The St. Louis university is one of 45 under scrutiny for using a program to help students obtain a Ph.D. that allegedly "limits eligibility based on the race of participants."
Michael Qualizza, majority owner of the Last Hotel STL at 1501 Washington Ave. in Downtown West, said the hotel is under contract to a Midwest-based hospitality group.
Since Ron Kruszewski became CEO, net revenue has increased from $110 million to $4.9 billion and assets under management from $10 billion to $501 billion. Along the way, those amounts have doubled every few years.
Mallinckrodt PLC, the Irish pharmaceutical company with its U.S. headquarters in Hazelwood, has agreed to merge with drug maker Endo Inc. in a cash and stock transaction that values the combined pharmaceutical business at $6.7 billion.
In a year when the metropolitan area added 6,420 people to the region, St. Louis city had a net loss of 3,077 people, mostly due to domestic migration.
Build-A-Bear, the St. Louis-based chain of retail stores where customers can make their own stuffed toys, is expanding its presence at a growing entertainment center in Florida.
Danish Nagda describes himself as a reluctant entrepreneur. A physician by training, Nagda assumed he would spend his professional life as a clinician and was on that path as an ENT resident at Washington University School of Medicine. Then, life presented him with a situation that would alter his personal and professional trajectory — and has the potential to change the health care industry at large.
“My dad had a heart attack in his 50s, then became bed-bound with heart failure and died at…
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe is weighing in publicly on House Bill 495, which calls for the state takeover of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, for the first time since it passed both houses of the legislature.
As members of the Missouri Legislature paused for spring break, they joined Kehoe on the north lawn of the Capitol to celebrate advancing what they called a common-sense conservative agenda.
"I've seen men and women in this building decide that what's right for Missourians is what…
The Missouri House on Thursday voted to repeal a utility consumer protection law passed by voters almost 50 years ago.
The bill that originated in the state Senate drew bipartisan support and opposition on the 96-44 vote, with 20 Democrats joining 76 Republicans to support it and 23 Republicans lining up with 21 Democrats to oppose it. Three Democratic members voted “present.”
With the vote, the bill became the third measure to clear both chambers this session.
While the bill makes a variety…
A new St. Louis-based venture that aims to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help protect crops emerged this week from stealth mode, as it announced it has signed technology partners and investors.
Edward Jones will lay off some administrators of its home office team in the St. Louis area, but Managing Partner Penny Pennington said there isn’t a specific number or timeline.
A developer is bringing its business model of luxury short-term rehabilitation to the St. Louis region with a $22 million rehab facility that organizers say will look and feel more like a resort.
A pharmaceutical packaging business that changed ownership last fall plans to close a St. Louis-area plant this spring, laying off all employees there.
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