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Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey closed for Thanksgiving break one day early last week due to a ransomware attack. Now, it will remain closed for another week. In a Facebook post Sunday night, the school said the campus needs to remain closed this week to "provide necessary recovery time for our IT systems." "All classes, campus events, program events and athletics events are canceled and all campus offices will be closed," the post said. "We ask that everyone please remain off campus…

E-commerce appliance and furniture retailer Goedeker’s on Monday said it has hired a new executive to lead its marketing and merchandising strategies. The publicly traded St. Charles-based company, which trades as 1847 Goedeker Inc. (NYSE: GOED), appointed Jody Rusnak as chief merchandising and brand innovation officer, effective Monday. He joins the company from Nebraska Furniture Mart Inc., based in Omaha, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. that's considered one of the…

A portfolio company of St. Louis-based private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners has acquired a Pennsylvania technology firm.

The Green Goose Resale & Consignment, a furniture and home decor consignment shop in Webster Groves, will shutter at year's end and is looking for someone to buy the business, according to a social media post Monday. Founder and owner Robin McNabb, who opened the business in 2011, said in a Facebook post Monday that the shop, at 1267 S. Laclede Station Road, would shutter at the end of its lease term on Dec. 31. After thanking "family and friends" for an "an amazing weekend" kicking off the holiday…

The hedge fund that last week made an unsolicited bid for the parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch now says it is nominating three members for the company's board.

Over the past 20 months, a lot has changed in our country, and for many people these changes include their address. America has been experiencing a shuffle as people explore options to relocate, driven by financial and social factors, as well as a shift to remote work. The ability to live anywhere and work remotely has provided the chance for people to seek residence based on quality of life, not just employment. The challenge is finding the right fit. How do you weigh the value of big-city amenities…

As Bronwyn Morgan prepared for her first takeoff, she recalls being frightened to death of losing her aircraft — even as she was watching from below, safely on the ground. “I did not want this thing to get away from me. You lose a drone, and you just pray it comes back to you,” Morgan said. “But I found it very liberating. It was my chance to fly, but I didn’t have to be in the sky to do it.” While Morgan considers herself first and foremost an innovator, she’s also a geospatial entrepreneur.…

Wells Fargo & Co. will require employees to report their Covid-19 vaccination status and, if unvaccinated, get tested regularly, according to an internal memo.

Investigators are looking into an early Sunday morning fire in East St. Louis that destroyed a pallet manufacturer and recycling company. The fire was reported about 4:30 a.m. in the 2000 block of East Broadway. The blaze significantly damaged a company known as Ongweoweh Supply Chain Solutions. Fire chief Jason Blackmon said investigators do not yet know the cause. “Not at this particular time," said Blackmon, at about 10:30 Sunday morning. "It’s a pallet yard and a lot of pallets and a lot…

Metro Transit is cutting or reducing service on some bus routes, effective Monday, as it deals with a worker shortage.

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate last week remained unchanged from the prior week's 3.10%.

MotoMart is once again trying to build a gas station on the Missouri side of the Missisippi River next to the Jefferson Barracks Bridge, after St. Louis County officials rejected its first attempt last year.

For many families, the Build Back Better plan's biggest change is the extension of the enhanced child tax credit through 2022. The House bill also has a dramatic change in the deduction for state and local taxes, raising the cap from $10,000 to $80,000 through 2030.

The local United Way’s Women Leadership Society, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, was the first of its kind in the nation and since its inception has raised more than $115 million to help strengthen the entire community for generations to come, writes HOK's Margaret McDonald and Cigna's Susan Stith.

I was thinking about those blessings for which to be most grateful, but I have decided to write about just one.

Law firms for St. Louis are set to take more than a third of its $790 million settlement in the Rams lawsuit, based on terms of a contract approved in 2016.

The move to approve tax-increment financing for the $250 million project comes ahead of a state law that takes effect Jan. 1 blocking TIFs in flood plains, a city spokesperson said.

St. Louis may have appeared to have the upper hand in its lawsuit against the Los Angeles Rams and National Football League, but legal and sports business experts say the plaintiffs’ decision to settle the case avoids the unpredictably that would have come with a trial and an appeals process.

1 Million Cups St. Louis this month again began hosting its weekly event in-person for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. With its return, 1 Million Cups has also taken on an expanded structure that will feature additional startups through its programming.

Aldermanic President Lewis Reed, said he expected the city's windfall to be larger than the county's or that of the Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority, the public entity that owns the Dome at America's Center, where the Rams played.