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Monsanto Co. says it will eliminate 2,600 jobs as part of a cost-saving plan designed to deal with falling sales of its biotech seeds and herbicides, which pushed it quarterly losses deeper into the red. The job cuts will reduce ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering rules that would severely curtail a contentious practice called forced arbitration, which consumer advocates have long argued does a disservice to people who have disputes with banks, credit card issuers and other financial ...

The Missouri Bar Annual Meeting is officially underway in St. Louis. The meeting started Wednesday at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark Hotel. Morning sessions included a public defenders meeting, a probate and associate circuit judges’ board meeting and ...

Missouri’s budget director on Monday said the state can’t count on getting $50 million in anticipated tobacco settlement money that was budgeted to be spent this fiscal year. Budget director Dan Haug said a September appeals court ruling means the ...

Volkswagen’s pollution-control chicanery has not just been victimless tinkering, killing between five and 20 people in the United States annually in recent years, according to an Associated Press statistical and computer analysis. The software that the company admitted using to ...

A former Navy pilot has filed a $35 million lawsuit against the federal government alleging that a Veterans Affairs doctor misdiagnosed him with a mental illness that caused him to lose his ability to fly commercial airplanes and be wrongly ...

The Supreme Court is taking a step to address criticism that its inner workings are opaque. The court announced Monday that its website will identify and highlight changes to opinions after they are released to the public. Changes will be ...

Retired businessman John Brunner formally entered the crowded Republican field seeking to be Missouri’s next governor, touting himself as a political outsider with the leadership experience to bring needed change to state government. In a video announcing his candidacy Monday, ...

UPDATED A Husch Blackwell spokesman confirmed that John Diehl Jr., the former speaker of the Missouri House, has left the firm. “I can confirm John Diehl resigned from the firm effective Oct. 1,” spokesman Phil Hermanson stated. Hermanson said he ...

Missouri Lawyers Weekly on Friday hosted its annual Up & Coming Awards, which recognize lawyers who are 40 years or younger or within the first 10 years of practice. The 56 winners were chosen from more than 125 nominees. The ...

St. Louis County police must strengthen policies for handling protests, improve training on diversity and community policing, and do a better job of hiring and promoting minorities and women, according to a report released Friday by the Department of Justice. ...