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Missouri kicks off tax-free weekend

Missouri’s tax-free weekend draws shoppers, boosts economy

Missouri’s tax-free weekend kicked off early Friday morning, where shoppers took advantage of no sales tax on specific items.

KMBC on MSN · 20h

Missouri's 2025 back-to-school tax-free weekend starts Aug. 1. Here's what qualifies

Back-to-school supplies are crowding aisles at many stores. Keep in mind that Missouri's back-to-school sales tax holiday by law begins on the first Friday in August, and continues through the following Sunday. This year's event starts Aug. 1.

The Kansas City Star on MSN · 2d

These clothes and school supplies are tax-free in Missouri for this one weekend

Anyone can buy tax-free items during the weekend in Missouri stores, even if they aren’t Missouri residents. Since Kansas does not have a tax-free weekend, people living there can shop at Missouri stores and get their items tax-free — as can residents in bordering states like Iowa, Illinois and Kentucky.

Texas, Missouri and lightning

Axios on MSN · 22h

The longest lightning strike ever recorded stretched from Texas to Missouri

A lightning strike that stretched from Texas to Missouri in 2017 was recently certified as the longest single lightning flash in recorded history. The strike stretched a distance that would take nearly nine hours to drive.

CBS News on MSN · 1d

Lightning "megaflash" recognized as new world record

A lightning flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 is recognized as being the longest horizontal distance.

Dallas Morning News on MSN · 1d

Massive lightning bolt from Texas to Missouri breaks record for world’s longest flash

A massive bolt of lightning that flashed across the sky from Texas to Missouri has captured a new world record. The 515-mile bolt stretched from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., a roughly eight-hour distance by car,

Missouri Senate leader says special session is ‘likely’ to redraw congressional map

Momentum is building for a special session of the Missouri Legislature to redraw the state’s eight congressional districts ...

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Missouri Latest State to Weigh House District Gerrymandering Ahead of Midterms

Missouri looks to follow the lead of Texas, California in considering gerrymandering U.S. House districts ahead of the 2026 ...

A traveling nurse from Missouri was killed in California, but motive remains a mystery

Ryan Christie, 47, a traveling nurse from Columbia, Missouri, was shot and killed in June in California. A man he had met ...

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Counties with the highest STI rates in Missouri

Missouri counties are seeing an increase in sexually transmitted infections, with Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis rates ...

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Missouri Facing Challenges to Keep Chiefs

The Kansas City Chiefs got home-field advantage better than any other team in the National Football League. Arrowhead has been a staple for the Chiefs for a lon ...

Missouri and Kansas seniors brace for fallout from Medicaid, SNAP cuts

The states have been studying how to support their aging populations, but now critical federal funds won’t be available to ...

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Missouri roommates charged with animal abuse after 9 dogs surrendered to law enforcement

Johnson County, Missouri, Circuit Court records filed on Thursday, July 31, indicate that Diana L. Collins, 78, and Kenneth J ...

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Evergy wins state approval to build natural gas plants and solar farms in Missouri and Kansas

Evergy announced last year its intent to build two gas plants in Kansas and one in Missouri, as well as one solar plant in ...

All Missouri metro areas saw unemployment increases in June

All eight of Missouri’s metropolitan areas experienced higher unemployment rates in June than a month before, according to ...

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