The company planned to move locomotive production to other operations in North and South America after contract talks with unionized workers soured.

The major developed countries are all experiencing slowdowns in growth, a trend the International Monetary Fund’s new projections indicate will continue.

Steve Appleton, whose death was considered a major loss for the struggling company, was piloting the small craft in Boise, Idaho.

Numbers may alter rhetoric in presidential campaigns

A tax break added billions to the federal government’s current deficit, but the government says it should recoup 80 percent of the shortfall in the future.