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Federal officials are opening an investigation into the deadly collapse of Amazon’s warehouse in Edwardsville in a tornado Friday, as the e-commerce giant said that the newly built warehouse didn’t appear to have any structural deficiencies that contributed to the disaster.

Amazon said it is providing employees and contract workers with relief supplies and services with transportation, food and clean water, and other immediate-needs support.

Kara and Dave Bailey, owners and operators of the restaurant, renovated the entire front of house, including refinishing the original wood floors, adding new tile and fixtures in the bathrooms, painting and redoing the bar. New equipment was also added to the kitchen.

The German successor to Monsanto, with its crop science headquarters in St. Louis, said it was "encouraged" by the Supreme Court's move Monday, in a case that could "effectively and largely end the U.S. Roundup litigation."

The nonprofit organization awarded $100,000 in funding to the four St. Louis-based startups through its Growth Grants program, which launched earlier this year and is designed to offer follow-on capital to Arch Grants’ portfolio companies.

A fast-growing artificial intelligence software company in the Kansas City area has acquired an IT consulting business based in O'Fallon, Illinois.

Suburban Columbus, Ohio, is gaining an $86 million, 215,000-square foot manufacturing facility, courtesy of Post Holdings Inc.

Crews are slated to resume work Monday morning at an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville where a tornado killed six workers Friday night. Cleanup also continues in St. Charles County, where one person died in the storms.

Amazon, which has its highest employment during the holiday shopping season, said the tornado formed at the site’s parking lot.

The Fenton-based transportation company's new president and CEO has been serving in an interim position since October.

The lease from the e-commerce giant — plus another from a manufacturer of fragrances — are the latest sign of St. Louis' red-hot industrial market.

A recreational vehicle dealership in Eureka is included in an acquisition by a growing Florida-based RV dealer group.

The acquisition will expand the St. Louis firm's technology, providing a new text messaging tool for its customers.

People with a disability who are out of the labor force or unemployed total nearly 25 million, wrote two St. Louis Fed officials in a recent blog post.

St. Louis lawmakers on Friday gave final approval to a bill extending downtown's controversial taxing district, but opponents of the organization said they planned to sue to block it.

The unanimous city council vote that ended a two-year effort to transform an area next to downtown Webster Groves through a $320 million mixed-use redevelopment surprised officials including the developer, who believes other developers will see the vote as a warning sign to stay away from Webster Groves.

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A jury in a California state court found Thursday that Bayer AG's Roundup herbicide did not cause a woman's cancer. It was the second consecutive trial Bayer has won in the state over the weedkiller.

St. Charles-based e-commerce appliance and furniture retailer Goedeker’s has trimmed its St. Louis workforce, a move the company says is a result of its broadening geographic footprint.