Sierra Nevada Corp. has landed a $355 million deal to support a Light Air Support aircraft program for the U.S. Air Force. The Sparks, Nev.-based company was awarded the contract Friday from Aeronautical Systems Center, which is headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. According to the Defense Department, the LAS aircraft will be used for conducting advanced flight training, surveillance, air interdiction, and close air support. It is a single-engine turboprop fixed-wing aircraft, capable of operating from semi-prepared air fields…

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Denver Broncos fans enjoyed quarterback Tim Tebow's ability to engineer a turnaround late in several games this season. But here's a different set of "comeback kids," compiled from the roster of publicly traded Colorado-based companies and based on how their share price rose or fell over the year. Most such year-end lists compare share price on the year's last trading day with the same point a year earlier. This list works a bit differently. We're looking at how far stocks rose in 2011 from their low point for the year, percentagewise, according to Yahoo Finance 52-week range data…

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Manufacturing activity declined in December in a multistate region that includes Colorado, but future expectations remain strong, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's latest survey. The survey covers the 10th Federal Reserve District, which includes Colorado as well as western Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming and northern New Mexico. The survey's composite index was at minus 4 in December, the first negative reading since December 2009. It was at 4 a month ago and 14 a year ago…

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Welcome to the Denver Business Journal's Tech Watch, our roundup of the weekend's tech news from around the nation, featuring reports on Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon.com, Hewlett-Packard, Twitter, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, Research in Motion and more. Verizon Wireless cancels plan for $2 fee Most small businesses plan to buy tablets, mainly iPads Investment banks vie for Facebook IPO Samsung is top handset manufacturer in new study Facebook Timeline coming to iPad in January Apple, Google gain as BlackBerry loses market share Could Amazon, Twitter, Google go dark to protest anti-piracy law? Mark Hurd sex harassment letter published Silicon Valley's 2011 IPOs a mixed bag Best-read Silicon Valley business stories of 2011 Kindle Fire ad impressions jumped 261 percent on Christmas

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Denver Broncos fans enjoyed quarterback Tim Tebow's ability to engineer a turnaround late in several games this season. But here's a different set of "comeback kids," compiled from the roster of publicly traded Colorado-based companies and based on how their share price rose or fell over the year. Most such year-end lists compare share price on the year's last trading day with the same point a year earlier. This list works a bit differently. We're looking at how far stocks rose in 2011 from their low point for the year, percentagewise, according to Yahoo Finance 52-week range data…

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An Eden Prairie man who pleaded guilty to an $11.5 million insurance scam in May and who later allegedly faked his death has been arrested in Canada. The Star Tribune reports that Travis Magdalena Scott, 34, was arrested in Winnipeg just before Christmas after being accused by a pharmacy employee of trying to use a forged prescription. Canadian authorities searched Scott's downtown Winnipeg apartment and found $80,000 in gold coins, $30,000 in currency and Taser stun device, the newspaper reported…

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Eleven stocks tracked by the San Antonio Business Journal declined in value on Friday. Four local stocks were up at the end of trading. Valero Energy Corp.’s stock was the local leader on Friday. The stock rose 1.45 percent to close at $21.05. Valero owns and operates oil refineries, convenience stores, ethanol plants and a wind farm. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 70 points on Friday, or 0.57 percent, to close out the day at 12,218. Friday’s closing tally: • Abraxas Petroleum Corp…

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The sale of Denver television station KMGH-Channel 7 to E.W. Scripps Co., the former owner of the folded Rocky Mountain News, closed Friday. Cincinnati-based Scripps (NYSE: SSP) announced in October that it would acquire KMGH, an ABC affiliate, as part of a $212 million purchase of the broadcasting division of McGraw-Hill Cos. Inc. (NYSE: MHP). In addition to KMGH, the deal includes ABC-affiliated stations in Indianapolis, San Diego and Bakersfield, Calif., plus low-power Azteca America affiliated stations in Denver (KZCO-TV), Fort Collins (KZFC-TV) and Colorado Springs (KZCS-TV) as well as in San Diego and Bakersfield…

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As 2011 draws to a close, the Denver Business Journal offers another look at our 10 most-clicked-on photo galleries of the year: DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No. 10, corporate jets DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No. 9, Great American Beer Festival DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No. 8, healthiest employers DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No. 7, Occupy Denver DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No. 6, Outstanding Women in Business DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No…

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As 2011 draws to a close, the Denver Business Journal offers another look at our 10 most-clicked-on photo galleries of the year: DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No. 10, corporate jets DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No. 9, Great American Beer Festival DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No. 8, healthiest employers DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No. 7, Occupy Denver DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No. 6, Outstanding Women in Business DBJ's Top Photo Galleries of 2011: No…

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