Tagged: john brunner

Regional news from the KBIA newscast including:

• Missouri's tax revenues ahead of projections, up 3.4 percent.
• Kirksville adopts new weather alert system.
• John Brunner airs first critical TV ad in Missouri GOP Senator bid.
• Former MU student sentenced to probation, community service in racial slur incident.
  

U.S. Senate candidate John Brunner has launched the first critical TV ad in Missouri's Republican Senate primary.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is in Missouri hoping to help a man with a similar background score a similar victory.

Johnson was attending a fundraiser and campaign event Wednesday for John Brunner, one of three prominent Republicans seeking to challenge Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill in November.

A Brunner spokesman said the campaign hopes to raise $50,000 from the fundraiser in suburban St. Louis.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is wading into Missouri's Republican Senate primary by endorsing St. Louis businessman John Brunner.

Two of the three Republican candidates running to challenge Senator Claire McCaskill in November squared off Tuesday in the first of what is sure to be several debates before the primary election.