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KCUR Evening Newscast 8-17-09

By Steve Bell

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kcur/local-kcur-855416.mp3

Kansas City, MO –

  • Flash flooding plagues parts of area as more rain approaches.
  • KU to require students under 22 to take alcohol warning course.
  • Kansas commission proposes merging schools for blind, deaf.
  • Missouri remembers Governor Warren Hearns, dead at 86.
  • Virginia Davis, star of Disney's Kansas City "Alice" dies at 90.

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