HUNTSVILLE, AL-After a three-month suspension, Toyota's Huntsville plant has resumed producing V-8 engines bound for assembly plants in Indiana and Texas. MORE
KRAGUJEVAC, Serbia-Serbia’s deputy minister of economics Nebojsa Ciric says his country wants to help General Motors build a new plant to produce the Opel Astra Classic automobile. MORE
PRINCE GEORGE, VA-Rolls-Royce PLC says the slowing economy will not stop its plan to build a new aircraft engine assembly and testing plant in Virginia. MORE
AUBURN HILLS, MI-Chrysler plans to drop production of the hybrid version of its Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen sport utility vehicles, leaving the company without a single hybrid in its lineup until at least 2010. MORE
WASHINGTON-New orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rose unexpectedly in September by 0.8 percent, led by surging demand for defense goods and transportation equipment. MORE
DETROIT-General Motors Corp. is reportedly asking the U.S. government for $10 billion to support its acquisition of Chrysler LLC from Cerberus Capital Management. MORE
DEARBORN, MI-Ford Motor Co. plans to invest $109 million into its engine factory in Bridgend, south Wales, to fund production of a new generation of environmentally friendly engines. MORE
BEDFORD, MI-Solar manufacturing equipment maker Spire Corp. has landed a contract to provide the Korean solar company Hanwha Chemical Corp. with a 30 megawatt per year manufacturing line. MORE
CHICAGO-Boeing and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers have reached a tentative four-year labor agreement covering some 27,000 employees in Washington, Oregon and Kansas. MORE