By Steve Bell
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KANSAS CITY, MO –
KCUR Evening Headlines (1 min 49 sec)
- The Kansas City Star is reporting that the NAACP will hold its 2010 convention in Kansas City.
- According to the FBI, authorities have recovered the remains of two U.S. contractors who were kidnapped in Iraq a year and a half ago.
- The Kansas House gave preliminary approval today to a health reform bill that would subsidize the cost of insurance premiums for certain low-income families.
- The Missouri Department of Transportation is advocating $10.6 million in state spending to build more sidings on the railroad tracks it leases from the Union Pacific Railroad for the Amtak route from Kansas City to St. Louis.