KCUR Evening Newscast 5-8-08

KCUR

Published May 8, 2008 at 5:15 AM CDT

By Steve Bell

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Kansas City, MO –

The Missouri House has passed a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow lawmakers to pass a voter photo-I.D. law. The resolution passed 88 to 69, along a party line vote. It now goes to the State Senate.

U.S. Treasury Secretary William Paulson visited the Kansas City printing plant where economic stimulus checks are being produced.

A federal jury decided that two Kansas City men are guilty of a hate-crime murder in the 2005 shooting of a black pedestrian.

Defunded, but not defeated.

Congress just eliminated federal funding for KCUR, but public radio is for the people.

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