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P-D: Full coverage: Flooding in southeast Missouri

KMOV (St. Louis): Gov. Mike Kehoe praises first responders after historic flash flooding triggers hundreds of rescues

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KCTV: Missing children rescued in Kansas City amid World Cup crackdown on trafficking, crime; comments from AG Catherine Hanaway

KC Star: Kansas City woman accused of theft, wire fraud to obtain SNAP benefits; Viridiana Luna-Mejia arrested one day after ICE raid

TonysKansasCity.com: Kansas City La Migra crisis postscript: SNAP fraud suspect nabbed

Washington Missourian: Sen. Ben Brown (R-Washington) speaks at Amendment 5 town hall in Washington; comments from Rep. Bishop Davidson (R-Republic), Missouri Times publisher Scott Faughn

St. Joseph News-Press: Gov. Kehoe joins Van-Am to celebrate aerospace expansion

JCNT: Streamlined utility assistance process key to helping struggling Missourians

JCNT: State employee profile: Tyrone Thomason comes to Missouri PSC for data analysis, stays to help utility customers

P-D editorial: Amendment 5’s nightmare scenario (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

JCNT op-ed: Jefferson City Area Board of Realtors President Logan Gratz: Vote “No” on Amendments 4 and 5

SNL op-ed: City Utilities CEO: How City Utilities plans to protect customers from data center costs

P-D’s Bill McClellan: I tried getting plates for my new car. It didn’t go well (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

West Plains Daily Quill letter: Willow Springs sexagenarian opposes Amendment 5, cites info from Missouri Budget Project and “Missouri Retirement [sic] Teacher [sic] Association”

Yesterday’s (Saturday, July 11, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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