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DHL, a global logistics and shipping business, is shutting down a facility in Maryland Heights and laying off 75 workers there. Here's where it's moving the work.

Hana Sharif, who has been artistic director of The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis for five years, is leaving for the same post at a mid-Atlantic theater.

The region's largest publicly traded company adjusted its earnings forecast for next year as it looks to recalibrate a core part of its business.

St. Louis City SC, currently playing its first season, is a leader in MLS merchandise sales, ranking in the top five among the league’s 29 teams.

A coalition of St. Louis economic development and agriculture organizations have teamed up to create a new nonprofit entity to lead the 39 North innovation district in St. Louis County, hiring the former leader of startup funder Arch Grants to oversee its operations.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule blocking access to certain medical procedures for transgender children and adults faces a lawsuit seeking to block implementation days before it is scheduled to go into effect. The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit Monday in St. Louis County calling Bailey’s rule “an attempt to legislate behind closed doors.” The 46-page lawsuit asks the court to block Bailey’s emergency order “to protect…

The new exit from Centene, which is St. Louis’ largest public company, contributed to continued high office vacancy, with a rate of 21.99% for the entire area, according to a report.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's new office in the Pacific Northwest will be led by new partners Jennifer Campbell and Allison Krashan, who previously worked at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, where they were shareholders.

The city of St. Louis is considering paying $500,000 for "professional services" tied to a program aimed at ensuring "motor vehicle license compliance." Any action against expired plates or temporary tags would generate attention in St. Louis, where many drivers use them for months or years after they've expired. When a vehicle is purchased, temporary tags are used while it's titled and sales tax is paid, before a permanent license plate is acquired. The disclosure came Monday during a meeting…

The U.S. Department of Defense has rejected Centene Corp.’s appeal of a decision to award a $65.1 billion contract to a group of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans.

Mordini's work seems to always combine art with business, especially when it comes to her hometown.

The law firm of Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard PC has signed a long-term lease to move to the Peabody Plaza building at 701 Market St., bidding farewell in mid-2024 to the One City Center building on Washington Avenue.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office has been ordered to appear at another “show cause” hearing this week for failing to show up to a trial. Gardner, or someone in her office, is expected to appear Thursday before Judge Michael Noble to answer why they shouldn’t be jailed, fined or both for being in contempt of court. In court documents, Noble said attorney Chris Desilets failed to appear to both a jury trial on April 10 and a status hearing on Monday. The circuit attorney’s…

Judge Scott Millikan used a lot of words Monday to describe St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and her office’s conduct after no one from the prosecutor’s office showed up for a first-degree murder trial in his courtroom a week ago – but “criminal contempt” was not among them. Millikan said the bar is high when it comes to fining someone, holding them in jail or both for contempt of court. He said the list of internal communications Gardner’s attorney submitted along with the statements…

Creve Coeur technology consulting firm Ocelot Consulting has grown its executive team, hiring a leader for its revenue operations, a move that comes as it considers expansion into new markets.

SmartAsset looked at 76 of the largest U.S. cities to see where a $100,000 annual salary goes the furthest. Here's where St. Louis landed on that list.

Engle Martin, a loss adjustment and claims management business that's part of the portfolio of St. Louis-based Barry-Wehmiller's investment arm, has acquired a specialty consulting business.

Alissa Heinerscheid is one of two executives involved in a social media campaign that had critics calling for a boycott.

Managing personal finances is an important life skill that underpins the national effort to require personal finance education in every state. But that effort shouldn’t edge out teaching economics, a Fed official argues.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is saying a series of missteps by her assistant prosecutors and possibly the jury trial supervisor led to her office not showing up for a murder trial April 17 – although text messages submitted in her defense suggest her office communicated about the case internally six days before it was scheduled to begin. Gardner or someone from her office is expected to appear before Judge Scott Millikan on Monday to answer why they shouldn’t be jailed, fined or both…