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Republican Sarah Steelman has loaned her U.S. Senate campaign an additional $100,000 for the final couple of weeks before Missouri's primary elections.

Former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is backing Sarah Steelman in Missouri's Republican U.S. Senate primary.

Steelman touted Palin's endorsement as a potential boon in a GOP primary in which all three main candidates have been trying to appeal to conservatives.

Palin's statement praised Steelman as a "commonsense conservative woman" who has stood up to the political establishment "to stop out of control spending and the destructive debt it leaves in its wake."

Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri has officially begun her re-election campaign, the first and only Democrat so far in a contest that has attracted several Republicans.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Missouri House passes $24 billion state education budget. 
• Missouri House panel endorses legislation making it a crime for federal officials to enforce the 2009 federal healthcare overhaul in the state. 
• Missouri schools adjusting curricula to meet national standards. 
• National Tea Party group endorses state Treasurer Sarah Steelman. 
  

A national tea party group has endorsed former state Treasurer Sarah Steelman in Missouri's Republican U.S. Senate primary. But numerous Missouri tea party groups say they are not taking sides in the race.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's administration reports three fatalities from Tuesday's severe storms . 
• Republican US Senate candidate Sarah Steelman appoints speaker of the Missouri house as her campaign chairman.
• Gov. Jay Nixon releases more than $5 million for education funding.