Transportation

Federal authorities have charged FedEx Corp. with assisting illegal pharmacies by knowingly delivering dangerous drugs to customers without prescriptions.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Delta Air fell $.20 or .5 percent, to $37.83.

United Airlines is defending the poisoning of birds at Houston's biggest airport, saying it was for health and safety reasons.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.16 or .4 percent, to $38.19.

The New York City transit authority and unions are set to resume talks aimed at averting a weekend strike at the nation's largest commuter railroad.

As many as 44 trains a week, each loaded with at least a million gallons of volatile crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken region, move through upstate New York, according to documents released Tuesday by the state.

Anxiety is growing among the nearly 300,000 daily riders caught in the middle of a labor dispute involving the nation's largest commuter railroad.

The Department of Veterans Affairs says it has made "tremendous progress" in reducing a disability claims backlog that reached above 600,000 early last year.

A timeline of events in the federal investigation into alleged rebate fraud at the Pilot Flying J truck-stop chain owned by the family of Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and his brother, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam: — May 4, 2011: An informant contacts the FBI about a regional sales manager's statement that Pilot is cheating customers out of contractually set rebates.

Authorities say the truck-stop company owned by Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has agreed to pay $92 million in fines for cheating customers out of promised rebates and discounts.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.08 or .2 percent, to $37.31.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.26 or .7 percent, to $37.49.

Whether it's pinot noir, merlot, chardonnay or cabernet sauvignon, wine lovers in Massachusetts will soon be able to have some of their favorite bottles shipped straight from the vineyards to their homes.

New York's homeland security agency is refusing requests from freight railroads to further restrict public information about their crude oil shipments, concluding it's not sensitive security information and will be given to local emergency planners.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Delta Air fell $.17 or .5 percent, to $37.28.

Federal officials say a man faces fraud charges for booking free air travel by pretending to be an airline employee and reselling the tickets.

Now that he's had a taste of running the world's busiest air hub for international passengers, Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths is determined to hang on to the honor while setting his sights on an even bigger prize: beating Atlanta for the title of busiest airport on the planet.

Whirlpool will pay more than $1 billion for a controlling stake in Indesit, the appliance maker's counterpart in Italy.

Delays in railroad shipping have cost Minnesota corn, soybean and wheat farmers nearly $100 million and cut deeply into the value of grain still in storage at farms across the state, according to a University of Minnesota report released at an agricultural freight conference Thursday.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.51 or 1.4 percent, to $36.95.