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KCUR Morning News 5-28-10

By Maria Carter

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Kansas City, MO – Shawnee and its Fire Department, family and friends paid their last respects yesterday to John Glaser, the firefighter killed this past Saturday.

Kansas City officials say a controversial dress code for the Power and Light district has changed.

Five Kansas City Councilwomen took the floor yesterday to take Mayor Mark Funkhouser to task for stripping away all of their colleague Jan Marcason's committee positions.

Ameren UE's Taum Sauk Reservoir is once again generating electricity. The St. Louis-based utility had the hydroelectric plant in southeastern Missouri rebuilt after its walls collapsed more than 4 years ago.

Kansas City police say the bodies of two men were found in a grocery cart behind a home.

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