Industrials

An Alabama company that made a tractor-trailer hitch involved in a deadly Ohio crash last year is bowing to government pressure and will recall 6,800 hitches.

More than a year after suing the Cabinet agency that oversees China's biggest state-owned companies, lawyers for people who say their homes were ruined by Chinese drywall are still trying to get the lawsuit served.

A Murray Energy subsidiary and the United Mine Workers of America have settled a lawsuit over the company's use of non-union workers to perform work on seals at an underground coal mine in north-central West Virginia.

An athletic building under construction at a private Rhode Island university has collapsed, injuring six construction workers.

Toyota plans to spend $16 million to renovate and expand a central Indiana factory where it builds three-and four-wheel forklifts and other equipment.

Greek police have arrested two union leaders after hundreds of miners blocked roads to protest the temporary closure of a controversial gold mine in northern Greece.

The Seabrook Station nuclear power plant was conceived during the turbulent 1970s and was under construction when accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl stoked fears of a global nuclear calamity.

On a remote Utah ridge, a Canadian company is about to embark on something never before done commercially in the United States — digging sticky, black, tar-soaked sand from the ground and extracting the petroleum.

Verso Paper Corp. will significantly scale back production in Maine, costing 300 jobs at its mill in Jay, officials with the Tennessee-based company Thursday.

The Chemours Co. is closing its Delaware titanium dioxide production facility, which employs about 200 workers, the former performance chemicals business spun off from the DuPont Co. said Thursday.

U.S. Steel Corp. says it is closing its Fairfield Works mill near Birmingham, Alabama.

Allegheny Technologies Inc. plans to lock out roughly 2,200 workers at plants in Pennsylvania and five other states starting Saturday.

Oil and gas industry watchers say pump prices have jumped across the Great Lakes region because of the unexpected, partial shutdown of a large Indiana oil refinery.

A little-used gas-fired power plant built by the Southern Montana Electricity Generation and Transmission Cooperative and at least partly blamed for the wholesale electricity supplier's 2011 bankruptcy will be taken apart and resold for its parts.

Local officials in towns downstream from where millions of gallons of mine waste spilled into a southwest Colorado river are demanding answers about possible long-term threats to the water supply.

Emergency crews are on the scene of a massive explosion at a southeast Missouri aluminum plant.

As it tries to get the most out of each of its $2.6 billion attack submarines, the U.S. Navy is finding a lot depends on the right paint job.

The manufacturer of the jet that crashed on takeoff last year, killing the co-owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer and six other people, reports a problem with a fail-safe system.

Boeing Co. broke ground Wednesday on a new $80 million, 290,000-square-foot building that will house about 800 new employees and be the third structure in the aerospace company's growing Oklahoma City campus.

A mining contractor has been shot dead in Chile after clashing with police during protests by workers employed by service contractors at the state-run copper giant Codelco.