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    Giving kids something to hold: Kansas girls’ blanket project wins national recognition

    Sseven girls from Heartland Elementary School in the Blue Valley School District, now mostly middle-schoolers at Harmony or Aubry Bend, for a few years had been competing in an international problem-solving educational program, Odyssey of the Mind. This time around, however, they decided to take on a side challenge — Odyssey Angels — and create a real-world project to help people in their own community.

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    Hickman Mills school board stages a coup and ousts its president

    Breman Anderson Jr. is removed in a 4-3 vote after one of his allies defects.

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    Royals’ Duffy to start rehab assignment Sunday in minors

    Here’s some much needed good news for the Royals as they look to pull out of their May slide: lefty Danny Duffy is ready to start his minor-league rehab assignment in his recovery from Tommy John surgery.

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    Replay: Chat with Royals infielder Elliot Johnson

    Royals infielder Elliot Johnson answered fans' questions during a web chat earlier today.

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    Demolition set for Wednesday in Merriam for new IKEA store

    The 60,000-square-foot building, which was initially planned for a Circuit City electronics store, will be razed and replaced by an IKEA home furnishing store that will be about six times as large. The IKEA store is scheduled to open in fall 2014.

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    Schumer urges look at security in Sprint deal

    Sen. Charles Schumer urged regulators to "use extreme caution" when reviewing the proposed acquisition of No. 3 cell carrier Sprint Nextel by Japan's Softbank, saying the Japanese company's use of Chinese networking equipment could open up U.S. networks to snooping and hacking.

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    JENEÉ OSTERHELDT

    It’s all downhill at Oceans of Fun’s new water slides

    You can bet your bikini bottoms I braved 66 degrees on an overcast Thursday to test drive the new slide park at Oceans of Fun. Why would I do that? For you. Because Saturday, rain or shine, marks the start of water park season.

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    Dear Abby | Trying to flirt can backfire

    DEAR ABBY: I’m a 21-year-old nursing student in college. I’m a “people person” and everyone says I’m easy to talk to. According to my friends, I am pretty, smart, funny, etc., but I have never had a boyfriend.

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    ‘Fast & Furious 6’: Dumb fun in the summer time | 2 stars

    Bad movies are rarely as much fun as these “Fast and the Furious” pictures. And make no mistake about it — they’re bad.

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    Kansas City Ballet names a veteran dancer and choreographer as its artistic director

    Devon Carney is expected to take the creative reins of one of the city’s most important performing arts organizations in July. He succeeds William Whitener, who retired this month.

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    India buys helicopters while its children starve

    The state is so badly neglecting its young, the next generation of the nation’s business and political leaders, that India is threatening its very future.

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    FBI plan puts our privacy at risk

    Technology is moving faster than before, and laws must move equally fast if they are to keep up with ever-changing reality. But this is not the way to do it: leaving your emails, IMs, etc. deliberately available at all times for law enforcement (or others) is an overreaction, a move of desperation.

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