A who’s who of area politicians showed up to support Robin Carnahan’s Senate race on Sunday afternoon. Among the speakers were Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, and U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-St. Louis).

Students are bracing for sweeping flight cuts by American Airlines at St. Louis’ Lambert airport as the already struggling local business community prepare to take a hit. The cuts, which will occur in phases through April 2010, will leave students from 15 cities with no non-stop service from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, unless other airlines backfill those routes.