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KCUR Morning News 8-14-09

By Maria Carter

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Kansas City, MO – Kansas City council members who wanted to restore limits on family volunteer service at City Hall couldn't muster the votes to override Mayor Mark Funkhouser's veto yesterday.

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has cleared the Department of Natural Resources in an ethics complaint over the delayed release of an E-Coli report from the Lake of the Ozarks.

A third and final defendant has pleaded guilty to a crime so outrageous it struck veteran Kansas City area investigators with disbelief.

Funding uncertainty has prompted the Kansas Department of Transportation to put off building a nearly 30 million dollar interchange on Kansas highway 7 in the Kansas City area.

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