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Boeing and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace Local 2001 reached tentative agreement Friday on new four-year contracts covering 21,000 engineers and technical workers.

A business plan to turn beer-brewery waste into feed stock for fish farms won a $10,000 contest judged by venture capitalists at the Colorado biotech industry’s annual conference.

Louisville-based Almost Family Inc., a provider of home health nursing services, said Friday that it reached an agreement to acquire the assets of the Medicare-certified home health agency owned by Fairfield Medical Center, located near Columbus, Ohio. (AFAM)

Midwest Research Institute has laid off 16 employees, about 2.5 percent of the portion of its work force not involved with MRI’s contract to operate the National Renewable energy Laboratory.

A coalition of labor unions is accusing Nashville-based CVS Caremark Corp. of misusing private patient information.

Google Inc.'s lead widened in the U.S. search market over Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in October, a report shows. (GOOG) (YHOO) (MSFT)

The price of driving along the E-470 toll road in suburban Denver is climbing.

Crude markets ignored word of another emergency meeting later this month by OPEC to address falling crude prices, focusing instead Friday on the largest ever October plunge for retail sales and a sharp drop in business inventories.

The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States dropped by 51 this week to 1,941.

A spokesman for Russia's Gazprom said that contrary to press reports, the state-controlled energy giant has no interest in acquiring a 20% stake in Spanish oil company Repsol.