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The franchise owner of local Chevys Fresh Mex restaurants has filed for bankruptcy and plans to shutter a store at the St. Louis Mills mall in Hazelwood.
The closure of the Hazelwood Chevys, which is expected to occur in the next few days, follows T&J Restaurants’ closure of the Chevys in Columbia, Mo., earlier this week.
T&J […]

The Continental Life high-rise apartment building in Midtown

A much-anticipated drug for advanced lung cancer from Pfizer Inc. appears to double survival over standard drugs against tumors with a certain genetic mutation, according to research presented Sunday.
The drug, called crizotinib, would be the first targeted treatment for the roughly 50,000 people who get this cancer each year worldwide. It might eventually produce annual […]

Ashland Inc. is buying specialty chemical maker International Specialty Products Inc. for about $3.2 billion in cash.
The chemical company, based in Covington, Ky., said Tuesday that the acquisition of privately owned ISP will expand its presence in high-growth markets including personal care, pharmaceutical and energy.
Ashland plans to use available cash and committed financing from several […]

Buying a house in the city or suburbs can be complicated enough, but buying a cottage or vacation property outside of town requires even more due diligence.
In town, you probably wouldn

The euro fell the most in four months against the dollar after European Central Bank President Jean- Claude Trichet signaled he may not raise interest rates next month and concern grew that Greece’s debt crisis is worsening.
The shared currency tumbled yesterday by the most in a year after Germany’s Spiegel magazine said Greece may […]

Maggie Strachan has been a stay-at-home mom, a part-time university instructor in city and regional planning, and lived, worked and volunteered in the Arctic and in Africa.
Retired for 10 years, she relies on Old Age Security, the Canada Pension Plan, and her own savings.

When Missouri voters approved the state’s renewable energy law in the fall of 2008, the ballot proposal evoked images of graceful wind turbines and gleaming solar arrays.
What it produced, instead, was two years of bickering, litigation and regulatory limbo - not to mention fewer clean energy projects than envisioned.
Now, with time running out in the […]

Thanks to lower unemployment and fewer bankruptcies, the nation’s economic stress edged down in February as all but five states strengthened from January, according to The Associated Press’ monthly analysis.
Three states that were hit hardest by the recession and have suffered since _ Florida, Arizona and Georgia _ enjoyed the sharpest gains in February.
Unemployment declined […]

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