Arch Coal Inc., the nation’s No. 2 coal producer, said its third-quarter profit fell 46 percent because of weaker coal prices.

Net income fell to $27.2 million, or 19 cents a share, from $50.8 million, or 35 cents, in the same…

The Air Force’s No. 2 procurement official, who was facing Congressional scrutiny for holding a no-work job with a defense industry nonprofit, committed suicide Sunday at his home in Virginia, Reuters is reporting.

The news agency says that Charles Reichers,…

The Renewable Fuels Association, a trade group for ethanol industry, elected Chris Standlee, executive vice president of Chesterfield-based Abengoa Bioenergy, as its new chairman.

Standlee, who had been the group’s vice chairman, succeeds Ron Miller, chief executive of Pekin, Ill.-based Aventine…

Boomberg News reports this morning that Boeing Co. has won a $49.2 million contract to upgrade communications aboard Saudi Arabia’s fleet of five E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft.

The contract, awarded under a U.S. Air Force foreign military…

Well, Dan Rather’s HDnet report on safety questions around Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner aired Tuesday night, and the aerospace giant is still standing. In fact, its stock climbed $1.55 to $100.02 a share Wednesday, and relatively few news outlets picked…

Boeing’s St. Louis-based defense unit has won a 10-year, $1.1 billion contract to perform maintenance on the Air Force’s fleet of KC-135 Stratotankers, the company said Tuesday.

The work, a continuation of an existing contract that Boeing had previously shared…

The Air Force doesn’t plan to split its  $40 billion  contract to build the next generation of aerial refueling tankers between competing bidders Boeing and Northrop Grumman/EADS, according to a story on the Financial Times’ website this morning.

The news is…

The Australian government Friday gave initial approval to spend $4 billion on developing a new naval plane with Boeing and the U. S. Navy, Australian officials said in a press release. The patrol and response aircraft would replace Australia’s fleet…

While the future of the C-17 Globemaster sits in budgetary limbo and a morass of competing priorities in the halls of Congress and the Pentagon, Sen. Claire McCaskill has a proposal: A neutral study, to determine how many of the…

Westfield West County mall is getting three stores that are new to the St. Louis area including Soma by Chico’s, an intimate apparel and loungewear store owned by the successful women’s wear retailer.

Soma, which is opening next month on…