Tobacco settlement filling budget holes

Sunday, March 27, 2005

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri spent nearly half of the money it received from a 1998 tobacco settlement last year to cover budget shortfalls, and plans to do so again this year, according to a report by the federal Government Accountability Office.

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