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…

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster’s office announced today that it has filed suits against six companies selling extended auto-service contracts and alleged that the firms, all located in suburban St. Louis, tricked consumers into buying so-called “extended warranties” through unfair…

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 &…

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…

A reader called today to chide me about Tuesday’s blog post about US Fidelis suing a competitor over copyright infringement. The caller, who wouldn’t give me his name, took issue with this graf:

(US Fidelis knows a thing or two about…

A California couple will pay $35,000 to settle a suit alleging their companies — Smart Funding Corporation and Ariant Solutions — cold-called Missourians who had registered their phone numbers on the Do-Not-Call Registry, Attorney General Chris Koster’s office announced Wednesday.

Madhulika and…

I wrote a story in Tuesday’s paper about cancellation penalties assessed by Mogi, a St. Charles-based broker of extended auto-service contracts. If you’re interested in more information about the allegations against the company, you’re in luck: here is the federal…

In this blog back in April, I wrote about a federal lawsuit that AT&T Mobility filed against several “John Doe” companies that allegedly cold-called its cell-phone customers in order to sell them extended auto-service contracts.

AT&T Mobility alleges that the defendants…