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The smoldering debate over European austerity flared hotter Tuesday as the left-wing politician trying to form a new Greek government declared that his country is no longer bound by its pledges to impose crippling cutbacks in return for rescue loans.
The comments by Alexis Tsipras flew in the face of EU leaders’ insistence on fiscal discipline […]

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ST. LOUIS • The Rams’ plan to renovate the Edward Jones Dome is signed, sealed, delivered — but not yours to see.
The Rams and the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission, the public agency that operates the Dome, are not releasing the team’s proposal, even though taxpayers would likely fund the bulk of the improvements.
Officials […]

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News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch defended his globe-spanning, half-a-century long media career Wednesday, telling an inquiry into U.K. media ethics that he never called in favors from the powerful people his papers covered.
Speaking softly, deliberately and with dry humor, Murdoch parried one question after the other about the influence his dominant media operations had in […]

On Saturday, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Marc Bowers is throwing an ideas conference for the rest of us.
It’s the first-ever ProductCamp St. Louis, a daylong “unconference” designed to help share ideas and insights among, as Bowers puts it, “people who are in mundane, old-school industries,” like manufacturing, consumer goods and telecommunications.
Unlike many entrepreneurship […]

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O’Fallon, Mo. • This time last year, O’Fallon Brewery was fading out of sight.
After growing for most of a decade, St. Louis’ second-largest craft brewer hit a wall. Its co-founders ran out of cash. Beer-making ground to a halt. Six-packs on store shelves dwindled.
But now O’Fallon is on pace to sell more in 2012 than […]

Turning up the heat on talks aimed at making sure nonprofit hospitals do enough charitable work, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn stuck to his Thursday deadline and authorized the Department of Revenue to resume decisions that could strip some health care institutions of valuable tax exemptions.
The Democratic governor’s action came a day after negotiations failed to […]

The official who supervised the U.K. police’s much-criticized initial inquiry into Britain’s phone hacking scandal says a crush of terrorism cases meant he had no choice but to curtail media investigation.
Former Scotland Yard counterterrorism chief Peter Clarke says his force was so stretched by the threat of al-Qaida attacks in 2005 it had to enlist […]

The stock market struggled for direction Friday as developments on Greek debt talks idled and U.S. inflation came in at expected levels.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose as much as 49 points in early trading before giving up some of those gains. It was up 28 points to 12,932 at 11:30 a.m.
It was a quiet […]

Greece is confident a debt relief deal with private creditors that is crucial to avoid default can be reached “very soon,” a government spokesman said Friday.
Prime Minister Lucas Papademos met for a third day with negotiators from the Institute of International Finance, which represents the private creditors who are being asked to take a loss […]