By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Alan Doan’s entrepreneurial dreams were to start the next Facebook or Google. Instead, the 32-year-old laid off software worker started a quilting… Read more »

(ST. LOUIS, AP) — Post Holdings says it is merging two of its cereal businesses, moving its headquarters from St. Louis to Minnesota and closing a New Jersey office, affecting… Read more »

By PHUONG LE (SEATTLE, AP) — Protesters opposed to Arctic oil drilling are preparing to paddle out in kayaks to meet Shell’s massive offshore drilling rig as it arrives any… Read more »

By DAVID PITT (DES MOINES, Iowa, AP) — Prices for eggs and turkey meat are rising as an outbreak of bird flu in the Midwest claims an increasing number of… Read more »

(SPRINGFIELD, Mo., AP) — A manufacturing plant in Springfield will close by the end of the year, costing about 200 employees their jobs. Officials with Minnesota-based Mammoth told the Springfield… Read more »

By MATT VOLZ (HELENA, Mont., AP) — Author Jon Krakauer doesn’t like to make public appearances, so there will be no book tour to promote his latest work, “Missoula: Rape… Read more »

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — The state budget director says Missouri’s revenues continue to increase compared with last year’s. Budget Director Linda Luebbering on Monday reported revenues have grown 7.7… Read more »

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A proposal from Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander to reduce fees charged to businesses is headed to the Senate. The Missouri House Thursday approved… Read more »

(ST. LOUIS, AP) — Contractors already have submitted roughly $800,000 in bills toward the development of a billion-dollar proposed football stadium in St. Louis, according to a newspaper report. Two… Read more »