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The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show: Video: Missouri’s Eric Schmitt says the Protect College Sports Act is in the red zone

NY Post: Schmitt says Trump “thrilled … this (Protect College Sports Act) is important to him”

The Hill: Hawley to push GOP officeholders, candidates to sign ‘Declaration for Life’

KFVS (Cape Girardeau): Hawley calls for privacy protections with license plate readers: ‘You’ve got a right not to be tracked’

P-D: Illegal alien sentenced in St. Louis for $36M Ponzi scheme that included Travis Kelce (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

CNN: Man sentenced in $35 million Ponzi scheme that bilked dozens, including Travis Kelce

KMOV (St. Louis): Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce named as victim in multi-million dollar fraud case; U.S. Rep. Sam Graves asked judge for leniency for illegal immigrant involved in $30 million Ponzi scheme

Missouri Independent: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves urged leniency for Ponzi schemer who hired longtime consultant; Siddharth Jawahar agreed to pay Axiom Strategies $10,000 to secure a favorable newspaper article

KZRG (Joplin): Morning News Watch: Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Eric Brown on illegal migrants and Missouri commercial driver license (CDL) certifications

P-D’s Joe Holleman: Ed Martin defends Trump pardon process on ’60 Minutes’ segment (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Army Corps wraps up demolition of homes built on top of radioactive contamination near Coldwater Creek

Columbia Missourian: Ballot deadline looms as federal court hears map challenge

KC Star: Missouri’s map fight is back in court. But clerks say it’s too late (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

JCNT’s NT Daily with Erin Schrimpf: Missouri schools face funding questions, A–F grades delayed & Hoskins sued again

P-D: Ex-MoDOT supervisor accused of using state credit cards to make personal purchases; Artemus Jamal “AJ” Jackson – hired during Gov. Nixon’s administration – purchased cologne and electronics with state money, staged a burglary (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Watches, cologne, mowers: Former MoDOT supervisor accused in $80K fraud scheme

P-D: Kehoe orders limits on license plate reading cameras in Missouri (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D: Former St. Charles County police employee abused Flock system 220+ times, charges say (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Flock cameras to get guardrails in Missouri

Columbia Missourian: Gov. Kehoe orders privacy protections for use of Flock police cameras

Missourinet: Gov. Kehoe orders restrictions on Flock Safety cameras until Legislature addresses the privacy issues

Nexstar (Fox 2 St. Louis, Fox4 KC, KOLR 10): Protesters seek moratorium on data centers during rally at Missouri Capitol

Columbia Missourian: Opponents of data centers host rally at Missouri Capitol

KC Star: At Missouri Capitol, protesters call for data center moratorium and privacy rules (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Data center protesters fill Missouri Capitol seeking a statewide construction moratorium

Brownfield Ag News: Gov. Mike Kehoe leads trade mission to Italy

Columbia Missourian: State Reps. John Martin (R-Columbia) and George Hruza (R-St. Louis) host annual Missouri Jewish American Heritage Month Celebration

The Beacon (Kansas City); Rural Missouri families face longer drives, riskier births as maternity wards vanish; doulas seek more state spending

JCNT: Central Missouri prepares for measles amid statewide health alert

The Beacon (Kansas City): Missouri train ride led to KC-area measles case that’s exposed 250 people so far

The Examiner (Jackson County) op-ed: Ryan Johnson: A better way forward for Medicare

Missouri Independent op-ed: Retired lawyer Daniel R. Schramm: Supreme Court decisions put two questions back where they belong: with voters

Columbia Missourian columnist/American Atheist Missouri State Director David Rosman: Vote “No” on Amendments 3, 7 and 8

P-D letter: O’Fallon man says Post-Dispatch should not have printed op-ed from Denny Hoskins (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D letter: St. Louis man wants Denny Hoskins to leave Missouri (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Yesterday’s (Wednesday, September 16, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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