Industrials

Eighteen years, three governors and $567 million after a study was commissioned to come up with a way to improve public transportation in central Connecticut, a bus-only corridor is about to open, promising to overtake motorists sitting on traffic-clogged Interstate 84.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are up at 1 p.m.: Boeing rose $.22 or .1 percent, to $148.39.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.81 or 1.8 percent, to $44.90.

North Carolina's workplace safety agency is leading an investigation into why a scaffold with several men on it broke free from the facade of a high-rise construction project and killed three workers.

With 500 days to go until the 2016 Olympics begin, Rio de Janeiro's mayor acknowledged Monday that the much-touted goal of cleaning up the city's blighted waterways for the games would likely not be met.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Boeing fell $1.29 or .8 percent, to $153.21.

Shares of some top construction companies are up at 1 p.m.: Fluor rose $.76 or 1.3 percent, to $58.05.

Shares of some top airlines companies are down at 1 p.m.: Delta Air fell $.77 or 1.6 percent, to $46.65.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Boeing fell $1.04 or .7 percent, to $153.46.

Shares of some top construction companies are up at 10 a.m.: Fluor rose $.31 or .5 percent, to $57.60.

Shares of some top airlines companies are down at 10 a.m.: Delta Air fell $.65 or 1.4 percent, to $46.77.

Central Maine Power has set the final transmission pole needed to complete a $1.4 billion power grid upgrade.

Companies are trying to increase the number of women in executive positions amid evidence that it brings higher profits, surveys show.

Shares of some top construction companies were up at the close of trading: Fluor rose $.59 or 1.0 percent, to $57.88.

The nation's mayors are calling on Congress to increase transportation funding in order to keep roads and bridges in good repair.

Less than five years ago, Rick Tonge was riding a chairlift at Sugarloaf ski resort in Maine when five chairs — including his — plummeted 30 feet to the snowy ground below, injuring him and his son.

One of the world's most popular weed-killers — and the most widely used kind in the U.S. — has been labeled a probable carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

The roar of mammoth Air Force bombers and tanker planes has long been silenced at the Grand Forks Air Force Base, but backers of the nation's first unmanned aircraft business park say the drones are creating a buzz.

New labeling on the world's most popular weed killer as a likely cause of cancer is raising more questions for an aerial spraying program in Colombia that underpins U.S.-financed efforts to wipe out cocaine crops.

Sen. Angus King is praising a conservation organization's new solar panel system that he says will help reduce energy costs and the state's reliance on oil.