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TomTom wins patent lawsuit brought by Garmin TomTom, Europe’s largest maker of car-navigation equipment, said it won a patent-infringement lawsuit brought by U.S. competitor Garmin. U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb in Madison, Wis., ruled that the five U.S. patents ...

Steve Gorny kisses his 7-year-old daughter, Ellie, below, after finishing the Las Vegas Marathon on Dec. 10, the last race of his campaign to raise $24,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. contributed photo In the end it equaled more ...

A U.S. court ruled that the 2002 federal campaign-finance law went too far in barring corporations, labor unions and other interest groups from directly funding broadcast ads that mention federal candidates. A divided three-judge panel, ruling in a challenge by ...

Lawsuits brought by Midwest rice farmers against Bayer CropScience have been harvested into a single matter and shipped to the federal court in St. Louis. An order last week from the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated actions from farmers ...

In the newest round of tax disputes between Missouri cities and cell phone companies, an operator of Verizon Wireless has taken the tiny city of Wellston to court. The suit, filed last month in St. Louis County Circuit Court, is ...

Memorial Mass scheduled for Ernest ‘Ernie’ Brasier A memorial Mass for Ernest “Ernie” Brasier, who was killed last week in his Clayton office, will be 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. Clement Parish at 1510 Bopp Road in Des Peres, according ...

BP failed safety tests after blast, executive says A BP refinery flunked an independent safety review begun a year after an explosion ripped through the Texas City, Texas, facility, killing 15 and injuring hundreds, a company executive said in a ...

Leo Eilts, left, owner of Testimonial Video, and Mark Weddle, also from Testimonial Video, chat during The Daily Record’s open house and thank you party Thursday afternoon. The Daily Record’s first Holiday Drive for The Bishop Sullivan Center yielded donations ...

With a new chairwoman in office and new general counsel taking the helm, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is getting ready for a busy year. In a meeting this fall at EEOC headquarters in Washington, staff laid out the agency’s ...

Model train maker Lionel faces a lawsuit from Mike’s Train House over rights to designs. Mike’s Train House won $40.8 million at trial in 2004, but the Maryland Court of Appeals reversed and ordered a new trial. contributed photo A ...

Check Point agrees to settle shareholders suit Check Point Software Technologies, Internet-security software maker, said it agreed in principle to settle a three-year-old class action shareholder suit. Under the agreement, the company’s insurer will pay $13 million to investors who ...