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Update: According to final, unofficial results, Valentine bested the field with 43.1 percent of the vote. Lucas Kunce finished second, claiming 38 percent, while Spencer Toder finished a distant third with less than 5 percent of the vote. Original story follows....

Valentine is up 44% to Lucas Kunce's 38%, according to a compilation by the New York Times.

State Sen. Eric Burlison claimed the GOP nomination in the heavily Republican 7th Congressional District on Tuesday, beating beating out seven other contenders in the Republican primary.  He will take on Kristen Radaker-Sheafer, who emerged from the Democratic primary, and Libertarian Kevin Craig. The GOP race attracted a big field of candidates after the longtime […]

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St. Louis city voters decided on Proposition S, a bond issue that would allow the city to borrow $160 million to improve schools.

Anheuser-Busch heiress Trudy Busch Valentine won the Democratic nomination for Missouri’s open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday, defeating her closest rival, former Marine Lucas Kunce. With nearly all precincts reporting, Busch had won 43% of the vote, compared to 38% for Kunce. Throughout her campaign, Valentine has said working as a nurse and experiencing immense grief […]

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More than four million voters are registered to vote in Tuesday's election, but the Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said he doesn't expect half of those voters to head to the polls.

Trudy Busch Valentine has won the Missouri Democratic primary in the race to replace retiring Senator Roy Blunt.

Former Kansas City anchorman Mark Alford emerged from the crowded GOP primary in the 4th Congressional District on Tuesday. In the sprawling 24-county 4th District, Alfort bested his main rivals —  Sen. Rick Brattin, farmer Kalena Bruce and former Boone County Clerk Taylor Burks — in a race that saw massive outside spending from political […]

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Laura Keys is the projected winner of a special election to fill a vacant St. Louis City Alderman seat.

Senator Roy Blunt's retirement leaves an open seat in the U.S. Senate.

Page declared victory in a speech shortly after 9:30 p.m. "We've accomplished a great deal. Our economy is stronger and growing," he said.

Yikes. Deputy Boyd stayed for approximately two hours, during which time he made numerous inappropriate sexual statements and commands, which the district court found were neither invited nor consensual. For example, Deputy Boyd told Tyson that he and fellow officers had recently seen her at a restaurant, and he repeated sexual comments that the officers […]

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt defeated scandal-scarred former Gov. Eric Greitens and 19 others Tuesday in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush easily won the Democratic primary in the 1st Congressional District Tuesday, trouncing state Sen. Steve Roberts by more than 30 percentage points when the race was called shortly before 10 p.m.  In the heavily Democratic district, which includes all of the City of St. Louis and North St. Louis County, the […]

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Incumbent Sam Page beat back a challenge from attorney Jane Dueker in the Democratic primary for the office of St. Louis County executive, putting him a step closer to a full four-year term. Page won 63% of the vote, with Dueker taking 36%, according to St. Louis County results. In the Republican primary for the office, Katherine Pinner won a major upset over state Rep. Shamed Dogan. Pinner will face Page in the Nov. 8 general election. Page, county executive since 2019, made his reelection race…

During Tuesday's primary election, Missouri voters had the opportunity to choose Republican and Democrat nominees for state legislature seats.

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas — Voters in a landslide Tuesday defeated a proposed amendment to the Kansas constitution that would have stripped residents of abortion rights, defying polling and political observes who expected a close result. The ballot measure was failing by a 63-37 margin at 9:45 p.m. as voters responded to an intense and costly campaign marked […]

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