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KCUR Evening Newscast 2-19-08

By Steve Bell

KANSAS CITY, MO –
KCUR Evening Headlines (1 min 47 sec)

  • There will be no recall election for Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser.
  • Kansas legislators who want to allow Sunflower Electric Company to build two coal-fired power plants near Holcomb are hustling for more votes they'll need to override a virtually certain veto by Governor Sebelius.
  • Jackson County prosecutors say two teenagers from Truman High School tried to activate a murder-for-hire hit on one of the boys' parents.

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