Taunton pastor, author starts own publishing house

TAUNTON — Hoping to uplift readers and give an opportunity to other religious writers, a local pastor has started a Spanish-language Christian publishing house. Edna Isaac, pastor of the Casa de Adoracion based at the Pilgrim Congregational Church...

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Amazon sales-tax deal winds on

Gov. Deval Patrick, who signed a sales-tax increase back during the Great Recession, is giving peeved Massachusetts retailers another lump of coal in their stockings for the holidays. The Patrick administration has yet to reach a deal with Amazon.com...

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Official: China can meet 7.5 percent growth target

BEIJING — China's sharp economic downturn has ended after trade and consumer spending improved in October but the world's second-largest economy is not ready for a recovery and exporters face tough conditions, officials said Saturday. The economy...

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Sotheby's to sell Mick Jagger's love letters

LONDON — Handwritten letters from Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to his former lover Marsha Hunt will be auctioned in London next month. Hunt is an American-born singer who was the inspiration for the Stones' 1971 hit "Brown Sugar" and bore Jagger's...

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EU annual budget talks collapse, in worrying sign

PARIS — Negotiations over next year's European Union budget have collapsed after a dispute between member states and the European Commission over a shortfall in the 2012 budget. The talks, which essentially ended before they began, could be a sign...

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'Fiscal cliff' threatens Bay State industries

If Congress doesn't avoid the year-end "fiscal cliff," billions of dollars worth of medical research and defense contracts would be slashed, and perhaps nowhere would that be more keenly felt than in Massachusetts. Massachusetts General Hospital has...

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Boston Scientific, among others, making moves

Major employers in MetroWest played another round of musical chairs yesterday as Boston Scientific made plans to move its headquarters to Marlboro and leave its Natick campus behind for software maker MathWorks. Starting next spring, the medical device...

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Massachusetts high-end housing market holds steady

The number of homes selling for $1 million and over in Massachusetts was 1,915 during the past year, almost unchanged from the 1,913 homes that sold for $1 million and over the year before. Here's a look at five properties that sold recently in the Bay...

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Brandon Lloyd's leap

By now, word has gotten out about Brandon Lloyd's daring jump over a car that was traveling 35 miles per hour as part of a challenge by Mobile Technology's company MobiSquad. For those who were more than a little concerned the Patriots [team stats]...

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Students, mentors invest in StoxSmart

The Herald's StoxSmart program is back as a new class of budding student entrepreneurs learn the money management and financial skills necessary to tackle the unpredictable stock market. Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish returns for a second year,...

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Business - BostonHerald.comBusiness - BostonHerald.com http://www.bostonherald.com/business/?srvc=rss The Boston Herald online: The closest distance between you and the news en-us Copyright 2012, Herald Interactive, Inc. Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:22:19 -0500...

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Business - BostonHerald.com

Business - BostonHerald.comBusiness - BostonHerald.com http://www.bostonherald.com/business/?srvc=rss The Boston Herald online: The closest distance between you and the news en-us Copyright 2012, Herald Interactive, Inc. Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:13:23 -0500...

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Business - BostonHerald.com

Business - BostonHerald.comBusiness - BostonHerald.com http://www.bostonherald.com/business/?srvc=rss The Boston Herald online: The closest distance between you and the news en-us Copyright 2012, Herald Interactive, Inc. Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:20:06 -0500...

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Pay-what-you-can Panera

The charitable arm of Panera Bread Co. plans to bring one of its nonprofit, pay-what-you-want cafes to Boston. Panera Bread Foundation's donation-based Panera Cares Community Cafe is slated to open at 3 Center Plaza next year. The cafes' mission is...

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