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KCUR Morning News 6-21-09

By Maria Carter

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Kansas City, MO –
The University of Kansas Hospital is scheduled to open a new six-story addition in 2011 that will house most of the doctors serving the hospital and the University of Kansas Medical Center.

A lack of funding has stalled a program meant to provide dental care to low-income pregnant women in Kansas.

A Vatican investigator will be in Kansas this week to investigate whether a recovery last year was a miracle.

The state of Missouri is poised to name a section of highway after a Jewish Holocaust survivor, but his daughter is objecting.

The Kansas City Royals reached a low point of their season yesterday to the St. Louis Cardinals.

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

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