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Stupid Patent Of The Month: Traxcell Tech Gets Ordered To Pay Attorneys’ Fees 

2 years 7 months ago
If someone loses a patent lawsuit very badly—to the point where they face orders to pay attorneys’ fees—you wouldn’t think they would be eager to come back to court with a nearly identical lawsuit. But that’s what has happened with this month’s patent. What’s more, the lawyer representing the patent owner, William Ramey, has been […]
Mike Masnick

Beast Butcher & Block in the Grove to Close

2 years 7 months ago
The Grove has just become a little less delicious: BEAST Butcher & Block in the Grove (4156 Manchester Avenue) closed for daily operations on March 26. The restaurant will fulfill all obligations made for April, St. Louis Magazine reported yesterday.
Katie Lawson

Letter to the Editor: Wood River Is Headed In The Wrong Direction

2 years 7 months ago
Letter to the Editor: WOOD RIVER: Wood River is headed in the wrong direction. It will take the “Right Two” to turn Wood River around. Voters clearly said they did not want a Rec Center. The cost is now $12,000,000 and we may not have the revenues to cover the cost of up to $1,000,000 a year to pay for it. Voters have been ignored. Cheryl Maguire, the “Rec”-less 3, and their supporters refuse to listen and want to continue to impose their will on Wood River. Voters have endured never-ending fees and tax increases. The City Council has failed to provide the proper oversight, the “checks and balances”, of city management and failed to enforce city ordinances which has resulted in waste and higher costs to taxpayers. Voters have suffered from declining population and stagnant property values. The City Council continues to enact policies that drain our resources and make Wood River unattractive for young families to consider as a place to live. Dav

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Serial Killer Gary Muehlberg Pleads Guilty to First Known Slaying

2 years 7 months ago
Thirty-three years ago, serial murderer Gary Muehlberg discarded 18-year-old Robyn Mihan’s dead body along a stretch of rural Highway E in Lincoln County. Muehlberg abducted Mihan from the Southside Stroll in St. Louis on Thursday, March 22, 1990, before murdering her in his home in Bel-Ridge. That Monday, he tied her lifeless body between two mattresses and in the early morning hours left her along the roadside to be found by a commuter.
Ryan Krull

The Sake Cocktail Contest Will Be Like Netflix's Drink Masters in St. Louis

2 years 7 months ago
Last year, people everywhere fell in love with local star mixologist Meredith Barry. In town, many already know Barry for the cocktails she whips up at the bar she co-owns, Platypus. But even those who have never sipped one of her drinks soon found themselves enchanted when Barry competed on Netflix's Drink Masters.
Jessica Rogen

Legal Roundtable: Facing down Missouri’s AG, Kim Gardner tells supporters she will run again

2 years 7 months ago
What’s next for St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner? Has attorney Al Watkins played himself into a lawsuit? What happens to Missouri’s gun laws now that a federal judge has ruled the state’s Second Amendment Preservation Act is unconstitutional? The Legal Roundtable tackles those cases, and more, with attorneys Eric Banks, Nicole Gorovsky and Mary Anne Sedey.

News Publishers Admit They Get Value From Search Traffic, Even As They Demand Extra Compensation For It

2 years 7 months ago
In recent years, major media organizations have been lobbying Congress to enact legislation, the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act,” requiring search engine providers to engage in a form of collective bargaining about the tax they would pay to media publishers for the privilege of providing links to their news articles, backed up by mandatory interest arbitration in which […]
Mike Masnick