Icelandic Budget Airline WOW Air Ceases Operations

By EGILL BJARNASON Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Icelandic budget airline WOW Air ceased operations on Thursday, stranding passengers across two continents. In a statement on its website the airline, which had earlier suspended all its flights, told passengers there would be no further flights and advised them to check flights with other airlines…

Gander Mountain to Open O’Fallon, MO, Store

ST. LOUIS (KTRS)  Gander Mountain is coming to O’Fallon, Missouri – that’s according to investor and Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis. On his Twitter feed, Lemonis confirmed an O’Fallon, Missouri, Gander Mountain is planned and that the Gander Mountain stores in Chesterfield, Fenton and O’Fallon, Illinois will stay open. Camping World bought Gander Mountain this year…

St. Louis-Based Peabody Files For Bankruptcy

St. Louis, MO  (KTRS)  There’s more bad news for the coal industry. St. Louis-based Peabody Energy, the nation’s largest coal miner, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday. The filing comes less than three months after Creve Couer based Arch Coal, the country’s second-largest miner, filed for bankruptcy. Mines and offices at Peabody, a company…