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The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

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Mpiv ay'-r JILL TOYOSMfSA THE KANSAS CITY STAR BOl Doumbia a youngster from the AMcm nation of Mall hat a reconstructed fact and nw life thanks to efforts (peer-bMdd by Tammy Neblock-Bclitift (left) and Abigail Hayo A mission of hope By AARON BARNHART Th Kansas City Star omefoing that probably happened since you were a kid is taking place at 9 ajn Friday All across Kansas City television stations will be signing off the air The thing is if everything (a)For Pbm' mweftom wwit even notice Aaron Six decades of broadcasting Barnhart analog TV signals the go to method first demonstrated by tvtMmxom Philo Farnsworth in 1928 will come to an end as the TV stations obey foe national deadline for ending analog transmissioa Technically foe stations have until 1159 pjn Friday and one station was given until July 12 However the dtyli broadcasters reached a mu-tual agreement to switch off at 9 am in order to handle customer complaints during the daytime Each of the stations is required by law to have phone banks at the ready when it shuts down analog broadcasting KE DIGITAL AM Two area women expect to spend years helping a vfliage In Africa And their dreams all started with Bol Doumbia a 7-year-okf whose face was disfigured by a targe tumor Hayo said airway would be Hocked soon and there was really little we could do for him in Two days alter meeting Boi at ByANNSMVAK ballooned and stretched across one foe clinic Hayo and Neblock-Th KaruM CXy star gjje Hjg jaw was dislodated and Beime flew back to Kansas Gty on ThweEng on medical missions the few teeth he had seemed to a mission to save hint for more than a decade Abigail dangle down by his neck- III Hayo and surgeon Tunmy Ne- "Wfe were in Said Hayo a First they contacted US Rep Uode-Bdme of Kansas City volunteer with foe locally based Dennis Moore to help get Boi an thought they had seen it all when it Medical MissknttRmndmQnBol emergency visa to United came to indigent children crying and then we all started States Then rme day last yeai 7-year- crying And when NeUock-Beitne got old Boi Doumbia walked into their That day in that clinic foe two back to work she shoved a picture clinic fathe African nation of Mali women decided to use every bit of ofBoft Grain front of a fellow sur-Boi was struggling to breathe muscle and influence they could geon Chris Larsen as he operated Vi life His face was barely identifiable muster to feavt it little boyk BCTEIT 3 taken over by a giant tumor that didn't have much SEEksSION AM -vVv Ex-lawmaker McCarthy has flNSiClTyCOHl Condolences stick follow at From a computer or yourmoMephone: Cfld(On KansesCltyxoffl foe Si6" 'i I Photos and video- from the minicamp today I A photo gallery of 'Italian Gardens which Is making a comeback as a take-out place I The latest on Vf Carrie Prejeanand more celeb news In the Stargazing blog The retired UA House member from the KC area also suffers from a bipolar disorder and lives In a nursing facility By STEVE KRASKE Tte Kansas City Star Former US Rcpi KAien McOfthy who represented foe Kansas City area in Congress for a decade is suffering from an advanced form of disease her family saidVfednesday MORE McCarthy 62 has lived in -a IQCAL Johnsmi County nursing facility UC1AJ(7 for about a month She ts NtVYb fortable mid comforted by foe A4 people who care so much about pifiac who she is what she stands fiw hoflf-g-n and how foe test of her life can "JJ be led with some measure of remedy Kace and accord- for deer to a family statement McCarthy who retired from Congress in is single and has no children Timothy Colley a family friend and Lauren McCarthy sistet have been ap- SEE MCCARTHY AM DC museum Security guardft tho-Holocaust Museum la klllod and the suspected gunman la hospitalized 1 1 t'V T-' Stv ntws urCM wasmngtoH Fhm its inctotknL the US Hokraust Memorial Mu- seum has brouit haters to its ouvkr oouuery i hcclatchy trisunS Police comforted an unMantlflad parson Wednesday in front of the But none succeeded in perpetual- Holocaust Memorial Museum after a gunman shot a security mg an act this extreme guard before being wounded by gunfire from other guards An 88-yearold gunman ndlh Vr -v olent and virulmitly and-Semitic taid-Vc The assailant was hospitalized in past walked into foe museum He fotally wounded a' security critkconditkmleaviiKbdundan' one of foe csitaTs most visited guard and sent tourists scrambling invrstigatkm by federaTjuid local sites On Wednesday atenxxm before he was shot by other security and began-shooting1 authorities officers SEE HOLOCAUST I AH The feds will limit executive pay at firms that took a -bailout A12 places two athletic officials on administrative leave B1 iCLAHmED CONKS saf mviiw 1 DEATHS A1B-1S LOTTERtESAB MOVIESTVIS MPRSVMW 1 0PINI0NA1MS PUZZLES B1ASSSS MPREVKW fTV SJMPREVKW iv I umuafii novia lritnmvBw imiwr aimi fwaui BiAMfMiniKCTBTv i iv MnnTisii I-KWrja-l JS fc i 1 -1 If I 1 i ftftWi I.

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