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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Nobody's in a huge hurry these days around the narrow crossing of State Line Road and 45th Street, where cars take turns at a four-way stop.

On the northwest corner, an upholsterer is closing in on 50 years of meticulously stitching new life into old furniture.

But for a time beginning in 2012, the world's largest news operations descended on these porches. They came to report on a grass-roots push to attract young, laptop-armed entrepreneurs to the fastest internet speeds anywhere.

It was the first neighborhood in the country to receive Google Fiber internet service....