Elections

Republican Kenny Hulshof has introduced a new policy almost weekly since the start of the Missouri gubernatorial race, while Democrat Jay Nixon has stuck to three basic messages: the economy, health care and higher education.

The Jackson County Election Board has accused the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, of filing falsified registration forms. The election board is reporting 100 duplicate applications and 280 with fake information in Kansas City.

Republicans allege Democrat Barack Obama has close ties to an activist group accused of compiling fake registration forms.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke in Springfield on Friday, stressing that John McCain's campaign is trying to belittle Barack Obama instead of focusing on important issues.

Problems in the economy have overshadowed all other election issues.

Ethics, health care, the economy and highway funding were among the topics d’jour at the hour-long debate on Thursday in Kansas City.

Statehouse candidates in Boone County are weighing in on whether to rewrite a 1976 consumer protection law that AmerenUE has targeted as a barrier to financing a second nuclear power plant in Callaway County.

Between stumping in Liberty and Jefferson City, the Democratic vice presidential candidate spoke one-on-one with a Missourian reporter.

Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.

The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain despite differences with the Arizona senator on gun-show rules and campaign finance restrictions.

A teacher at a Kansas City charter school has been suspended after video of his public school students chanting praise of Barack Obama was posted on YouTube.

Democrat Judy Baker and Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer's joint appearance Monday at a community in Hallsville was the first since each won the August primary race in the 9th Congressional District.

Actors Aisha Tyler, Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel rallied at Lowry Mall on Saturday afternoon for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

The clash over Iraq was the most personal, and pointed, of the 90-minute debate between vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.

The Palin-Biden event Thursday night and the subsequent presidential debates will be important to their eventual decisions, the voters say.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Delaware Sen. Joe Biden will debate Thursday night at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Missourian recruited three undecided Columbia voters — Miguel Lopez, Keith Clark and Amy Davis — willing to let us watch and learn from them over the frenetic final weeks of the campaign season. We’ll check in with them from time to time to see what they’re reading, what they’re hearing and what they’re thinking.

The city is asking for almost $40 million in bond money to replace old mains and make other improvements to the city's water system.

Since 2003, Republicans have controlled both chambers of the state legislature — and Democrats are determined to narrow these margins in the Nov. 4 elections.

Congressman Kenny Hulshof, Republican candidate for governor, voted no in Monday's U.S. House of Representatives vote on the $700 billion plan to bailout the U.S. financial system, which ultimately failed by a vote of 228-205.