Industrials

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.

Shares of some top airlines companies were mixed at the close of trading: Delta Air rose $.16 or .3 percent, to $47.42.

Shares of some top construction companies were up at the close of trading: Fluor rose $.52 or .9 percent, to $57.29.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are up at 1 p.m.: Boeing rose $1.04 or .7 percent, to $155.15.

Shares of some top construction companies are up at 10 a.m.: Fluor rose $.44 or .8 percent, to $57.21.

Shares of some top construction companies are up at 1 p.m.: Fluor rose $.71 or 1.3 percent, to $57.48.

Shares of some top aerospace companies are up at 10 a.m.: Boeing rose $1.16 or .8 percent, to $155.27.

The director of Michigan's Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday night that he has agreed to a $4.5 million deal to sell land to a company that hopes to develop a limestone mining operation in the eastern Upper Peninsula.

The companies backing a 124-mile pipeline designed to ferry cheap Marcellus Shale natural gas to New York and New England can build across seven northeastern Pennsylvania properties whose owners had not agreed to it, a judge ruled.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $1.35 or 2.9 percent, to $47.16.

Dubai-based international port operator DP World says its profit rose 12 percent in 2014, a year in which it assumed ownership of a sister company that runs free-trade zones in the Gulf emirate.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Delta Air fell $.33 or .7 percent, to $46.32.

A look at the 10 biggest percentage gainers on Nasdaq at 1 p.m.: Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. rose 36.8 percent to $5.32.