Two financial institutions based in central Illinois are merging in a cash-and-stock deal valued at over $170 million. HBT Financial (NASDAQ: HBT) is merging with CNB Bank Shares (OTC: CNBN). HBT is ...

Co-Angler receives $315,000 in pitch contest from a Pennsylvania-based philanthropic foundation. This item is for subscribers only.

The Trump administration is reportedly cutting a $197 million federal grant that had been awarded for a $500 million battery plant in north St. Louis. The grant was for ICL Specialty Products Inc. The ...

Jefferson City-based Central Bancompany Inc. (OTC: CBCY), which does business as The Central Trust Bank and operates locally as Central Bank of the Ozarks, has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities ...

Johnson & Johnson was told by a California jury to pay $966 million to the family of a deceased woman who blamed her cancer on life-long use of the company’s baby powder in the largest verdict for a ...

After another bittersweet end to the summer box office season, American multiplexes are going to “shake it off.” The AMC-distributed “Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl” opened ...

Springfield-Greene County Animal Control plans to facilitate the growing needs of the Springfield and Greene County communities with a modern animal shelter facility.

At Jo’s Gather’n Place, the person at the next table might be a line worker or a secretary – or an author and CEO dining with a university president. Jack Stack, president and CEO of SRC Holdings Corp ...

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Out of the Darkness Community Walks comes to Battlefield City Park on Sept. 27.

Councilmember Brandon Jenson says city, not developers, should be expected to fix existing problems with infrastructure. This item is for subscribers only.

Just shy of 15 months after breaking ground on a cold storage facility in Partnership Industrial Center West, the Erlen Group celebrated the opening of the $57 million plant with a ribbon-cutting ...