DC memorial for journalist Helen Thomas being held

WASHINGTON — A memorial is being held at the National Press Club in Washington for Helen Thomas, who died in July at the age of 92. A memorial is being held Saturday for Thomas, who grilled 10 presidents as a White House reporter for United Press International...

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Mass. oyster beds reopened after contamination

BOSTON — Massachusetts health and fishery officials are reopening oyster beds that have been closed for several weeks because of naturally occurring bacterial contamination. The state announced Friday that all the oyster beds will reopen Saturday. That...

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3 formally apply for sole Mass. slots license

BOSTON — Three companies have formally applied to operate a slots parlor, the first type of expanded gambling facility expected to open in Massachusetts, state gambling regulators said Friday. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission had set a 2 p.m. deadline...

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US pushes Pacific trade agenda despite shutdown

BALI, Indonesia — Talks on a Pacific trade pact are forging ahead with hopes of meeting a year-end deadline still intact, officials said Saturday, despite President Barack Obama's absence due to the government shutdown. Obama had intended to thrash...

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Health care website gets down time for repairs

WASHINGTON — It's not the sign that the Obama administration wants people to see on its health overhaul website: down for repairs. Using overnight hours this weekend to debug the system, the Health and Human Service Department hoped to fix the technological...

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Market Basket workers to protest

Market Basket employees will converge at the Waltham site of a stalled store Sunday for a protest against the grocery chain's board. "The point of the rally is to bring attention to the board and the damage they're causing," said organizer Cindy Whelan,...

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No slots filled at Caesars’ jobs ‘forum’

As the state Gaming Commission cleared the way for three proposals to move forward yesterday, an "employment forum" Caesars Entertainment and Suffolk Downs said it held to tout job opportunities at their proposed resort casino appeared to be more of...

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The Ticker

Hacking group members indicted A federal grand jury yesterday indicted 13 members of the Internet hacking group Anonymous for allegedly carrying out cyber-attacks worldwide, including against targets that refused to process payments for WikiLeaks, the...

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Twitter dishes tantalizing tidbits in IPO treatise

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter, a privately held company built on blurbs, has finally laid itself bare in documents that read more like a treatise than a tweet. The roughly 800-page filing Twitter Inc. released late Thursday on its way to an eagerly anticipated...

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MBTA, union sue over arbitrator's pay award

BOSTON — MBTA management and the union representing some workers have filed dueling lawsuits in a dispute over an arbitrator's award that would increase T workers' salaries by an average of more than 10 percent. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority...

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APNewsBreak: Tesla says car fire began in battery

SEATTLE — A fire that destroyed a Tesla electric car near Seattle began in the vehicle's battery pack, officials said Wednesday, creating challenges for firefighters who tried to put out the flames. Company spokeswoman Liz Jarvis-Shean said the fire...

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Developer bags prime parcel

Construction will begin as early as next week on a 12-story apartment and retail building — including a possible supermarket — on Canal Street just a block from the TD Garden in a deal announced yesterday between developers and the state transportation...

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Bill filed to greenlight $1B convention center expansion

Lawmakers may soon decide whether to launch a 
$1 billion expansion of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center — a project that would add 1.3 million square feet of space, including additional exhibit and meeting areas and another, larger ballroom....

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Suspended: Drug trials, public health initiatives

Each week that the tug-of-war on Capitol Hill continues, the National Institutes of Health will turn away about 200 patients, including children with cancer, from its clinical research center, while local clinical trials remain on hold. "The longer...

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Helping out furloughed workers

Furloughed federal workers who don't know when they'll get their next paychecks are being offered everything from free food to a free pass on car payments. With about 800,000 federal employees now jobless, Pork Barrel BBQ in Alexandria, Va., just outside...

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Evite now selling paper invitations for first time

NEW YORK — Evite is going the paper route. The website, which pioneered digital invitations 15 years ago, is launching paper invites for the first time. Customers can now create invitations online, have them printed by Evite and sent directly to party...

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US futures down sharply as budget impasse drags on

NEW YORK — Stock futures fell significantly Wednesday with both sides in the budget battle appearing to grow more entrenched and prepared to slug it out. Because of the partial government shutdown the ADP private payroll report, usually a precursor...

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Markets jittery on US government shutdown

LONDON — Italy's main stock market was the standout performer Wednesday as the country's government won a confidence vote. Elsewhere, the mood was far more downbeat as investors fretted over the partial shutdown of the U.S. government. The political...

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Monsanto 4th-qtr loss widens as seed sales decline

WASHINGTON — Monsanto reported worse-than-expected losses for its fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday, due to lower sales of its genetically engineered seeds. The company forecast for fiscal 2014 also came in below Wall Street expectations, and it revealed...

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KPN shareholders to vote on E-Plus sale

AMSTERDAM — Shareholders of Dutch telecom Royal KPN NV are set to vote Wednesday on the sale of the company's German mobile subsidiary E-Plus for $11.4 billion to Telefonica SA at a meeting that may be overshadowed by wider questions about KPN's fate....

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UN: Syria refugee crisis threatens development

BERLIN — The head of the United Nations development agency is warning that Syria's refugee crisis is threatening economic development throughout the region because host countries cannot cope with the influx. Helen Clark told a meeting Monday in Geneva,...

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Rosneft sets price for remaining TNK-BP shares

MOSCOW — Russian state-controlled oil company Rosneft has set a price for buying out minority shareholders in TNK-BP that is far less than the majority shareholders received. In taking over TNK-BP last year, Rosneft bought out the major shareholders...

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Obamacare dispute sends gov't to brink of shutdown

WASHINGTON — Hours before a threatened government shutdown, the Senate has the next move Monday on must-do budget legislation that has fueled a bitter congressional dispute over President Barack Obama's signature health care law. But the Senate won't...

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UK journalist charged in computer hacking probe

LONDON — British police are charging a journalist as part of an investigation into allegations of computer hacking and privacy offenses, marking the first charges under Operation Tuleta, one of three police probes triggered by the U.K.'s phone-hacking...

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Futures fall sharply as US careens toward shutdown

NEW YORK — U.S. stock futures slumped Monday as the federal government careened toward a partial shutdown. The Senate will reconvene just 10 hours before a shutdown would be initiated and there is little evidence of a thaw between the Senate and conservative...

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Mazda recalls midsize cars to fix door latches

DETROIT — Mazda is recalling 161,400 midsize cars in the U.S. because the doors can open while they're being driven. The recall affects Mazda 6 cars from the 2009 through 2013 model years. The company says the door latch mounting screws can loosen....

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Trout habitat being restored in Maine stream

FRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP, Maine — Maine's wildlife agency is restoring brook trout habitat in a stream in the Moosehead Lake area. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Plum Creek land and timber company have been working together to enhance...

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White House: GOP bill 'reckless,' 'irresponsible'

WASHINGTON — The White House says a House Republican bill that would delay a major provision of President Barack Obama's health care law is reckless and irresponsible. Obama spokesman Jay Carney also says any Republican who votes for the bill is "voting...

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Friendly’s fights slide

Two years after filing for bankruptcy, Friendly's Ice Cream continues to churn away at a tall order: reinvigorating a 78-year-old chain competing against the likes of Applebee's, Panera, IHOP and Chipotle. While analysts cite progress important to a...

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App’s the way to monitor baby

A Boston-based MassChallenge finalist is taking baby-monitoring beyond devices that record only sight or sound. The SensibleBaby SmartOne is a onesie with a front pocket containing an embedded sensor that sends a constant signal to a nearby smartphone...

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