool's Issue

The Maneater, the student-run newspaper of the University of Missouri-Columbia, puts together an April Fool's Day issue every year that attempts to skewer the pompous and poke fun at the too-serious people and institutions on campus. This year's issue, titled "The Carpeteater," has been roundly deno ... More >>

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Senator Kevin Engler Introduces Bill About Bedbug Reporting

​Citing both an increase in the number of infestation reports in Missouri communities and a special request from state health officials, State Senator Kevin Engler (R-Farmington) introduced legislation yesterday that sets new standards for tenants and landlords when it comes to reporting bedbugs.

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Missouri Trapper Nets Mountain Lion; Animal Released Into Wild

​Thought: University of Missouri should really change its mascot from the tigers to the mountain lions. In the past 14 months there have been 17 confirmed sightings of the big cats in Missouri, with this week's run-in with a mountain lion the most convincing confirmation yet. It happened Wednesday ... More >>

Should Latinos Be Encouraged to Speak Spanish in College?

​Earlier this week, a major study published in the Harvard Educational Review showed that children of undocumented immigrants have a more difficult time with social development and are at risk for lower educational performance when compared to kids of U.S. citizens. While that news might be ... More >>

Harris-Stowe, Fontbonne Notch Worst Student Loan Default Rates Locally

A bad economy has sent many college grads into default on their student loans.​Nationally, the rate of former college students defaulting on their federal student loans shot up this year -- with 8.8 percent of borrowers now in default as opposed to just 7 percent last year, according to the U.S. D ... More >>

America's Got Talent Winner Runs for Missouri Office: Eight Musicians He Should Learn From

Neal Boyd's American dream includes serving in Missouri House of Representatives.​Neal E. Boyd of Sikeston has already won lots of American votes. Enough to win the 2008 season of America's Got Talent, when he wowed audiences with his pop opera skills. Before finding reality-show fame, Boyd ... More >>

"It Was A Complete, Complete Bust." What Happened At The Missouri Muzic Festival?

An early poster for the Missouri Muzic Festival. Nicki Minaj was removed from the lineup months ago.​On Saturday afternoon, the organizers and operations management of the Missouri Muzic festival stood watching a weather forecast for Sunday predicting more storms. It was raining hard and the w ... More >>

Tough Going at the Missouri State Fair

​Man! First Lynryd Skynyrd canceled their show last week for health reasons, and now the power's out at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia.Last night, a storm knocked over trees, power lines, tents and concession stands at the fairgrounds. The grounds are closed to the public this morning, but far ... More >>

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Hitler Reacts to Mizzou's Hiring of Frank Haith

It was inevitable. Someone had to make a video of Hitler reacting to University of Missouri's controversial hiring of Frank Haith.Fair warning: The clip below includes some offensive characterizations. Then again, what would you expect from Hitler!? And, no, we didn't make this video. Just passing i ... More >>

Good Mood = Bad Memory, Mizzou Study Says

Image viaHaha you'll never remember this, suckers!!​Next time you're annoyed/jealous at how chipper someone is, here's some silent revenge: at least at that moment, their "working memory" isn't as good as yours. According to a study done by doctoral student Elizabeth Martin at the University of Mi ... More >>

Missouri Masturbation Beat: Teen Has Fetish For Locker Room Underwear

​Last week, Daily RFT told you about the search for a serial masturbator on the loose at the University of Missouri. Now comes this shocking masturbation tale from Platte County in far western Missouri. That's where John Gallagher, 19, was arrested last week on charges of breaking into his former ... More >>

Benjamin Elliot: University of Missouri Student Arrested for Racist Graffiti

Benjamin Elliot: And here we thought white-man dreads were all about peace, love and understanding.​Police at the University of Missouri arrested an 18-year-old student Saturday night, on suspicion that the teen spray painted racist graffiti -- including the "n-word" -- on a campus statute. Benjam ... More >>

Mizzou Scientists Watch Memories Get Made

image viaScans of the brain at work during the Semantic Fluency Test in which research subjects were asked to think of words from a specific category, like "food" or "animals".​In order to make more money, people who make digital cameras and printer paper will tell you that their products are ... More >>

Mizzou Students In Running to Cover Oscars for MTV, And They Need Your Vote!

mtvU.comErica Coghill: C'mon people, send this future star to the Oscars. ​Daily RFT received a request -- okay, a plea -- yesterday from University of Missouri undergraduate Erica Coghill asking that we pass on the news that she and three other Mizzou students are finalists in MTV's Oscars Corres ... More >>

Grape Scott! Mizzou Scientists Engineering Fungus-Free Wine Grapes

​Missouri has long been one of the world's leading exporters of beer. But now, researchers at the University of Missouri say that vino could be the state's next big alcoholic gift to mankind.The state grape of Missouri -- the Norton variety -- is known for its resistance to powdery mildew, a funga ... More >>

The Best Thanksgiving Convenience Foods, Onion-Cooking Methods, and Booze

Did you wait until the last minute to start Thanksgiving prep? Or are you just lazy? Slashfood has recommendations for the best frozen pumpkin and apple pies and the best instant stuffing.If you're making the meal by hand, our sister paper, the Houston Press, tests methods to prevent onion tears. No ... More >>

Ancient Amazonian Women Got Around, Science Says

Okay, not exactly, but you get the idea​Women in ancient societies in lowland South America would probably get some nasty shaming in today's society for their sexual practices -- but their habit of multiple sex partners was considered a boon to their children. A preponderance of those societies, n ... More >>

[UPDATED] Mid-Missouri Reeling From Rash of Murders; Paranoia Strikes MU Campus

Maylee remains on the loose and could be traveling with a high-powered rifle.​Update: Joshua William Maylee was arrested yesterday afternoon without incident in Cooper County, west of Columbia. He was charged today with murder. Original story posted Thursday morning...It's a bit calmer today in mi ... More >>

State Senator to University of Missouri: Let My People Go

Photo: Dave GeetingHundreds of fans rushed onto Faurot Field. Three percent of 'em ended up in cuffs.​State Senator Kurt Schaefer (R - Columbia) is calling on the University of Missouri to drop the trespassing charges it has filed against 30 fans who stormed Faurot Field following Mizzou's victory ... More >>

The Health Benefits of Celebrity Journalism

image viaThere's so much we can learn from Us Weekly!​Fabulous news, celebrity magazine addicts: All those hours you've spent lolling around on the couch with bags of Chee-tohs and the latest copies of Us Weekly, In Touch and Life & Style aren't totally bad for you after all! It turns out that ... More >>

Just How Tall Were the Dinosaurs?

Everybody knows the dinosaurs were super-tall, but a University of Missouri anatomy professor has just proven everybody wrong. The dinosaurs weren't just super-tall. They were super-duper tall. The extra height, Casey Holliday and his team of researchers discovered, came from cartilage between the d ... More >>

U.S. News College Rankings Put Wash. U. at Lucky 13

Wikimedia Commons​Hooray! This year's U.S. News and World Report college rankings are out! This is a chance for all college students, both current and former, to look through the rankings and claim bragging rights for their schools. These bragging rights are only good, of course, until college ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Wins Lawsuit vs. Missouri; Free to Protest Funerals Unrestricted

Rev. Phelps: Open for business in Missouri.​Two Missouri laws aimed specifically at controversial Rev. Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church were struck down yesterday in federal court in Jefferson City. State legislators passed the laws back in 2006. One prohibited protests near a church or ... More >>

R.I.P. James J. Kilpatrick, Conservative Lion, Mizzou Grad, Defender of Segregation

James J. Kilpatrick​Our nation's major papers are all noting the passing of 89-year-old James J. Kilpatrick, a conservative T.V. and print commentator who also happened to have a degree from Missouri School of Journalism. He was well-known for providing an intellectual defense of segregation after ... More >>

John McCain: University of Missouri Shouldn't Get Federal Stimulus Money To Freeze Rat Sperm

Image viaMizzou scientists splurged taxpayer dollars on rat sperm.​During the 2008 presidential election, John McCain simply could not shut up about earmarks. Even though the wasteful "pork" spending makes up just a tiny fraction of the federal budget, the aging senator from Arizona seemed to thin ... More >>

University of Missouri Makes Two of ESPN's Top 50 Football Heartbreakers -- and It Ain't Over Yet

​In the words of the immortal Hank Williams Jr.: "Are your ready for some football!?" We here at Daily RFT are, especially college football which starts in just one month's time. Speaking of which, ESPN.com is running a fun little feature called House of Pain recalling the  50 "most painful o ... More >>

Big Ten Quashes Rumors of Adding Mizzou, and That's Too Bad

So the commissioner of the Big Ten came out yesterday to deny the rumors -- started this week by a Kansas City radio station -- that it plans to add University of Missouri (or University of Nebraska) to its conference. Whatever. That went away when the Big 8 became the Big 12.​Commissioner Jim Del ... More >>

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Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Mizzou Students Charged with Littering (Not Hate Crimes) for Leaving Cotton Balls at Black Culture Center

Prosecutors thought it would be difficult to convince a jury that Sean Fitzgerald and Zachary Tucker intended to commit a hate crime during a night of drunken debauchery.​The two University of Missouri undergraduates arrested back in March for dumping cotton balls on the school's Gaines/Oldham Bla ... More >>

RFT Founder Ray Hartmann to Speak at Missouri NORML Conference on Saturday

Ray Hartmann at the University of Missouri, his alma mater​If you see smoke wafting out of the Randall Building at 3022A Cherokee Street on Saturday don't call the fire department. It's probably harmless.The Missouri chapter of NORML -- the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law -- ... More >>

Never-Married Women in Their 30s Are Total Losers, Mizzou Study Finds

Image sourceBehold: the future of every single woman. (Because we couldn't find a picture of a dead woman in an apartment being eaten by dogs.)​It's tough being a never-married woman in your 30s. Well-meaning older people are always asking you when you're going to settle down. Self-help books ... More >>

Mizzou Trips into Big Dance, Illinois Headed to NIT

​Despite an ugly loss last week in the first round of the Big 12 Championship, University of Missouri has earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Tigers are a No. 10 seed in the eastern bracket and play the Tigers (of Clemson, No. 7 seed) at 1:45 p.m. on Friday in Buffalo. Win that game and Mizzo ... More >>

Mizzou Cop Wins "Sexiest Dad Alive" in People Magazine's Online Poll

people.com/people/package/bestof2009​In one of the most critical elections in recent history, a plurality of the two million netizens casting a ballot in People's "Best of 2009" online poll chose Dustin Moyer of Ashland, Missouri as the "Sexiest Dad Alive." Moyer, 26, was competing in the "Real Pe ... More >>

Dept. of D'oh! Women Basketball Players Attack Male Cheerleader

Hanneman​As if being a male cheerleader isn't humiliating enough...Police in Columbia, Missouri, say two female basketball players at the University of Missouri broke a male cheerleader's nose and left him with a black eye following an incident early Friday morning. Johnson​According to the Colu ... More >>

College Football Fans Make Asses of Themselves on Internet to Win Game Tickets

There are few easier ways to make an ass of yourself in public than by being a college football fan. The face-painting, the (usually off-key) singing, the shouting, the chanting, the marshmallow-throwing, the growling, the grunting, the hooting, the horns-hooking. The only redeeming factor is that w ... More >>

St. Louis Film Streetballers Leaves L.A., Heads for K.C.

Streetballers rolling to Kansas City.​Received a note last week from the guys behind Streetballers, the independent film shot in St. Louis that's won an armful of awards and accolades at film festivals across the country. The movie had its Los Angeles debut last month at Hollywood's historic ... More >>

St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 9.12-9.18

Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.Cupcake Project: Stefani returned with Rosh Hashana apple cider donuts with honey glaze, and monkey bread cupcakes served with a side of very cute new baby.Sugar, Spice and More Things Nice: Rachel interviewed dietitian and diabetes educator M ... More >>

Missouri Mom Wins Title of Mrs. America

Andrea Roberston​Ain't no Miss (or missin') in Mrs. Missouri -- Andrea Robertson.The O'Fallon mother of two beat out 50 contestants last week to be named Mrs. America 2010 in the annual gala to determine the nation's prettiest married lady. Robertson, who grew up in St. Charles and graduated from ... More >>

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