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KCUR Morning News 5-17-10

By Maria Carter

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Kansas City, MO – The state agency responsible for reaching out to the 235,000 former service members in Kansas ranks dead last in the ratio of service representatives to veterans.

The Kansas attorney general plans to seek support for a brief he will file with the U.S. Supreme Court in a support of a man suing members of an anti-gay WEstboro Baptist Church in Topeka.

Six Kansas cities have signed onto a lawsuit against the maker of the weed killer atrazine.

Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson is marking the anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling by signing a bill to put a mural about it in the Statehouse.

The name of a man killed when his riding mower apparently tipped into a Kansas City creek has been released.

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