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GOLDMAN, Mo. (AP) -- Gov. Mel Carnahan, the Democratic candidate in one of the most hotly contested U.S. Senate races in the country, was killed when the plane shuttling...
...twist in the aftermath of Gov. Mel Carnahan's death and his widow's pledge...late husband outpolls Ashcroft. Mel Carnahan's death in a plane crash last...Day, Tony Wyche, spokesman for Mel Carnahan's campaign, said Sunday. Some...
ANSWERS: 1. Sue, the Tyrannosaurus rex. 2. Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, whose widow Jean was appointed to his Senate seat. 3. Rick Rockwell, of "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire." 4. Alias and...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Senate race between the late Gov. Mel Carnahan and Republican Sen. John Ashcroft remains extremely close little more than a week after Carnahan's death in a plane crash...
GOLDMAN, Mo. -- It took only nine seconds for the plane carrying Gov. Mel Carnahan to a campaign rally to plummet about 3,200 feet before disappearing from radar, investigators said. The crash came only minutes...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri's new governor has decided to appoint the widow of Mel Carnahan as senator if the late governor receives more votes than Sen. John Ashcroft in the Nov. 7 election, The Associated Press has...
...Ashcroft conceded the Senate election to the late Gov. Mel Carnahan, paving the way for his widow to assume the seat...Ashcroft said in an emotional speech Wednesday. Mel Carnahan -- whose named remained on the ballot after being killed...
...Missouri's next U.S. senator in place of her husband, Mel Carnahan, who posthumously won the Nov. 7 election. The appointment...Missouri Board of State Canvassers certified Democrat Mel Carnahan's victory over Republican Sen. John Ashcroft. Jean...
...funds already had been spent. People were waiting. Political careers were at stake. Last Monday, Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan was carrying out a common practice when he boarded a twin-engine Cessna 335 in St. Louis. Locked in a tight race...
...Ashcroft," he said. Ashcroft, 58, was a two-term governor of Missouri before he went to the Senate in 1994. Gov. Mel Carnahan challenged him for re-election in one of the feature Senate contests of 2000, but was killed in an airplane crash...