Industrials

Nearly half of the jobs at a sorting center in northwest Ohio will be eliminated as the Postal Service moves its local mail-sorting operation to Michigan.

Spanish authorities early Friday lifted all restrictions for all 60,000 people urged to stay indoors after a chemical explosion a day earlier at a warehouse sent a large, toxic orange cloud floating above six towns.

Shares of some top airlines companies are down at 10 a.m.: Delta Air fell $1.02 or 2.3 percent, to $43.96.

A Canadian oil pipeline company is temporarily suspending efforts to seize Nebraska for the Keystone Pipeline XL amid a legal challenge.

Federal investigators expect to issue a preliminary report this month on the fiery collision between a commuter train and an SUV in the New York City suburbs that killed six.

Another day of freezing temperatures means another day of commuting woes for Boston-area residents who take mass transit to work.

A look at the 10 biggest percentage decliners on New York Stock Exchange at 1 p.m.: Pier 1 Imports Inc. fell 22.9 percent to $13.09.

SpaceX is counting on better weather as it tries a third time to launch an observatory and land the leftover rocket at sea.

Shares of some top construction companies are down at 10 a.m.: Fluor fell $.54 or 1.0 percent, to $55.11.

Amid an increasingly damaging labor dispute, 29 West Coast seaports which handle billions of dollars of goods will be mostly closed four of the next five days.

Shares of some top aerospace companies were mixed at the close of trading: Boeing rose $.79 or .5 percent, to $147.92.

A federal judge has allowed several trucking companies to press claims they were cheated by a truck-stop company owned by Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and his family.

The Missouri House endorsed a measure to bar unions from collecting fees from non-members in the construction industry Wednesday after a black Democrat said the building trades unions have failed minority workers and businesses.

Even as Boeing opened a new propulsion plant in South Carolina, the aeronautics giant announced it is already assigning additional work to the plant.

The share price for Spain's national aviation authority, AENA, has soared by 18 percent on the first day of trading after the state company was partially privatized.

There were no super-long tarmac delays for airlines in December, making 2014 the best year on record for fewest such incidents.

Union officials representing engineers operating the Philadelphia-area transit system told federal regulators Tuesday that they are concerned about safety if a waiver from a rule designed to limit fatigue by rail employees is renewed.

A South Korean shipping company that is the Port of Portland's largest container carrier will be terminating its service with the city, but it will continue to use rail and truck transportation, port officials said.

Vermont Gas Systems announced Tuesday that it is not going through with the second phase of a natural gas pipeline that would have extended underneath Lake Champlain to the International Paper plant in Ticonderoga, New York, because cost increases made the project no longer viable for the paper company.

A New York medical examiner has found that all six of the people killed in a horrific collision between a commuter train and an SUV suffered blunt-force injuries and burns.