MLM Counties News. Notices. Need-to-know Information.

Novus’ Simons recognized Thad W. Simons Jr., president and CEO of St. Charles County-based Novus International Inc., is one of the finalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the Central Midwest. The accounting firm said ...

Polsinelli Shughart has re-elected W. Russell Welsh as chairman and John M. “Jack” Kilroy Jr. as vice chairman. The firm was formed from the merger of Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus and Shughart Thomson & Kilroy in February 2009. National labor ...

Berra named regional president of MBC Midwest BankCentre (MBC) has named Dan Berra as regional president of its West County division. The bank said Berra will focus on growing business in Chesterfield, and in St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren counties ...

SCC’s McDorman to head NCMPR Heather McDorman, associate vice president for marketing and communications at St. Charles Community College, has been named the 2010-11 president of the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations. McDorman, of Wentzville, has worked at ...

Frank H. Plescia has joined Bryan Cave as senior policy adviser in the firm’s St. Louis and Jefferson City offices. Working within the firm’s environmental practice, Plescia will focus on expanding the firm’s state government affairs practice. Plescia has more ...

Synergetics doubles quarterly profit O’Fallon-based Synergetics USA Inc. reported last week that its profit for the second quarter more than doubled. The company, which makes surgical devices, reported a profit of $877,000 for the quarter that ended Jan. 31, compared ...

A number of professional franchises, representing at least four different sports, have played their home games at St. Charles County’s Family Arena during the facility’s 10-year history. None has been able to become a financially viable enterprise. And while sporting ...

Conoyer is certified as meeting planner The Convention Industry Council has designated Katie Conoyer as a certified meeting planner. Conoyer works as Global Spectrum’s sales manager at the St. Charles Convention Center. The CIC’s certification program recognizes people who have ...

Senate confirms Yarber The Missouri Senate recently confirmed Gov. Jay Nixon’s appointment of Donald Yarber to the Missouri Public Entity Risk Management Board of Trustees. The trustees oversee the operation of a shared-risk pool of funds for public entities offering ...

St. Peters man gets 37 months in prison Kenneth G. Neely of St. Peters was sentenced Friday to 37 months in prison on a mail fraud charge involving a Ponzi scheme in which he swindled investors out of more than $600,000. U.S. District Judge Jean C. Hamilton ...

Armstrong Teasdale announced Jia “Holly” You has returned to the firm as an associate in the St. Louis office. You, who previously worked in the Shanghai and St. Louis offices, has corporate and commercial transactions, employment and intellectual property practices. ...