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Top Stories of 2007

By Steve Bell

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Kansas City, MO –

KS Attorney General Paul Morrison resigns in scandal over affair.
Kline investigations continue with probe of Morrison improprieties.
Funkhouser's repeated stumbles prompt community and council rebukes.
Shields acquitted of mortgage fraud, McFadden-Weaver convicted.
CEOs out amid plummeting profits at H & R Block, Sprint-Nextel.
Ex-Sprint chief Forsee to lead University of Missouri system.
Council repeals Chastain light rail initiative, squabbles over replacement.
Kansas City Schools reorganize, eliminate middle schools.
7 schools secede from Kansas City district after 20 year battle.
Crazed gunman kills shoppers at Ward Parkway Center.
Teen abducted from store parking lot, murdered; charges filed.
Secret Santa Larry Stewart dies at 58.

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