JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-- Missouri Gov. Missouri officials said Boeing currently employs about 15,000 workers at its St. Louis County campus. The state Department of Economic Development said Boeing could access up to $7 million during the next five years through the Missouri Quality Jobs program through the expansion.
*Netflix, DreamWorks shares jump after deal on programs. *Terex tumbles after outlook, Time Warner falls on downgrade.
Missouri residents soon could turn to their hometown banks for a quick cash advance under legislation that could allow traditional financial institutions to compete with the payday lenders that proliferate across the state.
LAS VEGAS-- Pinnacle has reached an agreement in principle with federal regulators on the structure of its proposed acquisition of rival Ameristar Casinos Inc..
Cutting is now in full swing from north Texas to the Kansas border, "said Mark Hodges, director of the farmers group Plains Grains Inc. The increasing supply weighed on futures, with Chicago Board of Trade July wheat easing 4-3/ 4 cents to $6.80- 3/ 4 per bushel, the lowest settlement since April 2.
Farmers were gathering hard red winter wheat in Texas and Oklahoma, with harvest likely to begin soon in the top growing state of Kansas. "
Anastassios Koumbourlis, pulmonary chief at Children's National Medical Center in the nation's capital. Sarah Murnaghan, who is recovering from Wednesday's operation at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, made headlines as her parents challenged national policy over how children under 12 are placed on the waiting list for donated lungs.
The project proposed by Wind Capital Group of St. Louis would erect 94 wind turbines on 8,400 acres that the Osage Nation says contains key eagle-nesting habitat and migratory routes.
NEW YORK, June 13- U.S. Renewed appetite for Treasuries will likely bolster bidding at the $13 billion auction of 30- year bonds at 1 p.m., part of this week's $66 billion in coupon-bearing government debt supply, analysts said.
NEW YORK, June 13- When the state of Mississippi begins offering subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's reform law this year, residents will have only one choice- Magnolia Health Plan- a small insurer little known in most of the country.
*Focus is on area surrounding Oregon field. WASHINGTON/ KANSAS CITY, June 12- An agricultural dragnet has found no cases of unapproved genetically engineered wheat outside of a 123- acre field in Oregon after two months of an ongoing investigation, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon pressed his objections Tuesday to what he called a "risky, untested scheme" that would reduce the state's income tax rate for the first time in more than 90 years.
ST. PAUL, Minn.-- Four Minnesota watersheds have been selected to test a first-in-the nation voluntary pilot project that offers farmers incentives to reduce water pollution from their operations in exchange for protection from tighter future regulations, federal and state officials announced Monday.
June 10- Last-minute legislative maneuvers in Missouri may remove one potential legal obstacle to Shuanghui International Holdings' proposed $4.7 billion purchase of Smithfield Foods Inc, which would be China's largest purchase to date of a U.S. company.
NEW YORK, June 10- U.S. stock index futures were higher on Monday after data showed Japan's economy gained momentum, while last week's employment report eased investor jitters that the Federal Reserve could slow the pace of its stimulus efforts in the very near-term.
NEW YORK, June 10- U.S. stock index futures were higher on Monday after data showed Japan's economy gained momentum, while investors were likely to continue to gauge when the Federal Reserve may slow the pace of its stimulus program.
June 9- Decades-old laws barring foreign ownership of farmland in Iowa, Missouri and at least three other Midwest states may complicate Shuanghui International's $4.7 billion planned purchase of U.S. pork powerhouse Smithfield Foods.
June 9- Decades-old laws barring foreign ownership of farmland in Iowa, Missouri and at least three other Midwest states may complicate Shuanghui International's $4.7 billion planned purchase of U.S. pork powerhouse Smithfield Foods.
June 6- The Mississippi River was reopened on Thursday along a five-mile stretch near St. Louis as waters receded after one of the worst floods on record halted barge traffic for four days on the main route to global markets on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
ST. LOUIS-- Monsanto Co. said Thursday that it will buy back up to $2 billion shares of the company's stock over a three-year period. Monsanto also declared its regularly quarterly dividend of 37.5 cents per share. Last month Monsanto increased its full-year profit prediction, citing continued strong global demand from corn growers.
The world's second-wealthiest man explains to CNBC why workers in Europe and other parts of the developed world are at the "best" part of their career after they reach their 60s.
Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 10:00 AM ETViolent protests broke out in eight Brazilian cities last night, with the worst violence occurring in Rio de Janeiro. Thousands of protesters threw Molotov cocktails and anything else they could find. The protests began over a 10-cent increase in bus and subway fares.
Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 11:05 AM ETFBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce describes how NSA surveillance helped to detect and thwart a plot to bomb the NYSE.