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FRIDAY 05/01/2026: Of mice and man's best friend

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THURSDAY 04/30/2026: UMKC students question hiring of new university police chief

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TUESDAY 04/28/2026: This Kansas 6th grader is fighting lunch debt at her school

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MONDAY 04/27/20226: Jackson County Executive Phil LeVota on running for office and the Royals

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FRIDAY 04/24/2026: Does the new Royals ballpark look any good?

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THURSDAY 04/23/26: How does Kansas talk about abolitionist John Brown?

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WEDNESDAY 04/22/26: What the Kansas Legislature did — and didn't do — this session

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TUESDAY 04/21/26: How a Kansas City nonprofit is using its flower power for good

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MONDAY 04/20/26: Immigration arrests in Missouri tripled under Trump

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FRIDAY 04/17/26: Where Kansas City teens turn their stories into song

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THURSDAY 04/16/2026: Trump criticized over foreign farm worker policy

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WEDNESDAY 04/15/2026: Revealing a Missouri sniper who killed a 2-year-old girl

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TUESDAY 04/14/26: A Missouri man's life after deportation

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MONDAY 04/13/2026: Mayor Quinton Lucas pushes new Royals stadium proposal

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FRIDAY 04/10/2026: How Negro Creek got its name

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THURSDAY 04/09/2026: What vetoes will the Kansas Legislature overturn?

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WEDNESDAY 04/08/2026: Election results and dead frogs

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TUESDAY 04/07/2026: It's election day around Kansas City!

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MONDAY 04/06/26: Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway

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FRIDAY 04/03/26: Rep. Sam Graves sets off shockwaves with retirement

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THURSDAY 04/02/26: No seriously, Kansas City's budget is really interesting

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WEDNESDAY 04/01/2026: A boozy border war over the World Cup

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TUESDAY 03/31/2026: What voters should know about the Hickman Mills school bond

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MONDAY 03/30/2026: Kansas City has a lot riding on this earning tax vote

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FRIDAY 03/27/2026: Kansas City's Moby Dick musical is a whale of a show

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THURSDAY 03/26/2026: Rural Kansas has trouble keeping grocery stores alive

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WEDNESDAY 03/25/2026: Data centers are a big factor in the Independence elections

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TUESDAY 03/24/2026: Do you hear that? It's a KU professor's tinnitus research

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MONDAY 03/23/2026: Income tax cuts, date rape drugs and other Missouri bills to watch

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FRIDAY 03/20/2026: A hamburger UFO mural in Kansas is causing major beef

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THURSDAY 03/19/2026: Kansas lawmakers are using AI with no guardrails

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WEDNESDAY 03/18/2026: Fighting flooding in Kansas City, Kansas

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TUESDAY 03/17/2026: Kansas City finally gets federal funding for World Cup security

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MONDAY 03/16/2026: Stuck in Missouri jails waiting for mental health help

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FRIDAY 03/13/2026: Why these Kansas students walked out of school to protest ICE

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THURSDAY 03/12/2026: Leavenworth opens its doors to ICE detention center

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WEDNESDAY 03/11/2026: Why an adopted Kansas teen was forced to leave his home

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TUESDAY 03/10./2026: Not letting medical debt cut kids from the team

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MONDAY 03/09/2026: Electricity costs are rising fast in Missouri. Is there a fix?

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FRIDAY 03/06/2026: Kansas City invented the crime of jaywalking — and then repealed it

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THURSDAY 03/05/2026: KCATA has no plan yet for 'functionally free' bus fares

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WEDNESDAY 03/04/2026: Kansas City's Iranians are hopeful, but wary

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TUESDAY 03/03/2026: Kansas City rolls back energy efficiency rules for buildings

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MONDAY 03/02/2026: Transgender Kansans had their IDs invalidated overnight

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FRIDAY 02/27/2026: Missouri Republicans stress about a 'tough' midterm environment

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THURSDAY 02/26/2025: How Olathe students are responding to ICE activity in town

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WEDNESDAY 02/26/2026: Putting the blue back in the Blue River

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TUESDAY 02/24/2026: Should Kansas City get a say when KCPD pays to settle lawsuits?

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MONDAY 02/23/26: Can Missouri function without state income tax?

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FRIDAY 02/20/2026: Library cards become art in the hands of this Kansas City woman

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THURSDAY 02/19/26: Renewable energy in rural Kansas runs up against skepticism

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WEDNESDAY 02/18/2026: Training Kansas Citians to observe and record ICE

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TUESDAY 02/17/2026: A daily newspaper is still going strong in this small Kansas town

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MONDAY 02/16/26: Independence residents rush to stop a data center

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FRIDAY 02/13/26: Kansas City is at the very center of the 2026 World Cup

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THURSDAY 02/12/2026: Kansas City pushes back against company selling warehouse to ICE

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WEDNESDAY 02/11/2026: A promising new strategy for affordable housing in Kansas

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TUESDAY 02/10/26: Why is this Kansas City charter school seeing so much turnover?

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MONDAY 02/09/2026: Is Missouri's bet on sports betting paying off?

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FRIDAY 02/06/2026: These Kansas City students run their own credit union

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THURSDAY 02/05/2026: Kansas City tenants end their 4-month rent strike with a deal

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WEDNESDAY: 02/04/2026: How Kansans are supporting each other through Parkinson's disease

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TUESDAY 02/03/2026: Lenexa resident targeted by police after opinion column

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MONDAY 02/02/2026 :

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FRIDAY 01/30/2026 - Adiós, La Fonda

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THURSDAY 01/29/26: Kansas City families struggle to find child care

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WEDNESDAY 01/28/2026: Waiting for a decision in Missouri's abortion rules trial

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TUESDAY 01/27/2026: The Kansas City nurse helping unhoused people access care

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MONDAY 01/26/2026: Will Missouri kick Kansas City out of Jackson County?

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FRIDAY 01/23/2026: One last look at KCUR's crumbling offices

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THURSDAY 01/22/2026: Kansas City activists mobilize against immigration enforcement

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WEDNESDAY 01/21/2026: The tumblin' tumbleweed is plaguing western Kansas

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TUESDAY - 01/20/26: Missouri's trial over abortion restrictions heads into week 2

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MONDAY - 01/19/26: KCUR was told to leave our building. Here's what we know

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FRIDAY - 01/16/26: The Royals may be running out of options for a new stadium

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THURSDAY 01/15/2026: Kansas City data center among the first to nab clean energy loan

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WEDNESDAY 01/14/26: Kansas City says goodbye to the Liberty Tree

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KC TODAY 011326 - TUE: What's ahead for Johnson County in 2026?

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Tuesday - 011326: What's ahead for Johnson County in 2026?

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MONDAY 01/12/2026: Missouri's trial over abortion restrictions begins

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FRIDAY 01/09/26: The Chief's face big questions after a surprisingly bad season

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THURSDAY 01/08/2026: What's ahead for Missouri in 2026: tax cuts and a tight budget

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WEDNESDAY 01/07/2026: What are the STAR Bonds that Kansas is giving to the Chiefs?

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TUESDAY - 01062026: A Kansas City artist crafts fashion, and guns, out of ceramic

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MONDAY 01/05/2026: A Kansas City legislator worries about Missouri's budget this year

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FRIDAY 01/02/2026: How Kansas is trying to save its vanishing river life

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WEDNESDAY 12/31/2025: The year that was in Kansas

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TUESDAY 12/30/2025: The year that was in Missouri

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MONDAY 12/29/2025: 2025 was a tough year for Kansas City's federal workers

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WEDNESDAY 12/24/2025: A Kansas City cook wants you to make the perfect pie

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TUESDAY12/23/2025: The Chiefs are moving to Kansas

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Families flee Kansas over transgender care ban

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FRIDAY 12/19/2025: Why are so many Black students ditching Mizzou?

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THURSDAY 12/18/2025: Meet the women pinball players at the 403 Club in Strawberry Hill

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TUESDAY 12/16/2025: Kansas City Water turns 100

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MONDAY 12/15/2025: The state of the Missouri secretary of state

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THURSDAY 12/11/25: A real mess of redistricting news in Missouri

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WEDNESDAY 12/10/2025: Kansas could make one change to help tenants against bad landlords

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MONDAY 12/08/2025: Missouri is losing a federal food assistance program

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FRIDAY 12/05/2025: A mile-deep nuclear reactor comes to Kansas

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THURSDAY 12/04/2025: More older Kansas moms

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WEDNESDAY 12/03/2025: Victims mark 1 year since Roger Golubski's suicide

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MONDAY 12/01/2025: Wyandotte County's new law could criminalize homelessness

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FRIDAY 11/28/2025 : A Scout holiday tradition that began in Missouri

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TUESDAY 11/25/2025: Kansas City is relaxing rules for short-term rentals

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MONDAY 11/24/2025: Missouri didn't bother counting prison deaths, until now

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FRIDAY 11/21/2025: The Plaza's new vision, and tax break ask, worry some locals

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THURSDAY 11/20/2025: A Kansas hospital sued a family over a $230 bill

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WEDNESDAY 11/19/2025: Downtown Kansas City is plagued by graffiti

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TUESDAY 11/18/2025: This Social Security worker helped people through the shutdown

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MONDAY 11/17/2025: This Social Security worker helped people through the shutdown

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FRIDAY 11/14/2025: Independence hair museum finds a second life for its unusual art

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THURSDAY 11/13/2025: Ticks in Missouri are causing a red meat allergy

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WEDNESDAY 11/12/2025: Kansas City nonprofits stepped up during the shutdown

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KC TODAY 111125 - TUE - Mexican American veterans lend their voices to Kansas City project

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KC Today - 111025 - What the shutdown has meant for one Kansas City IRS worker

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KC TODAY - 110725 - FRI - A Kansas City walking group is transforming its community

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KC TODAY 11625 - THU - Kansas City, Kansas, Police's secret misconduct list

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KC TODAY - 110525 - WED _ ELECTION

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KC TODAY 11425 - TUE - Missouri voters could counter GOP redistricting plans

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110325 - KC Today - Independence 4-day school week.mp3

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KC Today – 103125 – FRI – How KC got swept into the NYC mayoral debate.mp3

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KC TODAY 103025 - THU - And the award for Missouri Teacher of the Year goes to...

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KC TODAY 102925 - WED - Kansas City's Throttle Dome offers a legal space for car sideshows

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KC TODAY 102825 - TUE - Why a Kansas college runner collapsed in extreme heat

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KC TODAY - 102725 - MON_Shutdown consequences reach into Johnson County

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KCTODAY 102425 - FRI - Ding ding! Make way for the streetcar

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KC Today - 102325 - THU - Could Kansas get new nuclear reactors?

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KC TODAY 102225 - WED - Missouri voters want to overturn gerrymandered map

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KCTODAY PRODUCER TRAINING_DOVETAIL EXAMPLE

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KC TODAY - 101325 - MON_Why is Missouri demanding abortion patient records_-18

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KC TODAY 101025 - FRI_Why are four Kansas school districts being investigated?

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KC TODAY 100925 - THU - And the award for Kansas Teacher of the Year goes to

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100825 - WED_It's corn We can tell you all about it

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100725 - TUE_Girls' flag football is taking the field in Kansas

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KC TODAY - 100625 - MON_Abortion is on the docket in Missouri and Kansas courts

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KC TODAY - 100325 - FRI_How to explore a Lawrence museum's hidden treasures

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KC TODAY - 100225 - THU__Voters recalled Frank White Jr. Now things could get messy

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KC TODAY - 100125 - WED_What will it take to get rural Missouri and Kansas online

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KC TODAY - 093025 - TUE_Kansans are spotting more mountain lions

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KC TODAY_092925 - MON_Kansas is in a battle over SNAP recipient data

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KC TODAY_092625_FRI - Is Missouri ready for legal sports betting

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KC TODAY - 092525 - THU__Why Missouri has become a hotspot for copper thefts

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KC TODAY 092425 - WED_Inside an ICE facility in Kansas

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KC TODAY - 091224 - TUE__Fewer international students means a big problem for colleges

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KC TODAY - 092225 - MON__-18

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KC TODAY - 091925 - FRI - A Kansas City spin on 'American Gothic' and 'The Last Supper'

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KC TODAY - 091825 - THU - Kansas ACLU goes against Trump on cashless bail

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KC TODAY - 091725 - WED_A death in the Wyandotte County Jail

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KC TODAY - 091625 - TUE_What will happen to Kansas' small family-run newspapers

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KC TODAY - 091525 -MON -Missouri could make it hard for voters to change the constitution

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KC TODAY - 091225 - FRI - Troost may once again divide Kansas City

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KC TODAY - 091125 - THU - Kansas doulas helping Indigenous women

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KC TODAY - 091025 - WED - Will Kansas Republicans try for another gerrymander?

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KC TODAY 090925 - TUE__-Bye to Bailey

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KC TODAY - 090825- MON__Inside the 'very tense' Missouri special session

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KC TODAY 090525 - FRI_The Kansas museum that's saving Civil War flags

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KC TODAY - 090425 - THU - Why Missouri utility companies are monopolies

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KC TODAY - 090325 - WED_The group targeting Missouri's recidivism rate

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KC TODAY - 090225 - TUE - Rep. Emanuel Cleaver responds to redistricting threat

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KC TODAY_082925 - Fri - _

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KC TODAY - 082825 - THU - Missouri kept a trans prisoner in solitary for 2,000 days

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KC TODAY - 082725 - WED_-18

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KC TODAY - 082625 - TUE - Meet me at the fair_-18

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KC TODAY - 082525 - MON - Why is Andrew Bailey joining Trump's FBI

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KC TODAY - 082225 - FRI _A new era for a beloved Kansas City ice cream shop

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KC-TODAY-082125-THU-Inside Kansas City's new contract for bus service

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KC-TODAY-082025-WED-Kansas City med students help refugees navigate health care

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KC-TODAY-081925-TUE-Prairie Village voters could abandon their government

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KC TODAY - 081824 - MON_Missouri Republicans barrel towards gerrymandering_-18

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KC TODAY - 081525 - FRI_Does the Tonganoxie Split protect Kansas City from tornadoes

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KC-TODAY-081425-THU-What's happening with the ICE detention center in Leavenworth

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KC-TODAY-081325-WED-The fate of voter-approved paid sick leave in Missouri

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KC-TODAY-081225-TUE-This Kansas business is keeping marbles alive

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KC TODAY - 081125 - MON_Fierce competition to be Kansas' next governor

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KC-TODAY-080825-FRI-Lawrence and KU make their pitch to the World Cup

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KC-TODAY-080725-THU-Thousands of Kansans may go hungry after SNAP cuts_-18

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KC TODAY - 080525 - WED_How kayakers are cleaning up the Kansas River

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KC-TODAY-080525-TUE-Accessing non-medical gender-affirming care in Missouri

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KC TODAY - 080425 - MON_Missouri lawmakers vs. Missouri voters

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KC TODAY - 080125 - FRI__-18

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KC-TODAY-073125-THU-What led to the Family Dollar store collapse

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KC-TODAY-073025-WED-GOP redistricting could target Kansas City's U.S. House seat

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KC-TODAY-072925-TUE_How Black teens feel about a new law protecting natural hair

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KC TODAY - 072825 - MON - Why is a national Christian group targeting a Missouri school board?

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KC TODAY - 072525 - fri_The Kansas senator who helped pass the ADA

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KC TODAY 72425 THU_Traveling hours to see a doctor in Kansas

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KC TODAY WED_072325_How the funding clawback hurts rural public media stations

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KC TODAY 072225_Will the U.S. privatize the Postal Service

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KC TODAY - 072125 - MON_ What the federal funding clawback means for KCUR

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KC TODAY - 071825 - FRI - AI-aided art will greet Kansas City streetcar riders

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KC TODAY THU 071725_Can Kansas City's transportation death spiral be fixed

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KC TODAY WED 071625_Multibillion-dollar Panasonic plant opens in Kansas

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KCTODAY TUE 71525_Trump's budget may shutter this Missouri environmental lab

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KC TODAY 071425 - MON_-How Missouri governors 'quietly dismantled' an ethics watchdog

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KC TODAY - 071125 - FRI - Amateur archaeologists are digging into Kansas history

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KCTODAY THU 071025_Why Jackson County is having a recall vote on Frank White Jr

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KCTODAY WED 070925_The Overland Park teen fighting to protect cancer funding_-18

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KC TODAY TUE 070825_Missouri activists step up to comfort ICE detainees_-18

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KC TODAY - 070725 - MON_Missouri's governor cut funding to Kansas City arts groups

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KC TODAY 070325 -thu_The immigrants who brought soccer to Kansas City

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KC TODAY WED - 070225_Preserving Missouri's Night Sky

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KC Today - 070125 - TUE_Kansas City's IRS workers struggle after cuts

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KC TODAY - 063025 - Kansas City Chiefs and Royals Play Hard to Get

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KC TODAY - 062725 - FRI_ Trans kids grapple with bans on their medical care

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KC TODAY_062625 - THU_Giving Kansas City kids a career boost

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KC TODAY - 062525 - WED_Investigating the cost of KCPD car crashes_-18

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KC TODAY - 062425 - TUE_A Kansas City nurse's Middle East experience

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KC TODAY - 062315 - MON_Sen. Josh Hawley has concerns about the 'Big Beautiful Bill'

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KC TODAY - 062025 - FRI_Gay rights activism at Kansas colleges

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KC Today - 061925 - THU - What has Kansas City's reparations commission done_-18

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KC TODAY - 061825 - WED - Reclaiming Native land

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KC TODAY - 061725 - TUE_A threat to journalism in Kansas City

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KC TODAY - 061625 - MON - DOGE hits the Labor Department in Kansas City

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KC TODAY - 061325 - FRI - 'No Kings' protests in Kansas City

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KC TODAY - 061225 - THU - How Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' could hurt Kansans on Medicaid

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KC TODAY - 061125 - WED - 'Dire conditions' at a Kansas ICE prison

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KC TODAY - 061025 - TUE - More Kansas City gardeners should embrace native plants_-18

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KC TODAY 060925 - MON_Fear in Kansas City's immigration courts

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KC TODAY - 060525 - FRI - 50 years of Kansas City PrideFest

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KC TODAY - 060525 - THU ___- Will Missouri protect Bayer from pesticide lawsuits?

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KC TODAY - 060425 - WED_A Pothole Solution

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KC TODAY - 060325 - TUE__Patricia Prewitt walks free

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KC TODAY - 060225 - MON - Kansas City's stadium saga heads to high-stakes special session

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KC TODAY - 053025 - FRI - Ivanhoe residents work toward change

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KC TODAY_052925 - Thu - Abortion access halted again in Missouri

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KC TODAY 052825 - WED - ICE detains Kansas City, Kansas, crime victim

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KC TODAY - 052725 - TUE - John Patterson_-18

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KC TODAY - 052325 - FRI - _The lesbian publishing company that started in Kansas City

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KC TODAY - 052225 - THU_Kansas City music stores get down to brass taxes

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KC TODAY - 052125 - WED__Freedom arrives for one Missouri inmate

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KC TODAY - 052025 - TUE - Farming morels in Missouri

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KC TODAY - 051925 - MON - Mario Vasquez takes the reins in Kansas City

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KC TODAY _051625 - FRI - Missouri Republicans defy voters on abortion and sick leave

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KC today - 051525 - Kansas colleges could lose years of progress on diversity

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KC TODAY - 051425 - WED_The personal toll of Trump's transgender military ban

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KC Today - 051325 - Highway 71 _mixdown

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KC TODAY - 050925 - MON -Josh Hawley's own brand of populism

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KC TODAY -050925 - FRI - He visited his grandpa's grave in Mexico. The U.S. blocked his return

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KC Today - 050825 - Virtual teachers are filling more classes in Kansas City, Kansas

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KC Today - 050725 - Federal government cuts are hitting Kansas City's HUD

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KC TODAY - 050625 - TUE -What federal cuts to public media mean for Kansas City

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KC TODAY -_050325 -MON_A preview of Missouri lawmakers' final weeks in session

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KC TODAY_050224 - FRI_A 'Star Wars' museum that's not far, far away

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KC Today - 05012025 - Many Kansas City kids could lose free school meals

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KC Today - 043025 - Why some Midwesterners are renting backyard chickens_mixdown

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KC TODAY - 042925 - TUE - Is KCPD making progress on cases of missing Black people

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KC TODAY - 042825 - MON_-