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While Southwest Airlines commercial jets picked up scores of passengers Wednesday at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, a single-engine Cessna taxied to gate E33 where a small group of passengers quietly waited for their flight to Burlington, Iowa.
The Burlington flight is one of a handful of departures offered by Air Choice One. Based in south St. […]

Fears that car buyers would stay away from dealerships in August never materialized.
Instead, Americans were lured by new models, cheaper financing and the need to replace aging cars. As a result, August sales rose 7.5 percent compared with the same month last year, according to Autodata Corp.
Most major automakers reported healthy sales increases in August, […]

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President Barack Obama and his family are enjoying a vacation day at the beach on Martha’s Vineyard.
Obama, his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha were spending part of Sunday at a private beach in Edgartown, Mass.
It’s the first vacation outing by the Obamas since the family arrived on the island resort to begin a […]

The leaders of France and Germany are pushing all 17 nations that use the euro to enshrine balanced budgets in their constitutions and want greater collective governance of the eurozone.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel want a “true European economic government” that would consist of the heads of state and […]

As students troop off to college this fall, parents with children of all ages have their heads spinning from a volatile investment year of troubling world and national events.
That makes it the perfect time for them to get their heads on straight. Early, regular investment in their children’s future, made just like a car or […]

Clayton-based Spellman Brady & Co. provided the furniture and signs for the recent renovation of Anheuser-Busch Hall at Fontbonne University.
The three-story, 44,000 square-foot building houses three departments

Concerns over the U.S. economy and Europe

Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc., which reported flat earnings on Wednesday after becoming a public company a week earlier, said it plans to rejuvenate the struggling Baskin-Robbins brand in the U.S. and expand its Dunkin’ Donuts chain into Europe.
Dunkin’ Donuts’ U.S. revenue grew 6.3 percent over the year, helped by the success of new stores. But […]