St. Charles County Business Record, MO articles from June 2008

St. Charles County Business Record, MO archives from June 2008

After the flood plan, Premier 370 Business Park in St. Peters faces economic delay.
June 2, 2008... Byline: Mike Trask A decision last week by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to revise its flood map brings the planned Premier 370 Business Park in St. Peters one step closer to becoming a reality. FEMA sent a letter to the city...

St. Charles County study indicates trend moves to building smaller homes.
June 2, 2008... Byline: Mike Trask A recent St. Charles County government analysis of housing stock in the county found what many people already suspected -- that builders constructed bigger and more expensive homes each year from 2000 to 2007. But that...

St. Charles County Business Record News Digest: June 2, 2008.
June 2, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Web site: O'Fallon is a top place to live; the rest of Missouri, not so much For the second consecutive year RelocateAmerica has ranked O'Fallon as one of its best 100 places to live....

Web site: O'Fallon is a top place to live; the rest of Missouri, not so much.(Website overview)
June 2, 2008... Byline: Staff report For the second consecutive year RelocateAmerica has ranked O'Fallon as one of its best 100 places to live. O'Fallon is the only Missouri city to make the Web site's list this year. The Web site maintains approximately...

Assessor has more info for seniors.
June 2, 2008... Byline: Staff report The St. Charles County Assessor has scheduled additional presentations to assist seniors and the disabled in obtaining a credit or rebate from state government on their real estate taxes. The Property Tax Credit...

Crisis Nursery raises $95,500.
June 2, 2008... Byline: Staff report Crisis Nursery says its annual charity golf tournament raised approximately $95,500. The event was held May 19 at Old Hickory Golf Club in St. Peters. Crisis Nursery is a not-for-profit that works to prevent child...

St. Charles-based Lindenwood Univ. hires Clark to direct economics institute.
June 2, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Lindenwood University in St. Charles has named Anthony Clark as the new director of the school's Institute for Study of Economics and the Environment. Clark, who taught economics at...

Francis Howell Board of Education hires Patterson as student services director.
June 2, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The Francis Howell Board of Education has hired Jennifer Patterson as the school district's new director of student services and operations. Patterson previously worked for the Lincoln County...

SSM St. Joseph Health Center employees recognized.
June 2, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Six SSM St. Joseph employees have been named recipients of awards that the St. Charles County healthcare provider hands out in celebration of National Hospital Week. The 2008 Lee Oppeau...

Man asked St. Louis Circuit Court to toss long-delayed $1.5M judgment.
June 3, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese A man who found out a $1.5 million judgment had been entered against him and his business years after the case was heard wants the court to throw it out and start over. Russell Vitt asked the St. Louis Circuit Court to...

St. Louis judge throws out most of priest sex abuse lawsuit.
June 4, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese Finding that to do otherwise would violate the separation between church and state, a St. Louis judge has thrown out most of a lawsuit against the area's Catholic Archdiocese alleging a priest abused a young girl in the...

KC legal 'giant' John Dods dies.
June 4, 2008... Byline: Aaron Bailey After a half century of working in the Kansas City legal arena, prominent attorney John C. Dods III died Monday. He was 74. Dods had practiced at Shook, Hardy & Bacon since 1958, specializing in business and...

Eviction service seeks policy changes.
June 6, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter The St. Louis County Sheriff's Office is diverting business from a moving company in retaliation for the owner's help uncovering a bribery scandal that led to the conviction of four deputies, a federal lawsuit alleges....

Suit to be filed today over delays in granting citizenship.
June 6, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese About three-dozen Muslim immigrants plan to file suit today in federal court alleging the U.S. government has illegally delayed their applications to become citizens. Similar lawsuits have been popping up around the...

Commentary: Make the best of an unfavorable trend.
June 6, 2008... Byline: Christine Ann Hughes Last month, a Kansas City law firm laid off over 100 employees nationwide. It appeared that support staff received the brunt, with one local paper reporting 41 secretaries were included in the layoff and...

Support for St. Charles County road projects sought.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The public is asked to attend a meeting tonight to show their support for federal aid surface transportation funding for St. Charles County projects. The meeting will be held from 4 to 7 p.m....

Global Spectrum offers unique internship.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Global Spectrum, operator of the St. Charles Convention Center, is offering a unique internship opportunity for students that revolves around planning and promoting the Kids Block Party....

Francis Howell School District seeks to extend tax levy.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The Francis Howell School District Board of Education voted last month to put a measure on the Aug. 5 ballot that will ask voters to extend 20 cents of its operating tax levy that is set to...

St. Charles County Sheriff's Dept's crime lab earns accreditation.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The St. Charles County Sheriff's Department's crime lab was awarded accreditation under the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors / Laboratory Accreditation Board Legacy Program....

River City Rascals offer peanut-free areas.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The River City Rascals have designated Section 109 as a Peanut-Free area during every Wednesday home game to provide a place for people with food allergies to watch the game and avoid the...

O'Fallon's Clean Uniform turns 70.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff O'Fallon city officials made a special appearance and presentation at Clean the Uniform Company to mark the 70th birthday of this successful family-owned business. Clean Uniform Day was...

St. Charles-area chambers of commerce hold ribbon-cuttings.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The O'Fallon Chamber of Commerce June 5 conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Mozingo Music, 4689 Highway K in Laboure Centre. A ribbon-cutting was held June 4 at My Child's Dentist, 2958...

Missouri Wing of the Commemorative Air Force will pay millions to Keep 'em Flying.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The Missouri Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) has announced it has launched a $2 million Keep 'em Flying campaign designed to keep its three World War II aircraft maintained in...

Lindenwood University names Brad Pearson head of grad business programs.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Lindenwood University has hired Brad Pearson as its director of graduate business programs where he will be responsible for promoting the school's MBA programs. Lindenwood said Pearson will...

Missouri Botanical Garden hires Rebecca Ingram-Kutey as HR VP.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The Missouri Botanical Garden has hired Rebecca Ingram-Kutey of St. Charles as vice president of its Human Resource Management Division. She will oversee diversity initiatives, recruitment...

St. Charles homebuilder Tom Hughes named to Ritenour Hall of Fame.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Ritenour High School in St. Louis County has named St. Charles homebuilder Tom Hughes to its Hall of Fame. Hughes graduated from the high school in 1969. The high school said it selected...

St. Peters Chamber of Commerce honors six teachers.
June 9, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The St. Peters Chamber of Commerce is recognizing six local teachers for their excellence in the classroom. The winning teachers for the 2007-08 school year are as follows: Julie Castello...

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has 2,500 job openings.
June 9, 2008... Byline: Sarah Wienke Want to do something about illegal immigration? The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol would like to talk with you. The Border Patrol held a two-day recruiting event last week at the St. Charles County Convention Center,...

ShowMe Aquatics & Fitness: The one that got away.
June 9, 2008... Byline: Mike Trask The very real possibility that ShowMe Aquatics & Fitness will not build an aquatics center at the so-called Noah's Ark site in St. Charles has commercial developer Cullinan Properties Ltd. pondering its options. ShowMe...

Permuter named associate judge in St. Louis County.
June 10, 2008... Byline: St. Louis Daily Record Staff Report Private attorney Lawrence J. Permuter has been tapped to become a judge. Gov. Matt Blunt announced late last week that he has selected Permuter, 61, to be an associate circuit judge for the 21st...

Commentary: Standing up for traditional marriage.
June 10, 2008... Byline: Gov. Matt Blunt Missourians made their voices heard in 2004 by defining marriage as between one man and one woman in our state's constitution. I believe, as do the majority of Missourians, that marriage is between one man and one...

Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr. will step down so Limbaugh Jr. can take seat.
June 11, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter When newly appointed federal judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. joins the bench, his father will have to leave the court for good. A federal law prohibits relatives from serving on the same court. Neither of us were aware...

Sentence for bomb comment reversed by Missouri Court of Appeals Western District.
June 11, 2008... Byline: Charles Emerick An appellate panel on Tuesday determined there was not enough evidence to prosecute a Nodaway County teenager who made a remark about blowing up his school. The unanimous ruling from the Missouri Court of Appeals...

Missouri Supreme Court says hunters can't blame landowners for accidents.
June 11, 2008... Byline: Allison Retka When Missouri landowners give people free access to their land, they are immune to any suits filed over injuries or deaths on the property, the state Supreme Court decided Wednesday. For Hermann farmers Carlton and...

Missouri Supreme Court: Cities can be sued over police actions.
June 11, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese While individual police officers are immune from being sued for their conduct during a police chase, their government employer can still be held liable, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The Supreme Court...

Missouri Supreme Court sets precedent for inverse takings.
June 11, 2008... Byline: Aaron Bailey The state's high court has opened the door for damage recovery from an undue delay between a blight designation and condemnation. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a summary judgment in favor of Gladstone...

Dog-bite suit in Jackson County nets $7.55M award.
June 12, 2008... Byline: Aaron Bailey A Jackson County judge awarded $7.25 million to a man who was viciously mauled by several pit bulls in 2006, finding the owners of the rental property where the dogs were kept were liable. Associate Circuit Judge...

Missouri Supreme Court rules class decertified in quarry blast suit.
June 12, 2008... Byline: Angela Riley Homeowners who live near the Fred Weber quarry in O'Fallon, Mo., do not qualify as a class in a lawsuit against the quarry, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. In a unanimous ruling, the Missouri Supreme Court...

War of words begins over Limbaugh vacancy on the Missouri Supreme Court.
June 12, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter Despite new rules designed to open up the selection process, groups critical of Missouri's nonpartisan court plan are gearing up for a fight over who will succeed Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. on the state Supreme...

Mural owner asks to have suit against the city of St. Louis reinstated.
June 12, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter The lawyer for a man protesting the use of eminent domain asked a federal appellate panel to reinstate a lawsuit his client filed against the city of St. Louis and its Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority....

Judge in Missouri upholds ruling of discrimination.
June 12, 2008... Byline: Charles Emerick A trial court judge on Wednesday upheld a verdict for Melissa Howard on her claims of race discrimination during the municipal court judicial selection process. Judge Gerald McBeth denied post-trial requests,...

Family's Eastern District of Missouri lawsuit leads to review of national lead standard.
June 13, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese Leslie and Jack Warden sued the Environmental Protection Agency four years ago to get the federal government to consider tougher standards for lead in the air. The fruits of that lawsuit were playing out in a modest...

Missouri's Eastern District Court of Appeals considers candidate's residency.
June 13, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese State appeals court judges have expressed skepticism about a Senate candidate's argument that a lower judge had no authority to rule against her. The Eastern District Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday in a...

Gov. Blunt appoints attorney as St. Louis County election chair.
June 13, 2008... Byline: St. Louis Daily Record Staff Report Gov. Matt Blunt has appointed a St. Louis attorney as the chairman of the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners. John Fox Arnold is returning to the commission after having previously...

St. Louis Circuit judge orders telemarketer to pay $450,000 for No Call List violations.
June 13, 2008... Byline: St. Louis Daily Record Staff Report A fundraising telemarketer that continued to make solicitations to Missourians even after being told by consumers to stop will pay $450,000 to the state of Missouri under a consent judgment....

McFadden sentenced to death by St. Louis County Circuit judge.
June 13, 2008... Byline: St. Louis Daily Record Staff Report Once again, Vincent McFadden has received the death sentence. McFadden was retried in April of this year in the 2003 fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend's sister. A jury trial again resulted in a...

St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch sued over offer.
June 13, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter Anheuser-Busch Cos. was sued Thursday by a shareholder who claims the directors are breaching their fiduciary duty by considering InBev's takeover offer. It's the second suit over the possible deal and a third one may...

St. Louis area's Youth in Need launches new Web site.(Website overview)
June 14, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Youth In Need, an agency serving children throughout St. Louis city and St. Louis, St. Charles, Lincoln, Warren and Montgomery counties, has launched a new Web site, www.youthinneed.org. The...

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Case Summaries: June 14, 2008.(Case overview)
June 14, 2008... Byline: Business Record Staff Appellate practice Challenge to ordinances; mootness ED89659 Stephanie Reynolds, Florence Streeter, Jacqueline Gray, and St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council, Inc., Respondents/Cross-Appellants &...

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District Case Summaries: June 14, 2008.(Case overview)
June 14, 2008... Byline: Business Record Staff Domestic relations Child support; license suspension 28443 Kenneth Scott Laughlin, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Janice Florence Abney, a/k/a Janice Florence Witthaus, a/k/a Janice McDowell, Defendant, and...

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District Case Summaries: June 14, 2008.(Case overview)
June 14, 2008... Byline: Business Record Staff Domestic relations Maintenance; failure to pay WD68273 Robert J. Halamicek, Appellant v. Joann Halamicek, Respondent. Handdown Date: 06/03/2008 Appeal From: Circuit Court of Jackson County, Hon. Justine E....

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: June 15, 2008.(Case overview)
June 15, 2008... Byline: Business Record Staff Civil practice Class action; securities 07-2931 In re: NVE Corp. Securities Litigation, Brian G. Beatty; Shawn Aaron; Andrew G. Cauley, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated,...

Downtown St. Charles bars sue over food requirement.
June 16, 2008... Byline: Sarah Wienke A judge is expected to rule this week on whether St. Charles can enforce an amendment to its liquor licensing laws that the owners of two historic Main Street bars say will put them out of business. Hearings on the...

St. Charles County Business Record News Briefs: June 16, 2008.
June 16, 2008... Byline: Mike Trask Outsourcing work to foreign countries has been a controversial issue and a political football for many years. Large corporations started the practice decades ago and since then smaller companies and even state...

Building through the slump in St. Charles.
June 16, 2008... Byline: Mike Trask Homebuilder Greg Whittaker said he is lucky that he is not as heavily in debt as are many other builders in this region and in many other parts of the country. Others might say he was shrewder than the others. While...

Commentary: How to market your small business.
June 16, 2008... Byline: Ed Mayuga After a long career in sales with the pharmaceutical industry, I recently joined a business completely outside my area of expertise. Faced with a challenge of learning as much as I could about this business, in this case...

Wells Fargo sued over auction-rate securities.
June 16, 2008... Byline: Business Record Staff The St. Louis law firm of Carey & Danis has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of people who purchased auction-rate securities from Wells Fargo & Co. and Wells Fargo Investments between June 11, 2003, and...

Wamhoff Financial Planning comes to St. Charles.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Wamhoff Financial Planning & Accounting Services, which claims to be the largest independent financial planning firm in Missouri, is expanding into St. Charles County. The company,...

Lindenwood University wins investment contest.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Brad Nowak, an MBA graduate student from Lindenwood University, was recognized this month for winning the second annual Intercollegiate Investment Contest, sponsored by Principia College and...

SBA launches new Web site for small businesses.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The U.S. Small Business Administration has created an online tax savings resource center to help small businesses understand how they can benefit from the 2008 economic stimulus package. The...

New edition of St. Charles County's LifeScape coming soon.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The fourth annual edition of LifeScape, a St. Charles County regional magazine, will be available in September. Open ad sales are now under way and 25,000 copies are scheduled for...

Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital participates in disaster drill.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital participated last month in a statewide disaster drill in conjunction with Central County Fire & Rescue, St. Peters Police Department and the St. Charles...

St. Louis Cardinals Care gives to Give Kids A Smile.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff St. Louis Cardinals Care recently donated $5,000 to St. Charles County-based Give Kids A Smile (GKAS). The organization also has extended an invitation to GKAS to offer dental care services...

O'Fallon earns Bronze Quill award.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff An IABC Bronze Quill Award of Excellence recently was given to O'Fallon's Public Relations Department for its entry, The O'Fallon Recycling Campaign. The campaign consisted of a Roscoe...

St. Charles County's crime lab earns accreditation.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The St. Charles County Sheriff's Department's crime lab was awarded accreditation under the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board Legacy Program,...

Wentzville Chamber of Commerce adds members.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff The Wentzville Chamber of Commerce has held a successful membership drive, bringing in 22 new members. The Wentzville Chamber now has 420 members.

Midwest BankCentre names Bruce J. Dyck senior VP.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Midwest BankCentre has hired Bruce J. Dyck as senior vice president, according to Fred Dyer, the bank's president of commercial banking. In his new job, Dyck serves existing commercial and...

Jim Curran re-elected to Missouri Economic Development Council's board.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Jim Curran, managing director of economic development for O'Fallon, was re-elected recently to the Missouri Economic Development Council's board of directors and as the director of MEDC's...

3 join SSM Clinic in Troy.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Drs. Lewis Meyerson and Joy Stowell have joined SSM Health Care's St. Charles Clinic Medical Group in Troy. SSM said the two doctors came from an established practice in Troy that was known...

James L. Schulze of Troy re-elected to FCS Financial's board.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Stockholders have re-elected James L. Schulze of Troy, Mo., to a three-year term on FCS Financial's board of directors. Schulze is a grain and livestock farmer who has served on the board...

St. Charles FedEx driver wins championship.
June 16, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Lawrence O'Neal, a driver for FedEx National of St. Charles, recently won the title of Grand Champion in the 2008 Missouri Truck Driving Championships, held June 6 and 7 at the John Q....

Med-mal case in Missouri challenges doc's privacy.
June 17, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese A state appeals court has been asked to decide just how far privacy reaches with medical information. A medical malpractice lawsuit is pending in St. Louis County Circuit Court, where a man alleges his doctor botched a...

Officers elected to Lawyers Association of St. Louis.
June 17, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff William S. Thomas has assumed the presidency of The Lawyers Association of St. Louis. The officers were elected during an association picnic and softball game at Tilles Park on May 9. Thomas...

Missouri courts split over attorney calls in DUIs.
June 18, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter The Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis separated itself from its Kansas City counterpart in a decision dealing with the time an alleged drunken driver has to contact an attorney. The Court of Appeals said Tuesday...

McDaniel receives senior lawyer award from Bar Assn. of Metropolitan St. Louis.
June 18, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff Attorney James E. McDaniel is this year's winner of the William L. Weiss award from the bar group for St. Louis attorneys. The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis board of governors...

St. Louis election officials scramble, waiting for court.
June 18, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese Absentee ballots must be available by Tuesday, yet St. Louis election officials haven't sent theirs to the printer yet. They're stuck waiting for a court decision. The issue arises because Robin Wright-Jones, a St....

Court in Missouri grants lawyer fees for two appeals.
June 19, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter Court-appointed lawyers working on appeals in parental termination cases have the right to get paid for the work they do at each stage of the appeal, according to an appeals court ruling this week. The decision means...

Millions available on unclaimed property list in Missouri.
June 19, 2008... Byline: Angela Riley With food and gas prices up, many are looking for ways to stretch their dollar or earn extra cash. But according to the State Treasurer's Office, one in 10 Missourians won't have to go far to find extra money. They...

Lack of agreement leads to judgment for GKN Aerospace in County Circuit Court.
June 19, 2008... Byline: Angela Riley A St. Louis attorney has won a $778,576 summary judgment in St. Louis County for an aerospace manufacturer that was not paid for its recycled scrap and junk metal. Daniel C. Cox, of Thompson Coburn, argued on behalf of...

Missouri Court of Appeal denies medical privacy claim.
June 19, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff In a victory for injured plaintiffs, a state appeals court has found a doctor's medical records can be obtained as part of a medical malpractice lawsuit. Plaintiff John Campbell's attorney...

St. Louis Circuit Court: Another lawsuit filed over Anheuser-Busch deal.
June 19, 2008... Byline: St. Charles County Business Record Staff A third lawsuit has now been filed over InBev's offer to acquire St. Louis brewer Anheuser-Busch Cos. The suit, filed Monday in St. Louis Circuit Court, makes similar claims to one filed June...

Missouri Court of Appeals says Johnson still off August ballot.
June 19, 2008... Byline: Kelly Wiese Rep. Connie Johnson's shot at making the August primary ballot dimmed Wednesday, when a state appeals court ruled that she was not qualified. Rep. Robin Wright-Jones, another St. Louis Democrat, had sued, alleging...

Missouri Western District Court of Appeals continues to shoot down retroactive sex-offender records.
June 19, 2008... Byline: Aaron Bailey An appellate court ruling Tuesday further establishes that law enforcement officials can't disseminate, or even retain, records and photos obtained in unlawful sex offender registrations. Tuesday's ruling piggybacks...

Solicitations are offers of credit, 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decides.
June 20, 2008... Byline: Donna Walter A federal appeals court put an end to lawsuits claiming companies violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act by sending direct mail solicitations for loans. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decisions of...