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June 9, 2016

• Ex-Disney employee accused of stealing $112,000 from restaurant cash registers
• TheChat: Republicans once again pulling away from Donald Trump
• Forty-seven ducks, five geese taken in at Kansas City animal shelter
• Should KC expand rail transit? Two rival plans emerge
• Ex-guard is accused of taking bribes to smuggle tobacco into Leavenworth penitentiary
• Ten finalists chosen in KC SuperStar competition and a $10,000 scholarship awaits the winner
• Lenexa man injured falling through a window befriends strangers who came to his aid
• Yellowstone’s rocky start continues as man dies after falling into hot spring
• Meme of Brock Turner and Cory Batey ignites debate about race and sexual assault sentences
• KC soldier who put off Vietnam to see Smokey Robinson is hoping for reunion
• Bridge demolition will close parts of I-35 in Johnson County for weekend
• Readers sound off on Homeland Security, Donald Trump, guns
• MU must do better at hiring and retaining black faculty
• Hillary Clinton tweets 'Delete your account' to Donald Trump, everyone fires back
• KC bank robber who fled in someone else’s truck sentenced to five years in federal prison
• Pedestrian bridge over I-435 dedicated to historic trail convergence in Kansas City
• Police searching for dog that bit Overland Park jogger
• Jurors convict man in 2015 fatal shooting at Kansas City water park
• Missouri bill could give industry more say over water pollution regulations
• Former KU rower allegedly raped in dorm joins class action suit against university
• A promising but costly streetcar expansion plan emerges in Kansas City
• Trump, Akin comparisons pop up again
• Heartland Men’s Chorus celebrates 30 years of gay pride
• Windblown beach umbrella hits, kills woman in Virginia
• Family dog shot, killed by deputies who were at the wrong house
• Two new Zika cases are confirmed in Missouri
• Lawsuit says Lenexa church knew teen volunteer had committed sex crimes
• June is the month to celebrate the Great Outdoors
• Aquinas pitcher Riley Pint goes to Colorado Rockies with No. 4 pick in MLB Draft
• Twenty years later and headed back to KC, Iowa couple still finds competitive edge in tennis
• Analyst: Royals’ World Series celebration was attended by 255,000 people
• Six statistics illustrate how historically bad the Royals have been during skid
• Bulked-up this year, Chiefs center Mitch Morse ready to take the next step
• What a son: Chiefs receiver Albert Wilson was happy to buy his mother a house
• YaYa’s Euro Bistro aims to please with Sunday brunch buffet and menu packed with house favorites
• At Deanna Rose Farmstead, summer puts science front and center
• ‘We don’t want to be Olathe’: Prairie Village planners pass tear-down rules
• Germ-phobia makes a news-laced return
• Winning lottery numbers for Wednesday, June 8
• H&R Block profits fall 21 percent from tax season that was unacceptable to CEO
• DST Systems job cuts hit 1 percent of workforce globally
• Kansas City-based VML picks up H&R Block social media contract
• Some companies trying to halt risk of kids dying from window cords
• You and your arteries can soon enjoy deep-fried Twinkies at home
• EPA hosting public meeting Thursday in Kansas City on renewable fuels
• Kansas State men’s basketball team announces itinerary for Europe trip
• Behind Truman High graduate Paige Parker, Oklahoma wins NCAA softball title
• The Rockhill Grille plans a July opening in the former Cashew space in the Crossroads
• Baseball suspends Royals’ Yordano Ventura nine games, Orioles’ Manny Machado four for fight
• Royals enter the MLB Draft without a first round pick for first time since 1990
• Royals are shut out again as losing streak hits seven games in Baltimore
• Royals stand behind embattled right-hander Yordano Ventura
• Neighbors criticize tax abatement request for West Side apartments
• Local nonprofits help people trapped in a cycle of debt
• KU’s Perry Ellis going through whirlwind schedule to prove he’s NBA player
• KU’s Josh Jackson: One-and-done not a guarantee
• Kansas man who shot himself and a bystander at graduation appears in court
• Kansas City streetcar expansion plan gets mixed reviews
• Heavy rains have stressed vegetables, lawns, flowers and trees