By P. SOLOMON BANDA (DENVER, AP) — Twitter just issued its IPO but a lingering question is how the popular worldwide microblog company will turn a profit. One Colorado-based company… Read more »
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Lawsuit seeks $30 million in failed Mamtek plant
(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — A new lawsuit filed in Boone County is seeking $30 million from an investment banking firm and 10 employees accused of fraudulent business practices in a… Read more »
Nixon stumps for Boeing plant in St. Louis County
(CHESTERFIELD, Mo., AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon is heading to St. Louis County to publicly pitch his plan to lure a new Boeing Co. aircraft plant to Missouri. Nixon was… Read more »
Warrensburg director of program for disabled indicted
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted the director of a program for disabled people in a northwest Missouri town for allegedly embezzling more than $385,000… Read more »
Newspapers lose challenge to direct mail deal
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER (WASHINGTON, AP) — An appeals court panel has rejected a challenge by a newspaper trade group to a U.S. Postal Service agreement with a direct mailing… Read more »
KC plant will build 2 new Harley-Davidson cycles
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Harley-Davidson says it will build two new lightweight motorcycles at its Kansas City plant, beginning next year. The new Street 500 and Street 750 models… Read more »
Hallmark dropping party wares, cutting 225 jobs
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Hallmark Cards will eliminate about 225 jobs by ending its party ware business and streamlining parts of its greeting card operation, company officials said. The… Read more »
College presidents find smaller can be better
By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — After five scandal-plagued years as University of North Carolina chancellor, Holden Thorp was downright ecstatic to start over on a campus where… Read more »
Online promos bring legal issues for local bars
By STEVE GANEY (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — Five local bars got a little too creative with their online advertisements, violating state liquor advertisement regulations through their promotions on Facebook. Cpl…. Read more »
Belgians buying Boulevard Brewing
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — One of America’s largest craft beer makers, Kansas City-based Boulevard Brewing, is being sold to Belgian brewer Duvel Moortgat. Boulevard founder John McDonald says in… Read more »