U.S. banks are seeing an increase in demand for credit and are providing loans more readily to home buyers and businesses.
Read More »Ambulance company Rural/Metro seeks bankruptcy
Rural/Metro provides ambulance and firefighting services to about 700 communities in 21 states, including Missouri.
Read More »Caterpillar board sued over ERA Mining Machinery acquisition
Investor Michael D. Wolin of New Jersey accused the directors, Caterpillar Inc. Chairman Douglas R. Oberhelman and Chief Financial Officer Edward J. Rapp of breaching their fiduciary duties to the company in a complaint filed on its behalf in Chicago on Monday.
Read More »Prepaid funeral criminal trial opens
Investment adviser David Wulf was the key to trust money drained in a prepaid funeral scheme, assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Birmingham said Monday in opening the fraud trial in the criminal case against Wulf.
Read More »ACLU urges school districts to accept transfers
Every student from an unaccredited school district that wants to enroll in the Kirkwood or Mehlville school districts must be permitted to do so, the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri said in a letter to the districts’ superintendents.
Read More »Labor Dept. cracks down on wage-and-hour laws
The U.S. Department of Labor wants restaurants and other employers to realize just how serious it is about violations to the Fair Labor Standard Act’s wage-and-hour laws.
Read More »Commentary: Spy agencies are addicted to corporate data load
What we have now is death to privacy — and that’s very dangerous to democracy and liberty.
Read More »Legal Services to honor 12 Equal Justice Champions
The 2013 edition of the For the Common Good Annual Awards Reception comes Aug. 28.
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Read More »Meanes named president-elect of National Bar Association
Thompson Coburn partner Pamela Meanes has been elected president-elect of the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest association of African-American attorneys.
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Read More »St. Louis Fed’s Bullard urges wait before tapering purchases
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard, who backed last week’s Fed decision to continue bond buying, said the Fed should wait for evidence the labor market and economy are strengthening before tapering purchases.
Read More »Same-sex spouses to get visas after Supreme Court’s ruling
The decision applies to spouses of U.S. citizens as well as non-U.S. citizens.
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