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KCUR Morning News 12-17-09

By Maria Carter

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Kansas City, MO – Missouri received about 22,000 doses of a vaccine for swine flu that has been recalled.

Russell Stover says it will lay off 46 employees at its Abilene candy making plant.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony with Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson has started around-the-clock operations at a new casino in Dodge City.

A state water expert says a moratorium on drilling deep wells in the Ozark aquifer in southeast Kansas could end next year.

The University of Kansas athletics department yesterday disclosed the sum of $ 3 million as part of the settlement between the university and former Jayhawks football coach Mark Mangino.

Two women's basketball players at the University of Missouri won't be charged for allegedly beating up a male cheerleader.

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

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