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It is the second firm in recent weeks to say it is moving employees from Downtown West to downtown

Clayton-based financial services firm Benjamin F. Edwards has opened its 100th branch location. The firm opened six other branch offices last year.

Andy Taylor, executive chairman of Clayton-based car rental giant Enterprise Mobility, has sold his minority ownership stake in the St. Louis Blues to his niece Carolyn Kindle, the National Hockey League Franchise said Wednesday.

Republican factional fights are nothing new in the Missouri General Assembly. But what is new this year is the venue — the House of Representatives, where a sophomore lawmaker accusing his colleagues of corrupt politics seeks to upset the usually routine election of a speaker. State Rep. Justin Sparks of Wildwood admits history is against him in his attempt to prevent state Rep. Jon Patterson of Lee’s Summit from becoming speaker. Patterson, who was majority leader in the previous General Assembly,…

The St. Louis County Council held its first meeting of the year Tuesday after swearing in two new members. One of the first orders of business was a call to draft legislation giving the council the ability to remove county department heads, and it could apply to the county executive. This new legislation would require a change of the St. Louis County charter, which means the people would end up deciding whether they want to give this removal power to the council. On Tuesday, the St. Louis County…

The St. Louis County Council is asking the state auditor to investigate the practices of the prosecuting attorney's office over the past six years. On Tuesday, the council passed a resolution to make that request, which came less than a week after former prosecutor Wesley Bell left office and was replaced by Melissa Price Smith. In a written statement, Republican Councilman Mark Harder, who represents the 7th District in west St. Louis County, said the complaints primarily focus on the mishandling…

A sandwich shop is moving from the city of St. Louis to Maplewood.

The new St. Louis County Council on Tuesday overrode County Executive Sam Page's veto of a bill that seeks to have the government pay the legal fees of Councilman Dennis Hancock.

A portfolio company of WILsquare Capital, a St. Louis-based private equity firm, has expanded by buying a paint distributor.

SureCam, a Maplewood-based company that provides connected dashcams and video telematics software for vehicle fleets, said it closed on $36 million in funding last year.

The Des Peres-based company said Edward Jones Ventures will invest in and accelerate the development of high-potential products, services and technology to benefit clients as well as its its financial advising branches.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 26 schools with at least 3,000 students posted single-digit acceptance rates for fall 2023, up from 22 in 2022. Here's how local schools stacked up for selectivity.

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s system for rating schools came under fire Tuesday morning as the State Board of Education looked at the accreditation status of districts. Questions about the department’s system arose as Kerry Casey, a board member from Chesterfield, pushed for St. Louis Public Schools to be demoted from fully accredited to provisional accreditation. “I’m very concerned as I read the paper daily here in St. Louis about the failures of the…

A new for-sale listing has emerged for the Laclede Gas Building and includes new details, including an asking price, for the 31-story downtown tower.

A Kansas City-area credit union has advanced its expansion into the St. Louis metro area through a tie-in with a credit union based in St. Louis County.

The CEO of Panera Brands Inc., the St. Louis-based parent company of Panera Bread and several other restaurant chains, has left the business and an interim CEO has been named.

The firm, the fifth-largest in St. Louis, named eight new partners.

Former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner spent more than $50,000 without permission and allowed the rate of cases processed to crater while spending nearly 35 work days taking nursing courses, an audit from the Missouri state auditor said. "Taxpayers should be outraged by how this office was run into the ground by Gardner at the same time she was using tax dollars to throw parties for her staff, and to pay for her personal legal fees that were a result of her own incompetence," Missouri State Auditor…

Mercy Health has rejected allegations in a lawsuit that it retaliated against a construction firm for reporting possible wrongdoing by two former health system executives.

As a new legislator in 2023, Missouri state Rep. Justin Sparks became the leading advocate for a proposal to create a child care facility serving employees of the St. Louis County Police Department. A few months after lawmakers approved spending $6 million from federal Covid relief funds to create the center, Sparks took a job with the organization in charge of the project, the National Law Enforcement Foundation. So far, the foundation, created in 2022, has used $3.7 million of the funding. Sparks,…