Nixon activates National Guard to northwest Missouri

Thursday, June 24, 2010 | 7:21 p.m. CDT; updated 8:31 a.m. CDT, Friday, June 25, 2010

KANSAS CITY — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced plans to send state National Guard troops to flood-weary northwest Missouri to deal with additional flooding that could result from an Army Corps of Engineers' water release out of an upstream reservoir.

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