A Midwestern environmental group has followed through on its promise to formally challenge Peabody Energy’s ability to guarantee it has...
Articles by Alan Scher Zagier

Few of the tourists who drive old Route 66 through this rural Illinois town are aware of its true economic...
Few of the tourists who drive old Route 66 through this rural Illinois town are aware of its true economic...
Anheuser-Busch did not discriminate against a former executive by paying her significantly less than a male predecessor, a jury in...
A coalition of medical organizations and health care advocates has sued Missouri over its requirement that only state-licensed counselors can...
One worked in financial services. Another was an insurance agent. A third had recently finished law school and embarked on...
Eight months after a tornado laid waste to much of this city, Joplin, Mo., is wrestling with an emotional question:...
The top financial officer of insurance giant AIG defended the federal government’s $180 billion bailout of the company in a...
Citizens in four Midwestern states are cleaning up after violent storms killed three people in northern Missouri, damaged hundreds of...
From cracked oil and natural gas pipelines to contaminated public water supplies, the nation’s economy could be the biggest casualty...