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Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• More Akin abortion remarks stir criticism
• Sweetener company CEO headed back to Missouri
• Schaefer, Still square off in debate on MU campus
• McCaskill says she raised $5.8M for Mo. Senate bid

Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin is again drawing attention for comments about abortion — this time, for saying that doctors are "giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant."

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill says she raised about $5.8 million for her re-election campaign over the past three months.

Republican challenger Todd Akin is going on the offensive against Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill by claiming her husband's businesses profited from the federal stimulus act.

Akin began running a TV ad Monday claiming "the stimulus made McCaskill rich." In an interview with The Associated Press, Akin noted that the 2009 stimulus law funded a federal program for low-income housing that directed about $1 million to corporations affiliated with McCaskill's husband.