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Red Bull claims a Chicago nightclub serves a substitute to customers who order the company’s namesake beverage, the latest in a series of suits defending its leading share of the U.S. energy-drink market. Selective Publishing, owner of trendy downtown Chicago ...

FedEx Corp., the world’s largest air-cargo carrier, agreed to pay $275,000 to settle claims it allowed sexual harassment of male couriers by a male employee in Illinois and retaliated when a victim complained. U.S. District Judge Harold Baker in Urbana, ...

Suprema executives convicted in $568 million fraud Two executives of Suprema Specialties, a defunct New Jersey cheese maker, were convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges related to $568 million in fake sales. Mark Cocchiola, Suprema’s former chief executive officer, and ...

Charles Polk Jr. is already in prison, but judges still are wrestling with the lawsuit filed by one of his alleged fraud victims. It’s now up to the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District to decide whether a $3.6 million ...

Bloomberg News The FBI and the largest U.S. retail group are creating a computer database to track crime rings that steal as much as $37 billion in merchandise from department stores, restaurants and jewelers each year. Retailers and the U.S. ...

Interim San Francisco U.S. Attorney Scott Schools, who took over after his predecessor Kevin Ryan was fired, said statute-of-limitations deadlines might prevent prosecutors from bringing charges in some options backdating investigations. In his first comments since taking the post six ...

Barnes & Noble says it found no evidence of fraud in revealing that the company improperly dated stock options in the past 10 years. The retailer said it would hire a general counsel after previously using St. Louis-based Bryan Cave ...

The Missouri House has given first-round approval to a resolution that, if passed by the voters, would amount to the first change to existing language of the Missouri Bill of Rights in more than a century. The resolution by House ...

Independence man indicted on bank robbery charge Clyde Douglas Nelson, 55, of Independence, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday and charged with robbing a US Bank in Independence, according to an affidavit. The indictment alleges Nelson stole $96,574 ...

The presiding judge of St. Louis County Circuit Court issued a sweeping restraining order Thursday against the latest anti-illegal immigration bill to come out of Valley Park. Judge Carolyn Whittington’s order echoed a March 12 decision by fellow Judge Barbara ...

Third time, third TRO on housing restrictions