It’s time to bet the over-under on how much will be spent this year on gambling ballot measures in Missouri.
A good mark might be $60 million. Online bookies poured $32 million so far into the Amendment 2 campaign to legalize sports betting, and a casino company grumpy about the deal countered with $14 million to defeat it.
The campaign for Amendment 5, to authorize a new casino at the Lake of the Ozarks, adds $9.4 million — bringing the total to more than $55 million.
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Another St. Louis restaurant has closed, after five years in business.
Sunny's Cantina, a Mexican-American restaurant at 6655 Manchester Ave. in the Franz Park neighborhood south of Forest Park, closed its doors Sunday.
"We have made the sudden and difficult decision to close our doors at Sunny’s Cantina," the owners had said in announcing the decision Friday on Facebook. "A month ago, we were planning on giving it another year at least, but it became clear these last few weeks that now is the…
Some of St. Louis' largest private companies, including Enterprise Mobility and Schnucks Markets Inc., also fall into another category: family-owned businesses.
Seven & i Holdings, the Japanese parent company of the Texas-based convenience store chain, said the hundreds of closures are due to underperformance caused by a variety of factors.
A Walgreens store in south St. Louis is closing next month.
The store at 4140 S. Broadway in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood will close Nov. 13.
Signs posted at the store said customer prescription records will be available at other Walgreens locations.
In a statement, a Walgreens spokesperson said "increased regulatory and reimbursement pressures are weighing on our ability to cover the costs associated with rent, staffing and supply needs."
The closure comes as multiple pharmacy chains in…
The move comes days after negotiations stalled between Boeing and 33,000 of its employees in the Pacific Northwest. Those workers have been on strike since mid-September.
If three Missouri Supreme Court judges had their way, voters would not have a say on whether to legalize abortion statewide on this year’s general election ballot. This November, those voters will have the option to use a power they’ve never used before.
One of Ameren Missouri’s largest coal plants will shut down Monday after more than 13 years of litigation over its failure to comply with federal clean air regulations.
The St. Louis-based electric utility will retire the Rush Island Energy Center, a two-unit 1,178-megawatt coal plant on the banks of the Mississippi River in Jefferson County, which operated for years in violation of the Clean Air Act.
Ameren, which serves 1.2 million customers in Missouri, announced in 2021 it would retire…
The firm's new partner parlayed his experience as an aircraft research and development engineer at McDonnell Douglas into a long career as an intellectual property attorney.
Canton, Michigan-based Victory Automotive Group is marking its entrance into the Missouri and St. Louis markets with the acquisition of a local dealership.
St. Louis Community College officials and contractors working on the $61.2 million Advanced Manufacturing Center and the $62.4 million Nursing and Health Sciences Center offered a sneak peek Thursday, about two to three months before they are completed.
Washington University’s proposed expansion to build athletic fields on the campus of Concordia Seminary in Clayton has drawn opposition from neighbors, many of whom are current or retired university employees.
Firefighters will be battling a fire for days after it started burning at a Blues Hog BBQ Sauce storage facility in New Haven in Franklin County, officials told KSDK on Thursday.
The New Haven-Berger Fire Protection District deputy chief said the facility in the 500 block of Orchard Street caught fire at around 5 a.m. Thursday. Crews reportedly got the call and were there within five minutes. The district was soon joined by four other fire departments to extinguish the blaze.
No injuries were…
Two new lawsuits have been filed against the former grocery chain. One suit, filed Monday by the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council, claims Fields Food hasn’t made payments on a $500,000 letter of credit. The other, filed Sept. 16 by Leaf Capital Funding LLC, says Fields Food has defaulted on an agreement for the purchase of software and scanning systems.
Regardless of the number of businesses, all Metro East county businesses were in similar industries, with retail leading the way in the largest counties.
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