Facing rising costs for everything from coal and natural gas to electric transformers and copper wire, AmerenUE will ask Missouri regulators this spring for permission to increase electric rates.

Ameren Corp.  executives, speaking to financial analysts in New York on Thursday, didn’t…

Kellwood Co., which has been restructuring to add better brands to its portfolio, said Monday that its Gerber Childrenswear Inc. division has reached a licensing agreement with Jockey International Inc. to make Jockey-branded underwear and sleepwear for infants, toddlers and…

Cracked support beams have been found in two more F-15s, the Air Force said this morning.

The planes, based in Okinawa, were among 30 inspected there in the wake of a second grounding of older F-15s announced last week. The cracks…

Might the U.S. get a second major commercial aircraft manufacturer?

It might, says Airbus, if the Pentagon gives the European-based plane-maker the $40 billion aerial refueling tanker contract it’s currently weighing. That’s the gist of this story in today’s London Guardian.

EADS sources…

Two-plus  weeks after  restricting flights of  its entire F-15 fleet, the Air Force Wednesday cleared the fighter jets to return to the sky.

In a statement to F-15 pilots and personnel, Gen. John Corley, commander of the Air Combat Command, said…

Joshua Hernandez, 3, of Maplewood sleeps as his parents Clementina and Ramon shop Friday morning at the Sams Club in Maplewood. Anthony Souffle | Post-Dispatch

It was bone-chilling cold this morning, but shoppers lined up outside area big-box stores and malls…

Sabreliner Corp., a Clayton-based aerospace supplier, has won a four-year deal with Sikorsky Support Services Inc. to supply inspection services on the U. S. Navy’s fleet of T-34s.

The T-34 is the Navy’s primary pilot-training aircraft and has been in service…

Japan has joined the U.S. Air Force in grounding its F-15 fleet in the wake of a Missouri Air National Guard fighter crash Friday, according to this report from Bloomberg.

All 200 of the fighter-bombers in the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force will…

Furniture Brands International Inc. —  the Clayton-based parent company of Lane, Broyhill and Thomasville furniture — must  change an ingrained culture of friction between headquarters and operating divisions to regain its competitive edge, according to a longtime industry analyst.

Some of…

Anheuser-Busch Cos. is donating $500,000 and more than a half-million cans of drinking water to aid relief efforts in California, where nearly 1 million residents have been forced to flee spreading wildfires.

The St. Louis-based brewer’s philanthropic arm — the Anheuser-Busch…