Derek LeClerc, 17, of Boy Scout Troop 701, places flags in front of businesses in downtown Columbia for Flag Day 2012.
John Williamson releases 800 gallons of water at the base of the 350-year-old champion bur oak on his family’s land at McBaine during a regional drought in August 2012.
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama speaks to attendees at a town hall meeting May 13, 2008, at Thorngate Ltd. in Cape Girardeau.
A firefighter with the East County Fire Protection District hoses the car port of the home at 4295 State Highway 177 north of Cape Girardeau in November 2007.
Pre-Kindergarten students climb the Franklin Elementary School jungle gym during summer school classes on June 6, 2007.
Charlotte Cain moves to direct traffic of the 2013 True/False Film Fest March March as convict Mary Catherine Burns, 17, and Landon Wright, 18, as Mario, talk on the courthouse square columns before the parade.
Investigators remove two bodies from 1224 N. Missouri St. and put them in the Coroner’s vehicle October 27, 2009, after a double homicide in Cape Girardeau.
Charlie Roach sorts mail March 28, 2013, at the Hartsburg Post Office.
Four-year-old Jazyln Patterson watched the neighborhood as her aunt, Felicia Smith, did her hair June 4, 2008, along South Sprigg Street in Cape Girardeau.
Kai Newstead, 13, practices drops on aerial silks August 14, 2012, while family and friends watch in east Columbia.
Columbia residents Delta and Charles Murphy play triominoes in their car after rain started coming down prior to the Tigers football game.
Sigma Chi fraternity members play football in the snow outside their house along College Avenue in February 2013. Mizzou cancelled classes due to the weather.
Participants in the Family Resource Center Summer Camp took a quiet moment at the beginning of the day in August 2008 in Cape Girardeau.
Boonville Special Projects Coordinator Kate Fjell, right, discusses the Boonville Katy Bridge restoration on a model with Mike Schupp, of MoDOT, at the Katy Depot in Boonville.
Defendant Anthony Graves shows how he held a gun while firing it out his car window while being cross examined by Assistant Prosecutor Stephanie Morrell at the Boone County Circuit Court.
Liz McCrory, left, Emily Thomas, and Emily Rackers dance the Time Warp in front of the Blue Note stage during a screening of the cult-classic rock opera the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Columbia Fire Department’s Billy Morris dives to attach a winch hook to a submerged Nissan Altima in the pond at Lousville Park in west Columbia. A baseball bat was found wedged in the steering wheel once the car was removed.
Violinist Charlie McGrath peers down the row as his identical twin brother Tommy plays a cello solo during the Missouri Symphony Conservatory Junior Strings concert at the Columbia Senior Activity Center.