Did Sen. Chris Koster Plant a Fake Candidate for Missouri Attorney General?
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April 1, 2008
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Kansas City leaders may have shuttered the brothels and torn down the stockyards that once defined the town--and the mobsters may have blown themselves up in disco bombings back in the '70s--but there are still plenty of stories to tell...
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