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KCUR Morning News 10-25-11

By Maria Carter

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City police say they've fielded about 200 calls from people certain they've spotted Lisa Irwin, the blond-haired baby with chubby cheeks who went missing three weeks ago. But so far, they've had no luck searching for the girl, who was 10 months old when she disappeared from her family's home.

Some Unified Government officials are worried about Wyandotte County's finances despite the apparent success of Kansas Speedway and Village West.

Johnson County Charter Commissioners have agreed to vote in two weeks about whether to have partisan elections.

The Big 12 board of directors has expressed a "strong desire" for Missouri to remain in the conference.

News that American troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year is welcomed by members of the Kansas National Guard who just returned from the region.

Two Missouri men are facing charges of robbing a Johnson County, Kansas, bank while one of them was dressed as a woman.

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