KCUR Evening Newscast 2-3-09

KCUR

Published February 3, 2009 at 5:41 AM CST

By Steve Bell

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Kansas City, MO –

Interstate Bakeries has emerged from 4 1/2 years of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, just days before the February 9 deadline.

Democratic Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan becomes the first to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Kit Bond.

University of Missouri System President Gary Forsee will ask the Board of Curators to give him the power to temporarily furlough employees.

A Kansas Senate committee has endorsed a bill that would ban smoking in virtually all enclosed public places in the state.

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