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Missouri voters recently gave lawmakers more power over state spending decisions. Yet there's uncertainty at the Missouri Capitol over whether it's OK for lawmakers to actually start using those new powers.

An initiative petition that sought to qualify an early voting measure for the Missouri ballot included the supposed signatures of dead people among other potentially fraudulent names, according to a report from state's top election official.

Missouri’s judges could be due a multi-million-dollar pay increase if their counterparts in the federal government are able to win a court case seeking a retroactive pay hike.

An initiative seeking to raise Missouri’s minimum wage is a step closer to making the ballot after a state judge upheld the summary that voters would see.

Livingston County prosecutor Adam Warren has become the second Republican to enter the attorney general’s race in Missouri and pledged to fight against the federal health care law signed by President Barack Obama.

Missouri’s attorney general warned Wednesday that a state fund for disabled workers is on financial life support and suggested it should either be abolished or revamped so that it can be replenished by larger surcharges on businesses.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon gives his state of the state address Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, during a joint session of the House and Senate at the capitol in Jefferson City, Mo.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon tried to make sure everyone knows he likes job growth, be it 800 workers promised by global technology company IBM or three additional employees at a rural sawmill.

The sign outside the doorway of Missouri Capitol Room 306 was both prominent and bold.

Employees at the Missouri Department of Mental Health have racked up excessive amounts of overtime — sometimes working weeks of double shifts without days off — because the department lacked policies to limit overtime hours, a state audit found.

Jay Nixon made lots of promises while running for Missouri governor. Many remain unfulfilled at the midpoint of his term — supplanted by economic realities that have led Nixon to define success as abiding by the spirit of his campaign theme.