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KCUR Morning News 7-21-09

By Maria Carter

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Kansas City, MO – As many 200 teachers in the Kansas city, Missouri district could laid off before the school year begins.

A 16 year old boy has been arrested, suspected of being part of a rolling gun battle last weekend in which a stray shot killed a bystander.

In light of the recent murders, Kansas City's mayor Mark Funkhouser wants to dispel the notion that Kansas City is crime ridden.

Summertime hasn't put the brakes on the swine flu outbreak in Kansas.

Topeka officials have given the new owner of the school at the center of the historic Brown v. Board of Education case 60 days to correct property violation.

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