Yasmeen Saadi

2 weeks ago | columbiamissourian.com | Saf Homin |Sara Burnett |Faith Boyd |Yasmeen Saadi

By Saf Homin/Missourian,Sara Kate Burnett/Missourian,Faith Boyd,Yasmeen Saadi,Sarah Kiefer The renovated skate park at Douglass Park, featuring improvements to its size and layout, reopened Monday. For the past two months, the skate park has been closed due to construction. The park has doubled in size and includes five additional concrete structures for skaters to use.

2 weeks ago | columbiamissourian.com | Jazmyne Martinez |Yasmeen Saadi |Elizabeth Brixey

Eating disorders and disordered-eating behaviors, particularly in teens and adolescents, spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to national studies. Five years later, an MU Health Care physician said these effects are still being felt. People experiencing eating disorders were some of the most vulnerable to the effects of the pandemic because of increased stress and uncertainty associated with the lockdown, according to a review of studies conducted by the National Institutes of Health.

1 month ago | columbiamissourian.com | Tanvi Kulkarni |Yasmeen Saadi |Elizabeth Brixey

The Columbia School Board is considering a public service announcement on safe storage of firearms as well as a board resolution and more discussion on ways to educate district families. Columbia Public Schools spokesperson Michelle Baumstark said the district has met with representatives of the Columbia Police Department and the city to draft a script for 15-second and 30-second PSAs. The PSAs will come at no cost to the district.

2 months ago | columbiamissourian.com | Sophia Scheller |Zoe Naylor |Yasmeen Saadi

Fourteen police officers in training drove around a policing center in Columbia, eyes peeled, as they practiced responding to a "shots fired" call early Tuesday morning. The drill was one of many simulations the recruits have practiced over the last five months as part of the first graduating class of the Columbia Police Department's in-house police academy. The class graduated Friday evening in a ceremony at C2 Church. In attendance were academy staff, friends, family and community members.

2 months ago | columbiamissourian.com | Tanvi Kulkarni |Yasmeen Saadi |Elizabeth Brixey

By Tanvi Kulkarni,Yasmeen Saadi,Elizabeth Brixey Messaging and tracking technology will be used by Columbia Public Schools' new bus service for the 2025-26 school year. Representatives from DS Bus Lines Inc. introduced the technology at the Columbia School Board's Long-Range Facilities Planning Committee meeting Wednesday.