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    Baby bubbly despite 'bubble boy' disease VIDEO

    The first year of any baby's life is full of firsts. But 9-month-old Granton Bayless has blessed his parents with a second round of remarkable milestones as he tries to conquer a rare immune condition that has thousands of people praying for him and more than 2,000 willing to share their bone marrow.

    • Former senator Jesse Helms leaves his legacy

      - 07/04/2008 10:21 PM CDT

      RALEIGH, N.C. | Jesse Helms — the former senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art — died Friday. He was 86.

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    1988 FIREFIGHTERS' DEATHS

    Did pressure lead to lies and unjust convictions?

    Numerous witnesses say testimony was coerced, and another witness now says a guard who was working security at the explosion site implicated herself 20 years ago.

    CRIME SCENE KC | James Hart

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    INDEPENDENCE DAY

    Johnny Looney, 7 of Prairie Village showed his patriotism Saturday at the 2008 Villagefest in Prairie Village.
    SUSAN PFANNMULLER | SPECIAL TO THE STAR
    Johnny Looney, 7 of Prairie Village showed his patriotism Saturday at the 2008 Villagefest in Prairie Village.

    Cities throughout metro celebrate the Fourth

    For Portia Woods, the river was the place to be on Friday, but people had their choice of festivities across the metro area to celebrate the Fourth of July.

    THE ROYALS

    Rays rout Royals VIDEO

    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. | The Royals got their first look Friday at the Tampa Bay Rays and it was no holiday. This was an 11-2 knockout that suggests the hype surrounding these revamped Rays, at first glance, is not only justified but perhaps a bit understated.

    POLARIZED | Scott Canon


    Scott Canon Dancing in the midnight sun
    The Star's Scott Canon is chillin' for a few weeks with climate-watching scientists above the Arctic Circle in Alaska.

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    MAKING THE GRADE: KC AREA SCHOOL SCORES

    By district and school, both public and private: Results of state testing mandated by federal law, including demographic information, profiles and more.

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    ‘Hancock’ | 2 ½ stars VIDEO

    What does “Hancock” want to be when it grows up?

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    CLIMATE CHANGE


    G-8 climate scorecard shows US in last
    The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address global warming, a study has found.

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