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Creating jobs. Everyone at the Missouri Capitol says they want to do it. But how, exactly, would they do so?

Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder has received a $300,000 gift form former Gov. Matt Blunt — just in time for the new political year.

Fewer than 50,000 votes separated Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill and Republican incumbent Jim Talent in Missouri’s 2006 U.S. Senate race — a difference of only about a dozen votes from each precinct. McCaskill won.

Former Missouri Republican Party Chairwoman Ann Wagner, left, launched a campaign Monday to become head of the Republican National Committee.

Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder's attendance at a Republican Governors Association conference is the surest sign yet that he plans to challenge of Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon in 2012.

The caller ID displayed "ST LUKES EAST," making it appear as though someone at St. Luke's hospital in Lee's Summit was dialing the line.

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is “delighted” the Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit from a man detained in 2003 as a potential material witness in a terrorism case.

In this photo taken Nov. 9, 2010, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft delivers a commemorative speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., during the 20th anniversary celebration of the "Breakthrough" sculpture by artist Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill. President Ronald Reagan dedicated the sculpture on the Westminster College campus, marking the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall the year before.

Like children anticipating an especially good Christmas, Missouri business groups are eagerly compiling their wish lists following an election that gave Republicans their largest legislative majorities in about a century.

A coalition of 13 states has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold an Arizona law penalizing businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

Television repairman Josh Vannoy, who frequently hears complaints from customers about this year’s political advertisements, stands next to a television showing a political ad at his store in Sedalia. Ads in U.S. House and Senate races have risen 50 percent; in gubernatorial races, they’ve more than doubled, according to figures from the Wesleyan Media Project, which analyzes ads.