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Up three flights of polished marble stairs, Bill Mudge’s Madison County Courthouse office looks like a diorama of Metro East legal history. There are yellowed […]

ST. LOUIS — Andrew N. “Drew” Baur, one of the owners of the Cardinals and an executive at , died today, according to a release […]

Roots Canada says it plans to use a Facebook

Major acquisition activity in the Canadian mining sector and rising oil prices helped to send the Toronto stock market slightly higher Wednesday.
The S&P/TSX composite index […]

General Motors’ Buick division has long been known for big, cushy cars, but the automaker will reveal a new compact Buick at the 2011 […]

The overall economy may continue limping along in 2011, but American farmers could plow their way to record harvests.
Researchers at the University of Missouri predict […]

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser said it’s too early to assume the central bank will complete the $600 billion in Treasury purchases […]

Irish comedians are lining up to pillory financiers and lampoon politicians — as investors dump the government’s bonds on concern that a rescue of the […]

The new CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. is expected to be called to testify next month in a long-running legal battle between Oracle Corp. and the […]

Debt collectors are getting desperate and dirty.
Harassing phone calls, abusive language and physical violence are becoming a bigger part of business as debt collectors […]