No injuries reported.

Case involving Judge Michael Cook linked to recent overdose death of another judge, Joseph Christ.

Injured brother ran to a neighbor's home for help, then collapsed

Liberals and conservatives are working together to challenge crop insurance subsidies in a massive farm and food bill up for Senate debate.

Club hopeful Garcia will be ready for 2014 spring training. For now, three of five starters are rookies.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits hardly changed for a second straight week.

Conservation Department officials had expected to bring only 39 elk from Kentucky this week, but a male calf was born on the way.

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GRAPEVINE, Texas  • The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday on whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of …

WASHINGTON  • The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 23,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, a level consistent with solid job growth.

Managed care provider Centene entered into a new unsecured revolving credit agreement Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing by the company. The agreement increases the Clayton-based company’s borrowing capacity from $350 million to $500 million through June 2018. Barclays Bank PLC served as administrative agent for the agreement and was the largest of the 11 lenders providing $72.5 million of credit, according to the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Suntrust…

The owners of Erker’s Fine Eyewear have set their sights on sunglasses, and plan to open a sunglass boutique at Plaza Frontenac next month. Soleil by Erker’s will launch June 1, said Jack Erker III, a fifth-generation owner of the eyeglass business. It will sell high-end brands such as Cartier, Tag Heuer, Chanel and Gucci. And we do mean high end: Styles range from solid gold frames to pavé diamonds. Erker said the company invested $140,000 to open the new location, which has projected first-year…

A split has emerged in the fledgling St. Louis startup community in the wake of the firing of Sarah Spear, who was the executive director of the Arch Grants business plan competition until she was fired last week. One the one side are the entrepreneurs and young innovators, who see her firing, and especially the way it was done, as an indication that St. Louis is still run by a good-old-boy network of lawyers and financiers who are not ready for the cultural change necessary to transform the region’s…

Boeing Co. CEO Jim McNerney said in an investors conference Wednesday that he is leading an initiative to pressure suppliers to reduce prices. “And so we have no-fly lists across the company, so if a certain group is not working with us on program A, they will feel the pain on every other program, and they’ll be on a corporate no-fly list” for the next programs, McNerney said. “They’ll not be allowed to bid on new programs with Boeing.” He said Boeing now has a bigger market share than…

Electrochaea LLC, a portfolio company of Nidus Partners, has received two European grants worth some $500,000 to develop its energy-to-gas technology. The startup received a grant from the Danish electricity and gas grid company Energinet.dk and will work through a technology demonstration program there to develop its energy-to-gas technology for the Danish market. St. Louis-based Electrochaea is also eligible for up £40,000 ($60,300) in grant funding from the UK Department of Energy and Climate…