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    <title><![CDATA[   Car windows shattered in Blue Springs ]]></title>
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        Police are investigating how the windows got broken overnight in several dozen vehicles. Officers believe the windows were probably shattered by someone using a pellet gun or BB gun.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Chimney fire damages Overland Park home ]]></title>
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        When fire crews arrived in the 6800 block of Mackey Street, smoke was visible but the home&#39;s occupants were safely out of the house. Damage to the home was estimated at $50,000.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   KU appears headed to Insight Bowl ]]></title>
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        The Kansas football team will have a news conference at noon today to discuss its bowl destination. It appears the Jayhawks will be headed to the Insight Bowl on Dec. 31 in Tempe, Ariz.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Sen. Brownback vows to fight detainee transfer to Kansas ]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[   Police chases across state line end; no one in custody ]]></title>
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        Police were involved in a chase with multiple vehicles &amp;mdash; at times headed the wrong way on the interstate &amp;mdash; starting around 4:30 p.m. today.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Man sentenced to life plus 75 years for fatal shooting ]]></title>
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        A former Northland resident today was sentenced to life plus 75 years in prison for fatally shooting a man in a landlord-tenant dispute last year.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   KC man guilty in rape ]]></title>
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        A Jackson County jury convicted a 41-year man today on rape and robbery charges. Lawrence E. Neal of Kansas City had been accused of hopping in the stalled car of a 20-year-old woman at the intersection of 81st Street and Troost Avenue on Jan. 14. According to evidence at trial, he ordered her to go to his apartment in the 8200 block of Troost Avenue, where he raped her. Escorting her to a grocery, Neal then forced her to cash a check for $50, which she turned over to him.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Police officer recounts chase of robbery suspects ]]></title>
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        A Kansas City, Kan., police officer testified today that he apprehended Fredrick Douglas, the man accused of shooting an off-duty detective at Kansas Speedway.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Dozens of guns confiscated after Missouri burglaries ]]></title>
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        TROY, Mo. | A husband-and-wife team of burglars broke into about 60 homes around rural eastern Missouri, stealing guns, jewelry and other valuables and selling them to a jewelry store owner who then sold the stolen goods over the Internet, authorities said Thursday.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   KC man convicted of killing grandfather with hammer ]]></title>
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        A Jackson County jury convicted a 25-year-old man of voluntary manslaughter today for killing his grandfather with a hammer.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Council rejects Funkhouser proposal to settle Bates lawsuit ]]></title>
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        Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser today proposed settling the lawsuit filed against him, his wife and the city by a former mayoral employee. But the council rejected the proposal on a 2-10 vote.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   KC conductor Bruffy hauls in more Grammy nominations ]]></title>
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        Make that four more Grammy nominations for Kansas City choral conductor Charles Bruffy. Bruffy, musical director of the Kansas City Symphony Chorus as well as the Kansas City Chorale and the Phoenix Chorale, last year landed five Grammy nominations for a recording of Russian liturgical music, and in February scored a winner for best engineering of a classical album. In Grammy nominations announced Wednesday night, Bruffy earned three nominations for two recordings.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Leavenworth County sheriff treated at hospital after car accident ]]></title>
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        Leavenworth County Sheriff David Zoellner was rushed to the hospital this morning after a car crash.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Brownback opposes bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees to Kansas ]]></title>
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        Sen. Sam Brownback is raising concerns about discussions to bring some of the terrorist detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay to Kansas.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Kansas Supreme Court to rule Friday on abortion clinic case ]]></title>
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        TOPEKA | The Kansas Supreme Court says it will rule Friday on an abortion clinic&amp;rsquo;s attempt to force a prosecutor to return patients&amp;rsquo; medical records that have become key evidence for criminal charges against it.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Woman says she was raped in Power & Light tavern ]]></title>
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        Kansas City police are investigating a rape reported early today in the bathroom of a tavern in the Power &amp; Light District.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   KC faces big shortfall next year ]]></title>
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        Kansas City could be looking at a budget shortfall of more than $80 million next year, but city officials say they&amp;rsquo;re addressing the situation now and will present a balanced budget proposal in January.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Grandview bank robbed late Wednesday ]]></title>
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        The FBI is looking for a gunman who robbed a Grandview bank late Wednesday. The man, wearing a ski mask, approached two employees of Bank Midwest, 6500 E. Main St., about 6:15 p.m. in the parking lot and forced the employees back into the bank.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Fines sought against Blunt for &ldquo;purposely&rdquo; violating Sunshine Law ]]></title>
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        JEFFERSON CITY | Special court-appointed investigators are seeking fines against Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, alleging he &amp;ldquo;knowingly and purposely violated the Sunshine Law&amp;rdquo; by denying access to e-mails.      
    
  

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        No body was found in a car pulled this afternoon from a lake in Blue Valley Park. Dispatchers sent emergency crews to the site at 24th and Topping streets shortly after 10 a.m. today. They reported that the top of the car was about a foot below the surface.      
    
  

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        The Jackson County Medical Examiner&amp;rsquo;s office asked for help this morning in finding the family of a deceased 43-year-old woman.      
    
  

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        A man attempted to snatch a woman&#39;s purse in a Lee&#39;s Summit parking lot and the whole incident was caught on the store&#39;s surveillance camera.      
    
  

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        The Liberty School District is planning to chop $5.7 million from its budget, and that means job cuts. Documents released by the district suggest getting rid of roughly 74 teachers and staff members.      
    
  

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        Investigators say arson is the cause of a fire that ripped through a carport in Riverside. Fire crews were called to the 2200 block of N.W. Homestead Terrace around 2:30 a.m. Thursday.      
    
  

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        An early morning wreck on westbound I-70 near Van Brunt slowed traffic during the early morning commute Thursday.      
    
  

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        Two businesses face the suspension of their liquor licenses for several days after Kansas City cited them for violating city ordinances.      
    
  

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        A man suffered serious injuries this morning during an armed robbery outside a Kansas City laundry. The street robbery occurred about 4:30 a.m. in the 3500 Block of Main Street.      
    
  

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        As Kansas City, Kan., Detective Susan Brown lay inside an ambulance two years ago, wounded from a shooting at Kansas Speedway, she heard a colleague say a prayer.      
    
  

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        The northbound lanes of U.S. 169, north of the Broadway Bridge in Kansas City, are closed because of a wreck that critically injured a driver.      
    
  

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        CLAYTON, Mo. | First-degree murder charges are filed in the October shooting death of a suburban St. Louis police officer.      
    
  

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        Kansas City police arrested a murder suspect Tuesday night who allegedly was carrying the murder weapon in his pocket.      
    
  

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        A 23-year-old woman escaped injury Tuesday night when someone shot out the window directly behind her as she played a computer game in her home office in south Kansas City.      
    
  

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        TOPEKA | The Kansas attorney general&#39;s office is asking a federal court to dismiss Sunflower Electric Power Corp.&#39;s lawsuit against the state for denying an air quality permit it needs to build two coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas.      
    
  

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        The Unified Government in Wyandotte County has thrown The Woodlands under the state&#39;s gambling bus. The city&#39;s lobbying priorities for next year, recently and unanimously adopted by UG commissioners, include opposition to any rekindling of the statewide debate on casino gambling that some hope would lead to a reopening of the pari-mutuel dog and horse racing track that closed in August.      
    
  

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        Some Kansas City Council members are outraged at the funding allocation they may get from the state of Missouri to help deal with the foreclosure crisis.      
    
  

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