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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo -- Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that adds new restrictions and requirements for illegal immigrants, the cities in which they live and the businesses that employ ...

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It's about that time again: My Morning Jacket are gearing up to take their spectacle of a live show cross country. via Ultimate-guitar.com

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The Missouri Senate passed a bill that would make copper theft less profitable. On Wednesday night, lawmakers passed a bill that will make it easier for police to track people selling scrap metal like copper. via KCTV Kansas City

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Mayor Funkhouser wants Kansas City to be more bicycle friendly, he said Wednesday at a news conference. via ClipSyndicate

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Kansas City, Missouri Police and the FBI Violent Crimes and Fugitive Task Force are asking for the public's help in locating Jesse V. Fernandez, a Hispanic male, 18 years of age. via Crime Scene KC

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Jackson County prosecutors announced criminal charges this afternoon against the driver who fled a police stop Monday night and crashed into another car, killing a mother and daughter.Prosecutors charged Randy ... via KansasCity.com

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“I think this will bring closure for me after all these years. I had surgery in 2005 on my neck”

The Kansas City Parks Board heard from a group dedicated to building a memorial for those who died in the collapse of the skywalks at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City nearly 27 years ago. via NBC Action News

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The Kansas City Star asked Mayor Mark Funkhouser and his 12 colleagues on the Kansas City Council to grade themselves.Here is how they responded:•Mayor Pro Tem Bill Skaggs, 1st District: A+ because they ... via KansasCity.com

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A mother and her daughter were killed Monday night when their car apparently was struck by a vehicle that had fled a police stop a short time earlier.Two other girls in the car, also daughters of the woman ... via Kansas City Star

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“Barkau obtained control of a 12-year-old girl and he groomed, trained and forced her to become a sexual dominatrix”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Monday accusing a man and woman of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts. via WJLA-TV Arlington

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“They focused on our objectives and executed on our plans. Products such as Second Look, the Emerald Card, the Emerald Advance Line and military (refund-anticipation loans) showed good traction this year.”

H&R Block Inc. reported its strongest tax-season results since 1999, with net tax-preparation fees up 8.9 percent from the prior year. via Kansas City Business Journal

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Jury selection is set to begin in the trial this week of a teenager charged with killing his best friend's mother in suburban Kansas City. via KCTV Kansas City

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“The officer subsequently shot and killed him”

Police on Sunday identified a man shot Friday by an officer responding to a call at a house in east Kansas City.The man, Rodney A. Jones, 44, lived at the home in the 10300 block of E. 43rd Street east of the ... via KansasCity.com

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“The challenge was to get the best student that we could, and Josh definitely fit that”

From his first day at Morehouse College - the country's only institution of higher learning dedicated to the education of black men - Joshua Packwood has been a standout. via The Modesto Bee

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“It's hard to imagine a more cruel and heartless burglary scheme than this one”

'Funeral Day Burglar' found guilty of 10 counts in Mo. Prosecutors say Dane S. Johnson and a co-defendant who pleaded guilty burglarized more than 30 Kansas City-area homes, picking their victims by reading ... via Lincoln Daily News

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Kansas City Police identified the man who was shot and killed by an officer. Police say Terry Davis, 26, pointed a gun at officers during a foot chase Thursday afternoon. via KSHB-TV Kansas City

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A Jackson County judge rejected an effort by Planned Parenthood to overturn a new Missouri law that tightens oversight of abortion clinics. via Southeast Missourian

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The second of two men who burglarized the homes of people attending funerals was convicted by a Platte County judge Friday.Dane S. Johnson, 35, of Kansas City was convicted of five counts each of burglary and ... via Kansas City Star

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“It's going to be separate suits in those different venues over the contents of those letters”

A Jackson County judge has split a defamation and wrongful firing lawsuit against Gov. via Southeast Missourian

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Clearwire and Sprint Nextel said Wednesday they will combine their wireless broadband units to create a $14.55 billion communications company. via The Indianapolis Star

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A federal jury has convicted two Kansas City men in the hate-crime murder of a black pedestrian. via KCTV Kansas City

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“When we say the check will be in the mail, we mean it”

IRS rebate checks are being printed in Kansas City, Mo. MyFox Kansas City Reports US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is touring the facility today, watching the checks being printed. via MyFox St. Louis

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A Missouri teen has been hospitalized with an infection, said to be life-threatening, that resulted from an attempt to pierce his own lip. via The Post Chronicle

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Missouri lawmakers give final approval to $240 million of incentives for a Canadian airplane maker to open an assembly plant in Kansas City.The enticements for Bombardier Aerospace cleared the House on ... via KansasCity.com

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“I think it's incredibly unfair”

Jackson County homes and businesses are over-valued and possibly over-taxed with no quick fix in sight, according to County Executive Mike Sanders. via KSHB-TV Kansas City

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“The regional school improvement team will monitor the districts accountability plan, the plan should be updated and submitted to the department quarterly”

" There is intense scrutiny for Kansas City Public Schools as the pressure goes up to get on the right track. via KSHB-TV Kansas City

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Talk about workin' on the railroad. A railroad gang is bringing the words of that old American folk song to life in a nearly $8 million track improvement project in northeast Kansas. via KHGI

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It was the mid-1980s, and in Kansas City, Mo., teenager Aaron Dontez Yates decided to move from straight-up beatboxing to writing his own rhymes. via Miami.com

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Sun May 4, 2008 7:18 AM EDT -Tina Turner performs at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles February 10, 2008. via Macon Area Online

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“If the damage is only within a three-block radius and structures are still standing, it seems to me it would be categorized as a bow echo. That seems to be more consistent with that sort of thunderstorm than a touchdown of a tornado”

A violent storm system moved through the Kansas City area early on Friday morning, damaging homes and businesses and injuring at least three people. via KMBC

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“It really is allowing us to complete so many of our long-range facility plans that were brought forth after we went through and evaluated all of our buildings to see what they needed.”

Columbia Public Schools administrators are in the process of repairing facilities and cleaning classrooms after air-quality tests conducted in January showed high levels of mold and carbon dioxide in various ... via Columbia Daily Tribune

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"AllI saw was Dust" Miss Hampton University is charged with shoplifting, so her run for Miss America is over. via WTKR-TV Norfolk

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Missouri has scaled back the incentives it is offering for Canadian airplane maker Bombardier Aerospace to open a plant in Kansas City in an attempt to win legislative approval of the deal. via TheKansasCityChannel.com

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“Our hope is that sexual predators will get the message that they will pay a heavy price for using the Internet to prowl for children. We will hunt these criminals down. We will catch them. And they will go to prison.”

Platte County authorities have put another Internet predator behind bars. Matthew Keenan, 22, of Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced to five years in prison on May 1 for using the Internet to try to solicit sex ... via NBC Action News

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“Affirmative action is for minorities to get a chance to get different jobs.”

St. Louis -- Wallace Wicks thought it was odd Wednesday when a volunteer asked him to sign his name on a petition -- not once but three times. via Springfield News Leader

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It was supposed to be a treat for kids at a Kansas City, Mo., day care -- a pony brought in to give rides -- but when a pit bull got loose, things turned terrifying. via ClipSyndicate

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