[naviga:h3]Ronald Paule wins founders award[/naviga:h3]

Ronald W. Paule of the financial services firm Edward Jones in Butler won the firm’s Edward Jones Sr. Founders Award.

The award recognizes advisers who excel at building client relationships.

“It is quite inspirational to receive an award named after a firm legend such as Edward Jones Sr., who was so innovative and recognized the need for quality financial advice for long-term individual investors,” Paule said.

Paule was one of 2,358 of the firm’s 15,000 financial advisers to receive the award.

[naviga:h3]Frontier scales back Pittsburgh presence [/naviga:h3]

PITTSBURGH — Frontier Airlines is continuing to scale back its presence at Pittsburgh International Airport.

Frontier has opted to drop its daily flight to Las Vegas from the Pittsburgh International by Oct. 4. Frontier’s decision comes after the airline ended flights to Chicago and Atlanta last year.

The Denver-based airline will keep seasonal flights to Denver and Orlando.

Frontier spokesman Rich Oliver says the cuts aren’t indicative of poor performance. Oliver says the airline is flexible and can use aircraft for other routes where they are better suited.

[naviga:h3]Facebook tightens advertising policies[/naviga:h3]

NEW YORK — Facebook is apologizing for letting advertisers use phrases like “Jew-haters” as a targeting criteria and for not noticing it until it was pointed out.

The company is also tightening policies and tools that let businesses target advertisements to its 2 billion users, hoping to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.

The move follows a ProPublica report that found advertisers could use terms such as “how to burn Jews” to target ads to people with those terms in their profile.