Week in Review: Church Shooting, Pit Bull Ordinance Repeal and Ranken Tech

Too busy last week to stay up to date on all the news happening in and around ? Not to worry. Patch has your back.

In case you missed them, here were some of the top headlines from the last few days:

• A 23-year-old Wentzville man was at a church fundraiser.
• Wentzville firefighters trapped inside burning home.
• Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was in town to tout the state's new push to creat auto jobs. , called "Missouri Works" at a local supplier.
• The meaning many students will face transfers for the 2012-13 school year.
• Wentzville aldermen said they want harsher fines and possibly even jail time for owners of dogs that repeatedly bite other dogs or humans. Those suggestions and more were that will repeal the city's pit bull restrictions.
• The head of the Missouri Department of Transportation said it wouldn't take a public vote to .
• Ranken Technical College, one of the region's foremost technical schools, plans to that should be ready for students by the Fall 2012 semester.
• it would open Feb. 2.
• Brian Feldt began as the .
• Wentzville Patch introduced a new engaging feature to the site, The  This week's restaurant review was on Big Bear's Bar-B-Que.
• Randy Jotte, an emergency room doctor at Barnes Jewish Hospital, for the Republican nomination in the race for the second congressional district, which includes .
• Our Next Generation columnist talked about how .
• Wentzville Patch announced it was . We also announced we are .
• A new study from The Business Journals argues  when compared similar-sized communities in Missouri.