Industrials

Dredging work in the Snake and Clearwater rivers near the Idaho and Washington state border to aid barge traffic is finished.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Boeing fell $.68 or .4 percent, to $151.05.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Delta Air fell $.59 or 1.3 percent, to $45.33.

Shares of some top construction companies are down at 10 a.m.: Fluor fell $.36 or .6 percent, to $58.83.

Shares of some top airlines companies were down at the close of trading: Delta Air fell $.92 or 2.0 percent, to $45.92.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal Service to pay a worker almost $230,000 in damages for the retaliation he suffered when he helped a co-worker with her workplace health concerns.

Shares of some top construction companies were down at the close of trading: Fluor fell $1.06 or 1.8 percent, to $58.12.

New Jersey drivers bracing for an increase in the state's gas tax might have gotten a reprieve until 2016.

Southeast Asia's top budget carrier, AirAsia, says it suffered a net loss of 428.51 million ringgit ($120 million) in the quarter ending in December, hit by higher costs and a weaker currency.

About 500 passengers have been stranded without power or heat on a disabled suburban Philadelphia commuter train for more than an hour and a half.

In this photo by Bikas Das, passengers hang from the doors of the coaches of a crowded local train on the outskirts of Kolkata, India.

How would the city that is home to New Jersey's financial center react to a terror attack on its mass transit system, or a "lone wolf" attack by individual or multiple gunmen? What if those events occurred simultaneously and in conjunction with an attack that involved hazardous chemicals and shut down part of the New Jersey Turnpike? Those scenarios and others were at the heart of a two-day terrorism preparedness conference that kicked off Wednesday in Jersey City and involved about 200 agencies representing law enforcement and the public and private sector.

A dog owner has filed a lawsuit against a pet food company alleging that thousands of dogs have been sickened or died from eating a brand of the company's dry dog food.

Shares of some top airlines companies are down at 1 p.m.: Delta Air fell $.97 or 2.0 percent, to $47.06.

Shares of some top construction companies are down at 1 p.m.: Fluor fell $.44 or .7 percent, to $58.81.

After a horrific crash a decade ago that killed 11 people and injured 180 more, Southern California's commuter train network began investing heavily in passenger cars designed to protect passengers from the full force of a collision with another train or vehicle on the tracks.

Shares of some top construction companies are up at 10 a.m.: Fluor rose $.06 or .1 percent, to $59.11.

A trade group has turned in enough signatures to qualify a referendum on California's plastic bag ban law, suspending implementation of the nation's first statewide ban until voters weigh in on the November 2016 ballot, state elections officials said Tuesday.

A commuter train slammed into a truck stuck on the tracks early Tuesday, sending three rail cars tumbling onto their sides and injuring 28 people in the fiery crash in California.

The Mideast's biggest airline says it plans to resume flights to Baghdad after halting them last month after an incoming passenger plane came under fire.