Judges in the 22nd Judicial Circuit have retained a former assistant St. Louis circuit attorney who also served 25 years on the bench as their attorney during the Missouri attorney general’s legal battle to remove St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner from office.
Booker Shaw, now of the Thompson Coborn law firm, entered Thursday on behalf of the judges, who have been served subpoenas and notified that they may be asked to testify against the city’s top prosecutor.
Judge Bryan Hettenbach…
Centene’s decision to use a new standard for charitable giving, which took effect last year, is expected to have a big impact on St. Louis-area organizations.
A Husch Blackwell Strategies lobbyist who previously worked for SSM Health and a Centene Corp. subsidiary has died.
Jessica Pabst, of Lake Saint Louis, unexpectedly died Wednesday, HBS said. It didn't give a cause and didn't immediately have her age.
"Jessica walked through life with a loving kindness that left everyone she encountered feeling more loved, appreciated, and cared for," HBS said. "She was smart in the office, relentless in the pursuit of her objectives and she leaves an unfillable…
St. Louis-based Procure by The Women’s Creative is opening its first Florida location, in Tampa's Hyde Park Village open-air mall.
The shop will create opportunities for Tampa-area women-owned, product-based businesses to showcase their products in this retail space, featuring a collection of gifts, accessories, home goods and skincare primarily from Florida-based companies.
Procure will collaborate with more than three dozen women-owned businesses to bring awareness to their brands and products…
The newly launched St. Louis startup includes founders who sold their last business to a publicly traded company. They're bullish about their new endeavor, with plans to rapidly grow the startup's team in the coming months.
Mirroring the overall real estate market, preliminary assessed values for residential real estate in St. Louis County have increased significantly since 2021, the last time values were calculated.
The office of the Missouri attorney general has decided not to pursue action against the man behind St. Louis’ largest Kickstarter campaign on record.
Thousands of backers wanted a magnet-based "fort" during the pandemic. Nearly two years later, some of those Get the Fort customers are still waiting for their items.
St. Louis’ Conor Lewis is the founder of the business. The fort was supposed to be a toy that would give parents a break during the pandemic. It’s a magnetic foam system made…
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Wednesday asked a judge to set a June trial date in his case that seeks the ouster of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner.
The city of St. Charles has retained two law firms to represent it in an anticipated lawsuit against Ameren Missouri related to contamination of the city's water well fields.
Violent crimes within a one-mile radius of the Arch have seen a sharp uptick since 2019, while arrests in the same area have declined. One consulting firm says that this, in part, could keep Arch traffic down from pre-pandemic levels.
Ellen Piazza attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and worked in kitchens in Key West, Florida, and Charlotte, North Carolina, before returning home to St. Louis to take an adjunct professor job at St. Louis Community College. Twenty-one years later, she's leading the program and has trained nationally acclaimed chefs.
Missouri loses $1.35 billion in economic growth and $280 million in tax revenue due to child care instability. We must do more, say St. Louis business leaders.
Bob Clark, Maxine Clark, Alison Ferring, Leslie Gill, Jason Hall, Deborah Patterson, Anthony “Tony” Thompson
Jeff Haug will lead the Mehlville School District as its new superintendent, the district announced Monday.
Haug currently serves as chief operations officer for Special School District of St. Louis County, where he has worked since 2020.
The Mehlville district's Board of Education unanimously voted March 10 in favor of Haug's selection, according to a press release.
Haug, who will take his new post July 1, succeeds Chris Gaines, who has been Mehlville's superintendent for the past eight years…
Freddie Mac has launched a new program designed to address homeownership gaps in underserved areas of 10 cities nationwide, including St. Louis, by offering funding toward down payments for first-time Black and Latino homebuyers.
Graybar, the Clayton-based distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products, surpassed $10 billion in net sales last year for the first time, while also racking up record profit.
City officials hope to raise private capital designed to continue Mayor Tishaura Jones’ economic justice action plan even after federal pandemic dollars run out in 2026. The initiative was announced Tuesday, along with a series of other projects that will spend the pandemic funds in historically disinvested areas of the city, especially north St. Louis.
Troy Doyle, a former lieutenant colonel with the St. Louis County Police Department, was named the new police chief of Ferguson Tuesday night.
Only KSDK was there as Doyle was approved by a unanimous vote by the city council at a public meeting Tuesday night. He begins his new role as chief on April 1.
Former Ferguson Police Chief Frank McCall resigned last month. Captain Harry Dilworth has been filling in as interim chief since Feb. 24.
McCall was Ferguson's seventh police chief in as many years…
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