Novus completes Albion acquisition St. Charles County-based Novus International Inc. has completed the acquisition of the Animal Nutrition Division of Albion Laboratories Inc., a company based in Clearfield, Utah. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Novus said the acquisition will allow the ...
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Robert H. Bernstein and Edwin C. Ernst IV are starting up a St. Louis office for Atlanta-based labor and employment law firm Constangy, Brooks & Smith. Both attorneys formerly were with Thompson Coburn. Bernstein, who heads the new office, has ...
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NEWS MAKERS Daud joins SSM Medical Group Dr. Umar Daud, a specialist in rheumatology, has joined SSM St. Charles Clinic Medical Group. Rheumatology is the treatment of autoimmune diseases involving joints and soft tissues. Daud is board certified in both internal medicine and rheumatology. He ...
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St. Charles casino posts 2 percent higher revenue Ameristar Casino in St. Charles had December revenues of almost $23.9 million. That is 2 percent increase compared to a year ago, according to figures compiled by the Missouri Gaming Association. Harrah’s Maryland Heights casino saw its December revenues ...
Read More »Missouri a ‘judicial hellhole’ no more
Missouri courts must have done something right this year. They weren’t on the annual list of “judicial hellholes” and were removed from the report’s “watch list.” The circuit courts in the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and Jackson ...
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Read More »U.S. Sentencing Commission head confirmed
Six months after his nomination by President Barack Obama, Vermont federal district court Judge William K. Sessions III was confirmed by the Senate as chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Sessions has served as a vice chair of the U.S. ...
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Read More »Scottrade fined for inadequate monitoring of money laundering
Scottrade Inc., the St. Louis-based discount brokerage, will pay $600,000 to settle a regulator’s claims it had inadequate systems to detect money laundering. The brokerage from 2003 through January 2005 had no automated system to identify suspicious trades or fund ...
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