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KCUR Morning News 9-26-2011

By Maria Carter

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Five months after a Kansas City man was permanently barred from filing tax returns, a grand jury has charged him and more than a dozen others with taking part in the biggest tax fraud scheme ever in Missouri.

Kansans will have a chance to voice their opinions of a proposed oil pipeline that would pass through the state.

More than 400 people gathered at a park in Reno, Nevada yesterday to pay their respects to the victims of a deadly air race crash. Seventy-one-year-old Cheryl Elvin from Lenexa was one of the 11 people who died after the accident. Her husband and two sons were badly injured.

A northwest Missouri farmworker goes on trial today in a case that could impact livestock workers across the state.

Mediation sessions have been scheduled for next month in Kansas City for an ongoing fight over cleaning up contamination at a former Air Force base in Salina, Kansas.

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