St. Louis-based Celtic Painting has agreed to pay $3,000 to settle a state lawsuit accusing the house-painting company of violating waste-management regulations, according to the office of Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster.

Celtic Painting could be required to pay more than…

According to Koster's office, the dealerships issued temporary tags to cars that shouldn't have been on the road — but not to this particular jalopy.

UPDATED 11:50 a.m., Nov. 20 with clarification from Attorney General’s Office. See second and third grafs.

Several…

Reporters being summoned to press conferences in Kansas City and St. Louis tomorrow are told that Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster will announce new enforcement actions his office is taking against companies selling extended auto-service contracts.

Nanci Gonder, a spokeswoman for…

The tax man might be looking for you. And, this time, that’s good news.

Internal Revenue Service said today it is trying to track down the rightful owners of more than 107,000 refund checks worth more than $123.5 million. The U.S. Postal…

An area locksmith technician is facing federal fraud charges stemming from alleged overcharging by Clearwater, Fla.-based Dependable Locks, which manages a network of at least 100 locksmiths operating in cities nationwide, including St. Louis.

The allegations, which were reported yesterday in…

Fraudsters trying to steal Missourians’ personal information are posing in e-mails as a state official, according to the office of Treasurer Clint Zweifel, which warned of the phishing scam Wednesday.

The phony e-mails promise to help Missourians obtain unclaimed property held by…

Faithful readers of this blog might remember the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuits against four makers of bamboo-derived clothing. The FTC accused the companies of making false, unsubstantiated claims that their products are “green” and that the textiles retain the anti-microbial…

Attorney General Chris Koster today sued a wealthy Missouri developer and two Florida companies for allegedly calling Missouri consumers whose numbers are listed on the state’s do-not-call registry.

In a press release, Koster’s office said the companies — Summer Bay Sales &…

When the Federal Trade Commission released a reinterpretation of its product-endorsement rules this month,  regulators may not have been prepared for the howls of protest that it would generate online.

The FTC’s initial announcement seemed to suggest that the commission would target bloggers…

AT&T Missouri will pay the federal government $1.4 million to settle a civil suit that accused the company of violating competitive-bidding rules and cheating a program that subsidizes connecting schools to the Internet, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.

The…