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A Rosemont, Illinois-based label printing company is closing its plant in St. Louis County and terminating nearly four dozen workers there.

If telemarketers haven't been replaced by robots, then I am not betting against the lawyers, either.

Missourians spend billions every year in pursuit of instant riches. They buy lottery tickets, play casino games and dab bingo cards. And increasingly in recent years, they play games of questionable legality in convenience stores, truck stops and small gaming parlors. Everyone involved in the industry thinks people would spend more, if given the chance. None of the players pursuing those new markets wants anyone else sitting in on their game. Major professional league teams, now banding together…

The firm named four new partners, effective Jan. 1, who will join the rest of the partner group in guiding the firm and identifying new opportunities in addition to developing and maintaining client relationships, according to the firm.

A panel seems poised Thursday to recommend that bilingual signage be installed in downtown Clayton the next time the current signs need to be replaced, an official said.

Block founder and CEO Jack Dorsey told staff Thursday that job cuts were coming, as the firm implements a cap on the number of employees, with growth failing to keep up with headcount.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Monday signed two bills regulating short-term rentals such as those found on Airbnb.

A Florissant man was charged with driving drunk in connection with a crash that left a 7-year-old boy dead and his parents injured. Now, the boy's parents are suing the bar that they claim knowingly overserved the driver alcohol just hours before. According to the lawsuit filed Thursday in the St. Louis Circuit Court, Jared, Carri and Zachary Allan were driving home to Kansas City on Aug. 12 after taking a family trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. At about 3:30 a.m., the family was traveling…

Missouri State Treasurer Vivek Malek is refusing to turn over information about a state-sponsored education savings plan to an investment company he accuses of having questionable ties to China and an anti-Israel bias. Malek expressed his concerns about Morningstar in a letter to the company refusing its request for information about MOST 529, the Missouri-sponsored savings plan that allows customers to invest in education, apprenticeships and retirement. Morningstar is a financial services company…

It might be a long time — if ever — before the club's players rank among the area's highest paid pro athletes. Here's why.

MGP Ingredients launched a succession plan with the planned retirement of its CEO at year's end. His successor will come from a St. Louis-based subsidiary.

Three companies in the same downtown St. Louis office building have renewed long-term leases over the past year, choosing to stay in their current offices and footprints after examining options elsewhere.

Washington University has named a leader of a new $15 million drug development accelerator that seeks to commercialize drug candidates from the university’s research efforts.

Chesterfield-based Bunge (NYSE: BG) has changed the country in which it incorporates its business.

A St. Louis-based packaging manufacturer has named a new leader as its top executive retires.

A St. Louis-based law firm has elected four new income shareholders, including three in the St. Louis and Clayton offices.

The new store will become the latest St. Louis-area beverage brand to land in one of the region's most up-and-coming entertainment destinations.

The job market may be softening, but the battle for talent remains intense in Missouri. Why aren't high-profile layoffs turning the tide? New job creation data provides a hint.

A property tax freeze for St. Louis County seniors became law Wednesday after the deadline for County Executive Sam Page to sign or veto the bill expired. The bill will freeze property tax increases for homeowners 67 and over whose homes are worth $550,000 or less. It passed the St. Louis County Council on Oct. 17. The county's revenue department will now have to develop the specifics of the plan. According to the state law allowing the tax freeze, the new program goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2024. Page…

One of St. Louis’ biggest real estate agencies is officially expanding into Kansas City by merging with an affiliated company there.