An HIV-positive man is suing a St. Louis-area air ambulance service in federal court, alleging he was wrongly removed from his job as a paramedic and reassigned to a dispatch center because of his illness. Clinton Moore alleges in his ...
Read More »Uber launches St. Louis ride-hailing service, files lawsuit
Uber says it is launching its ride-hailing service in the St. Louis market and suing the city’s taxicab regulators in federal court for having tried to block the competition. Uber’s antitrust lawsuit Friday came the same day the regulatory St. ...
Read More »US transportation board to probe some limousine crashes
The National Transportation Safety Board has agreed to investigate some limousine accidents, something it has rarely done, after a lawmaker and others questioned the safety of vehicles modified into stretch limos. The announcement follows a July crash in Long Island, ...
Read More »Another food fight? Congress mulls school meal standards
Congress is deciding whether it wants another pitched battle with first lady Michelle Obama and the administration over school lunches that put more whole grains in kids’ meals and cut salty foods. Last year, school food rules pitted Mrs. Obama ...
Read More »Feds to pay $940M to settle claims over tribal contracts
The Obama administration has agreed to pay hundreds of Native American tribes nearly $1 billion to settle a decades-old claim that the government failed to adequately compensate tribes while they managed education, law enforcement and other federal services. The Interior ...
Read More »Scorecard: How the GOP candidates fared in their 2nd debate
Here’s a look at how the eleven Republican candidates for president participating in the main-event debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California fared on Wednesday night. ____ DONALD TRUMP The clear target of many of his rivals. ...
Read More »Joplin city attorney denies Sunshine Law violation
The top legal adviser in Joplin is fighting allegations that he violated the Missouri Sunshine Law by taking a telephone poll of City Council members on a settlement proposal in an ethics case involving a councilman. City Attorney Peter Edwards ...
Read More »Key events in General Motors’ ignition switch recall
General Motors was the subject of multiple government investigations and hundreds of civil lawsuits for taking more than a decade to recall 2.6 million cars with a deadly ignition switch defect. Under a deal with federal prosecutors expected to be ...
Read More »Report: Health care apps available in US top 165,000
Smartphone users now have more than 165,000 apps available to help them stay healthy or monitor a medical condition, but just three dozen account for nearly half of all downloads, according to a new report. Most apps focus on fitness ...
Read More »GM said to settle criminal case over ignition switches
Federal prosecutors are set to announce a settlement with General Motors that resolves a criminal investigation into how the Detroit automaker concealed a deadly problem with small-car ignition switches, according to three people briefed on the case. Under the deal, ...
Read More »GOP leaders hope Right to Life can help head off shutdown
Hoping to prevent the Republican uproar over the Planned Parenthood videos from snowballing into a government shutdown, GOP leaders are turning to one of Planned Parenthood’s most implacable foes: the National Right to Life Committee. Some conservative lawmakers want the ...
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