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Airport use grows 99 percent since Mesaba's arrival (Columbia Missourian)
COLUMBIA - Bob Eckle, who works in marketing, has been using the Columbia Regional Airport for about a month. A frequent flier who travels at least three times a month for his job, Eckle used to fly out of St. Louis or Kansas City because it required fewer layovers than flying from Columbia. Now he catches flights out of Columbia because he can connect to his destinations via Memphis. Eckle ... 1934 football team highlights SMCC Hall of Fame Class (The Sandusky Register)
SANDUSKY The ninth annual St. Mary Central Catholic Athletic and Achievement Hall of Fame banquet Sunday will recognize eight individuals and a football team at the Sandusky Yacht Club. 2008 Year in Review: McCain won county, Obama made history (Suburban Journals)
LAST OF THREE PARTS John McCain led Barack Obama in St. Charles County by nearly 10 percent, but it was the Democrats who celebrated Nov. 4 when it became clear Obama would become the nation's 44th commander-in-chief and first black president. St. Louis sports fought through a tough year (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
It was a disappointing, frustrating and often sad 2008 for St. Louis-area sports. Unfortunately, most of the top stories were about the deaths of notable individuals, and the competitive decline of our favorite teams. Uma Thurman No Help to Arpad Busson in Madoff Fraud's Nightmare (Bloomberg)
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Arpad Busson is angry. He's just looked at the latest returns of a hedge fund he used to invest in; it's down more than 60 percent in the past nine months. Mom drives herself, others to school (Suburban Journals)
On some school days, the Nellis house in Ballwin is hard to miss. Beth, the mom in the family, parks school bus No. 48 there between her morning and afternoon runs for nearby Selvidge Middle School. 2008: Year in Review (The Woodlands Villager)
Editor's note: The following is a month-by-month recap of some of the top newsmaking events of 2008. Local news in brief Jan. 8 (Santa Fe New Mexican)
Photo: Open spaces Abel Maez, with Otero Contracting, rides a roller over a gravel parking lot across the street from the Capitol. The lot will be used for overflow parking when the legislative session starts Jan. 20. Team studies ticket prices (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Under normal circumstances, the Green Bay Packers would be expected to raise ticket prices for the 2009 season. That's because they didn't raise them last year and, for most of this decade, have had an increase every other year. From ratings to reviews, the NHL's epic Winter Classic victory (Yahoo! Canada Sports)
The concept of "overwhelming success" and Wrigley Field are usually diametrically opposed' but the ratings news from the NHL regarding the 2009 Winter Classic is really rather impressive: NHL Winter Classic 2009, broadcast New Year's Day on NBC from historic Wrigley Field, earned a 2.9 overnight rating and a 6 share (1-4:15 p.m. ET), the best overnight NHL regular season rating in nearly ...
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