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    <title><![CDATA[   Royals get utility man Freel in trade with Cubs ]]></title>
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        The Royals have acquired utility player Ryan Freel and cash from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for a player to be named. Freel, who mostly played third base for the Cubs, was four for 28 in 14 games for the Cubs before being designated for assignment Thursday.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Meeting on Saturday about saving two Missouri rivers ]]></title>
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        An effort to save the Current and Jacks Fork rivers, also known as the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, will be held Saturday in Kansas City. The riverways is Missouri&amp;rsquo;s largest National Park and attracts nearly 2 million tourists each year. The rivers have been declining over the decades and their long-term &amp;ldquo;health&amp;rdquo; is endangered, environmentalists say.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Decomposed body found in van in KC ]]></title>
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        Kansas City police are investigating the death of a person whose decomposed body was found this morning in a van. Someone reported the body at 8:46 a.m. on 40th Street in between Norton and Jackson avenues. Police said the victim is believed to be a man.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Man, 75, killed when car hits his wheelchair ]]></title>
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        A 75-year-old Lee&amp;rsquo;s Summit man was killed Sunday when his motorized wheelchair was hit by a car. Authorities have not released the man&amp;rsquo;s name.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Teen drowns in Table Rock Lake ]]></title>
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        BRANSON | A Hollister teenager drowned while swimming with her family over the July Fourth weekend.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Kansas leaders approve $700 million in internal borrowing ]]></title>
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        TOPEKA | Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson has permission for $700 million of internal borrowing to head off a government cash crunch.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Late-night fire damages KCK duplex ]]></title>
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        A fire damaged a duplex in Kansas City, Kan., late last night. Firefighters responded to the call about 9:50 p.m. Sunday in the 400 block of South 73rd Terrace.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   NBC Action Weather: Nice, high 83 ]]></title>
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        The heat should return later this week.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Motorcyclist critically injured in early morning crash has died ]]></title>
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        A motorcyclist has died after losing control and crashing his bike along Bruce R. Watkins Drive early this morning. Police identified the cyclist as Kevin Duncan, 37, of Kansas City.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Kansas City police investigate shooting death ]]></title>
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        Kansas City homicide detectives are investigating the shooting death of a young man at Linwood Boulevard and College Avenue tonight. Police received a call about 9:20 p.m. from someone who saw the victim lying in the driveway of an apartment building. Officers found the body of a male who appeared to be in his late teens.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Fire at KCK temple under investigation ]]></title>
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        Fire investigators are looking into what caused a fire at a Kansas City, Kan., temple over the weekend. The fire was reported at 2:20 a.m. Sunday at the Moorish Science Temple of America No. 65, 1700 N. 18th St.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Lamar Hunt gallery to open at Pro Football Hall of Fame ]]></title>
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        The museum will hold an official ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 8 to formally open the new Lamar Hunt Super Bowl Gallery.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Johnson County bus fares increase today ]]></title>
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        Bus fares in Johnson County are going up starting today. Riders of the popular K-10 connector between Overland Park and Lawrence are going to pay 50 cents more with the increase that was approved by the Johnson County Commission last month.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   MU animal research lab reorganized amid concerns over conflicts of interest ]]></title>
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        COLUMBIA | Conflict-of-interest concerns have led to the reorganization of a lab at the University of Missouri. Lela Riley no longer will serve as director of the school&amp;rsquo;s Research Animal Diagnostic Laboratory. There had been concerns that she also was involved with a private company that did business with the lab.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Man sought in stabbing ]]></title>
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        Platte County deputies are looking for a 28-year-old man after two men were stabbed at a party early today. The victims suffered non life-threatening injuries and were expected to be released from the hospital today.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Police say suburban St. Louis woman, missing since Friday, probably was abducted ]]></title>
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        UNION, Mo. | Investigators think a suburban St. Louis woman was abducted after her dog was found wandering near her unlocked car in a park. Deborah Marsch, of Union, has not been seen since she left her home Friday morning.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Kansans want focus on road maintenance, traffic flow, survey finds ]]></title>
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        LAWRENCE | A Kansas Department of Transportation survey finds residents in five large northeast Kansas counties believe maintenance of current roads in the cities and traffic flow on major roads should be the state&amp;rsquo;s top focus. The survey questioned 1,194 households in Douglas, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Cap-and-trade plan could cost northern Kansans more ]]></title>
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        WICHITA | Unless changes are made, a proposed cap-and-trade system would mean coal-dependent northern Kansas utility customers would face higher rate increases than their nuclear-power using neighbors to the south. The systems proposed in Congress would force utilities to reduce their emissions or pay extra for pollution credits.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Despite recession, donors continue to give to Kansas universities ]]></title>
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        TOPEKA | Endowments have taken hits at Kansas&amp;rsquo; two largest public universities as the stock market faltered, but alumni are keeping their pocketbooks open. Officials at the University of Kansas said they expect to see about a 3 percent increase in endowment commitments and contributions in the fiscal year that ended June 30.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Missouri native picked to be NASA astronaut ]]></title>
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        RICHLAND, Mo. | A Missouri native&amp;rsquo;s lifelong dream was realized when he became part of the 2009 class of NASA astronauts, his fourth attempt since 1996. Mike Hopkins, 40, is an Air Force lieutenant colonel who currently is special assistant to the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon.      
    
  

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        Jackson County prosecutors today charged a 50-year-old man with eight felonies after he allegedly beat, raped and sodomized his former girlfriend.      
    
  

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        Kansas City police arrested Shon Pernice, who remains a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife, early today for disturbing the peace.      
    
  

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        Roger Federer was playing for history. Andy Roddick was playing the match of his life.      
    
  

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        The condition of a 14-year-old boy injured by a pipe bomb he ignited Saturday night has improved, police said today.      
    
  

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        Alex Myers, 18, of Liberty, was killed about 5 p.m. Saturday when his motorcycle collided with a car at an intersection near Kearney in Clay County. The Missouri Highway Patrol said Myers was eastbound on N.E. 164 Street when his motorcycle struck a westbound car making a left turn onto Ray Lee Drive. The car was driven by Terry L. Wrisinger, 44, of Kearney. Myers was pronounced dead at the scene.      
    
  

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        The Wizards had plenty of scoring chances after a strong start, but simply could not tie the game after Houston forward Kei Kamara put the Dynamo ahead 1-0 in the 18th minute with a header after a nice cross from defender Mike Chabala from the left side.      
    
  

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        Kansas City, Kan., fire officials said the careless use of fireworks was responsible for a blaze Saturday in one unit of a duplex there. The fire at 3306 N. 84th Terrace was quickly extinguished once firefighters arrived shortly after 2:30 p.m. No one was injured.      
    
  

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        An oil fire caused black smoke to billow inside the Intercontinental Engineering &amp; Manufacturing Corps. this morning in Riverside. Firefighters doused the blaze, created in an oil pit that sparked with flame about 10:40 a.m. beneath some of the company&amp;rsquo;s large metal pressing equipment, said Riverside Fire Department Chief Gordon Fowlston. Twenty firefighters responded to the call and were on the scene about 90 minutes. No injuries were reported. Damage was limited to the interior of the plant at 1001 Intercon Drive.      
    
  

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        A 21-year-old Kansas City man, already suspected this week of robbing one Cragslist.com seller of a PlayStation, ended up behind bars Thursday after a Kansas City police sting allegedly caught him trying to steal another. Charles Bates, now in jail, was charged Friday with second-degree robbery. Police said Bates showed up Thursday in a parking lot near the Truman Sports Complex in response to a Craigslist.com ad to sell a PlayStation video game system.      
    
  

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        Officials at Walt Disney World Resort were investigating what caused the first fatal accident in the 38-year history of the park&#39;s Monorail, a one-time symbol of founder Walt Disney&#39;s vision for future transportation.      
    
  

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        A 37-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man scalded his face severely Friday night from an exploded firework. Paramedics took the man from 5500 North 123rd St. to the hospital at 10:22 p.m.      
    
  

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        Local fire departments doused two vacant house fires early this morning. An arson fire gutted an empty home at 2823 Oakley Ave. at 2:57 a.m. Structure damage is estimated at $20,000.      
    
  

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        Serena Williams kept telling herself she was facing just another foe in the Wimbledon final Saturday, just another woman who hits the ball quite hard, just another player trying to deny her a Grand Slam title.      
    
  

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        Today is Saturday, July 18, the 199th day of 2009. There are 166 days left in the year.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Army `closers' train for new mission: leaving Iraq ]]></title>
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        It was just another day for the U.S. Army in war-weary northern Iraq: insurgents in Mosul, political turf battles in Kirkuk, an attack on the Bayji oil refinery in Salah ad Din.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Disney to reopen monorail after weekend death ]]></title>
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        Walt Disney World plans to reopen a monorail system that was shut down for more than a day after a train operator died in a crash.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Obama, Medvedev agree to pursue nuclear reduction ]]></title>
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        President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a preliminary agreement Monday to reduce the world&#39;s two largest nuclear stockpiles by as much as a third, down to the lowest levels of any U.S.-Russia accord, and counter what Obama called &quot;a sense of drift&quot; in the countries&#39; relations.      
    
  

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