election 2012

State House primary candidates for mid-Missouri's 44th and 47th Districts debated last night at a League of Women Voters forum at the Columbia Public…

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill garnered some unwanted attention last year when she paid about $320,000 in overdue taxes and penalties on an airplane. As it turns out, her three leading Republican opponents also have paid penalties for late taxes. Documents obtained by The Associated Press and reviewed online show that St. Louis businessman John Brunner, Congressman Todd Akin and former state Treasurer Sarah Steelman all paid late taxes on vehicles or real estate in recent years. Records also show that Brunner's business of Vi-Jon Inc. was delinquent on taxes in Missouri and Tennessee. All of the taxes ultimately appear to have been paid. The Republican Senate candidates generally owed smaller amounts than McCaskill did on the airplane. In some cases, their late penalties were only several dollars. Follow St. Louis Public Radio on Twitter: @stlpublicradio

The new 47th Missouri House district, which includes part of Boone County, may finally have a Republican nominee. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Mitch…

Presumptive GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney didn’t mince words at a campaign stop in St. Louis on Thursday. Romney addressed several hundred supporters at Production Products, a military equipment supplier in north St. Louis County. The former governor railed against the Obama Administration for “undermining the free-enterprise system and over-regulating businesses." He said the President wasn’t up to the task of solving the economic crisis, all the while recklessly expanding the reach of government.

You have probably heard the statistic: Missouri has the lowest cigarette tax in the nation – just 17 cents a pack, compared to the national average of…

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon raised $1.7 million this past quarter, helping build a campaign account of more than $6 million for his re-election bid.Nixon, a…

Less than one-half of 1 percent of Missouri's registered voters participated in the Republican caucuses that served as the first step in the presidential…

On the day Rick Santorum dropped out of the presidential race, Ron Paul — not presumptive frontrunner Mitt Romney — has stolen the show at the do-over…

Columbia public schools are 7-and-a-half million dollars richer after voters approved a 40-cent tax levy in Tuesday’s election.The increase will help the…

A Missouri judge has dealt a setback to supporters of a ballot proposal that would limit interest rates on payday loans. Cole County Circuit Judge Dan…