Ken Day of Montgomery City examines a trophy deer mount during the Missouri Deer Classic at the Boone County Fairgrounds.
Kansas State cheerleaders Michael Kearns, right, and Kayle Vigil joke around before the Missouri-Kansas State basketball game in Manhattan, Kan.
Special Olympics athlete Kendall Scheidt, 24, celebrates after entering frigid water for the third annual Polar Plunge fundraiser for Special Olympics Missouri at Stephens Lake Park.
Chamber member Melody Parry, center, and others flood out of a packed room into the hallway while listening to the Columbia mayoral candidate forum at the Thomas G. Walton building.
Missouri’s Allie Heizelman’s dismounts from the uneven bars during her routine while competing in the Beauty and The Beast event at the Hearnes Center.
A crowd surrounds Gov. Jay Nixon as he announces an agreement with Union Pacific that will allow the preservation of the historic Katy railroad bridge in Boonville during a press conference at the Katy trail depot in Boonville.
Jarrett Buescher, 8, left, throws play punches at Braden Kelly, 12, during the Sturgeon high school basketball team’s practice at the Sturgeon Middle School gym. Jarrett is head coach Greg Buescher’s son and Braden is the team manager and brother of team standout Garrett Kelly.
Columbia SantaCon participant Jason Gyorog, right, smokes a cigarette with Kara Carr outside the VIP Room.
Sister Rose Ashour, left, and Sister Barbara Bock participate in noon prayers Saturday in the chapel at Our Lady of Peace Monastery at 3710 W. Broadway. Citing a decline of interest in the Catholic order, the Benedictine Sisters will close the facility that opened in 1995.
Michael Winner, center, leads a group of costumed friends into a mud pit during the XCX Extreme Cross Country event at the Midway Sandbar in Columbia, Mo. “Spartans, prepare for mud!” Winner shouted at former classmates from St. Mary’s High School in Independence in the four-mile race that featured other obstacles such as a chainsaw-wielding [...]
A pedestrian walks across the parking lot at the new Hy-Vee grocery store off Nifong Boulevard and Providence Road.
Jeff Thompson, 33, performs as the character Atheena Vocé as part of the Soco Club’s Divas by Design drag show on Thursday night. Every other Saturday, Jeff, as Atheena, hosts the Babes in Boyland drag show as well.
Malaki Doubet, 6, of Columbia, crawls across a row of pumpkins at Hackman’s Farm Fresh Produce at the Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. member Justus Roberts II steps with other fraternity brothers during the Sprite Step Off at the Hearnes Center.
