Could we get an actual "Latest News" section that picks up and lists the latest stories from all/selectively the other sections?

That way we can have both a streaming news section and regular news sections at the same time.

If there's a way to do that now, I couldn't figure it out ><

If you select List By in Config to be Articles, then it will display latest Articles regardless of which Category/Section they come from. With Headlines off you will get just a list of Articles, with headlines on you will get a single headline block with the latest articles.

The above appears in the Home page. The normal Pro_News Section/Category display is still available from menu.