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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks in October during a lecture series at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. The Supreme Court will join Congress and the president next year in cutting costs to reduce the federal deficit, Roberts said last week in his year-end report.

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.

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.

President Barack Obama granted a recess appointment to James Cole, a Bryan Cave partner who was nominated to become deputy attorney general.

Newly elected state Rep. John Rizzo, left, shares a laugh with his father, Jackson County Legislative Chairman Henry Rizzo, right, at a meeting of the Legislature on Dec. 6. Also shown is Legislator James Tindall Sr. John Rizzo eked out the narrowest of victories over Will Royster in the August Democratic primary for a Kansas City legislative seat. Now Royster is taking his fight to the Missouri House, where he has urged its incoming leader to investigate the election.

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With growth over the 2000s, St. Charles County is likely to gain representatives in the state Capitol.

President Barack Obama signs an $858 billion bill extending for two years Bush-era tax cuts, with Vice President Joe Biden, left, members of Congress and administration officials in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 17.

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves announces apportionment totals Tuesday in Washington, D.C. and the states that gained and lost seats in the House of Representatives. Missouri will lose a congressional seat for the first time since 1980.

A Democratic U.S. representative is opposing President Barack Obama’s nominee to a judgeship in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, left, has taken issue with Judge John Ross’ handling of a fire department case.