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Cincinnati-based freight brokerage firm Total Quality Logistics said Thursday it is expanding its operations in St. Louis, with plans to add dozens of jobs locally.

As part of the architectural program at Kansas University, Chrissy Hill Rogers traveled the summer before her senior year to Italy and Spain with her fellow students. She said that experience is when she became “totally all in, about my passion for architecture.”.

Raytheon and its subsidiaries asked Judge Richard Stewart of St. Louis County Circuit Court to dismiss the lawsuit. Boeing has requested a jury trial.

The act of giving back to St. Louis nonprofits and causes, whether it be through cash, volunteer time or through the donation of goods and services, is a company’s way of recognizing that their good fortune comes, in large part, from the community it serves or lives within.

World Wide Technology Raceway's Raceway Gives program partners with the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center in East St. Louis, allowing the center's young members to spend time at the track for hands-on STEM education experiences.

Edward Jones and the University of Missouri-St. Louis co-lead the St. Louis Anchor Action Network. This coalition of local leaders in health care, higher education and the public and private sectors who are focused on improving equity by increasing the number of employees they hire and the amount of money they spend in local neighborhoods with high poverty rates.

The health care system last year began depositing part of its balance sheet with the bank, which uses the funds to make loans to economically challenged people and businesses in 22 zip codes in north city and north county that don’t have easy access to traditional banking services.

The company and its nonprofit arm last year dispensed more than 4,500 pairs of glasses to young students through its Mobile Vision Clinics.

The St. Louis-based financial services firm donated nearly $430,000 in total cash donations in 2022. With revenue just short of $40 million, this made Royal Banks of Missouri the firm with the highest cash donations as a percentage of its revenue.

Centene Corp. donated $19.5 million locally in 2022, to organizations including the Missouri Botanical Garden, Washington University and the Muny.

Edward Jones donated $17.5 million locally in 2022, putting the firm second on our Biggest Corporate Philanthropists - Large Companies List. The firm says that its philanthropy and volunteer opportunities not only gives back to its community, but help recruit and retain talent.

Schnuck Markets Inc. donated $15.3 million locally in 2022 to organizations including the Operation Food Search, the United Way and the Urban League.

Thompson Coburn, a St. Louis-based law firm, in 2022 contributed almost $2.7 million in cash and in-kind giving to the St. Louis region.

Keeley Cos., with about 975 total employees and companywide revenue of $440.6 million in 2022, contributed more than $2 million in cash and in-kind giving to the St. Louis region last year.

The team could break ground on a Las Vegas ballpark next year and open in 2027.

Anti-diversity budget language called a “job killer” by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce didn’t survive the Senate Appropriations Committee Wednesday, as the panel wrapped up its work on the state spending plan for the coming year. Over two days of work, the committee added more than $3 billion to the House-approved budget for state operations in the coming fiscal year. The biggest items added Wednesday were $300 million for the Department of Mental Health to build a new psychiatric hospital…

Town and County-based Elessent Clean Technologies, which provides process technologies for manufacturers, has been tapped to develop a sulfuric acid regeneration plant in China.

The city of St. Louis anticipates spending 7.1% more in fiscal 2024, to $1.32 billion, driven by employee pay increases. City Budget Director Paul Payne made an initial presentation to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, the three-member top fiscal body, on Wednesday, the first in a series of steps toward finalizing the budget, which takes effect July 1. Estimate and Apportionment, made up of Mayor Tishaura Jones, Aldermanic President Megan Green and Comptroller Darlene Green, is to meet April…

St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann on Wednesday appointed Joseph McCulloch to be the county's prosecuting attorney, following the resignation last month of Tim Lohmar.

Rosati-Kain Academy, formed as a successor to the Archdiocese-sponosored Rosait-Kain High School, has named its first president.