Partners income up despite insurance activity losses

Partners HealthCare Systems's operating income climbed during the first quarter of fiscal year 2015, but it continues to see losses in insurance activity. Health care provider activity brought in $67 million in operating income, and the Neighborhood...

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Baker: Show the love during Valentine’s Week

Gov. Charlie Baker yesterday declared next week Valentine's Week, urging people to patronize small businesses that have been "especially" hard hit by record snow. "We want to urge everyone, once the storm passes, to get out and visit your Main Street...

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Cherokee Trailhawk chief in its class

With unmatched off-road capabilities and superior highway manners, the Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk blows away its competition with features and performance. With a powerful 3.2-liter V6 24-valve engine, the compact sport utility vehicle accelerates quickly...

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Company whips up ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ bear

If flowers and chocolate seem too blase this Valentine's Day, there's always the "Fifty Shades of Grey" Bear if S&M is your idea of romance, or if you just want to ride the tide that is taking theaters by storm. Yes, the Vermont Teddy Bear Co. —...

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Connector extends sign-up deadline The Massachusetts Health Connector is extending until Feb. 23 the deadline to complete an application and pick a health plan. The deadline had been tomorrow, but officials pushed it off a week because heavy snowstorms...

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Hot Property: New promotions try to lure renters

Sign an apartment lease and enter a raffle to win a $5,000 gift card. With nine new apartment complexes opening in Boston and Cambridge this year, competition for renters is heating up, and some buildings that opened within the past year or so and still...

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Boston app startup catches eye of Richard Branson

Wanderu, travel czar Richard Branson's new favorite startup, yesterday launched its free bus- and train-booking app for iPhone and iPad, with plans to debut an Android version within the next two months. The Boston startup was among three companies...

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Facebook to let someone run account after you die Facebook is making it easier to plan for your online afterlife. The world's biggest online social network said yesterday that it will now let users pick someone who can manage their account after...

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Connector still experiencing delays

The Bay State's health insurance website is improving, but remains a work in progress, with an online payment system that is causing frustration, state officials said yesterday. Consumers continue to experience long wait times due to heavy volumes at...

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New York Times media columnist David Carr dies at 58

David Carr, the iconoclastic media columnist for the New York Times, died Thursday while working at the Times' office, according a report posted late Thursday on the Times' website. He was 58. The New York Times reported that he collapsed in The Times...

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CBS '60 Minutes' correspondent Bob Simon dies in car crash

NEW YORK — Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon, who covered riots, Academy Award-nominated movies and wars and was held captive for more than a month in Iraq two decades ago, died in a car crash on Wednesday. He was 73. "CBS Evening News"...

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South Bay Center owner plans nearby mixed-use project

The owner of South Bay Center has plans for a large mixed-use project that would include a hotel, movie theater and up to 500 units of multi­family housing next to the Dorchester shopping center. The "town center" project proposed by retail real estate...

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John R. Lakian hit with fraud charges

John R. Lakian, who made unsuccessful bids for the Republican nomination for Massachusetts governor in the 1980s and for U.S. Senate nearly a decade later,­ is accused of scheming to defraud investors and banks of millions of dollars, according to federal...

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Challenges lie ahead for new director of Mass Health Connector

Leadership changes, a board shakeup, improved communication and a better Obamacare website are all top priorities as the new executive director of the Massachusetts Health Connector tries to reform the troubled agency. "If this were climbing Mount Everest,...

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Amy Pascal talks getting 'fired,' Sony hack and Angelina Jolie emails in candid interview

Six days after stepping down as co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Amy Pascal broke her silence on Wednesday at the Women in the World conference in San Francisco during a candid interview with journalist Tina Brown. "All the women here are...

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Brian Wlliams suspended from NBC News for six months

Hoping to tamp down a controversy growing around one of its best-known on-air personalities, NBC News on Tuesday suspended Brian Williams, the most-watched evening-news anchor in the U.S., from his duties as chief anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly...

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Edward Davis joins firm that pinpoints indoor gunshots

Former Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis has joined a Bay State tech company that is marketing technology to summon cops and pinpoint the location of gunshots in indoor shooter situations. "Shooter Detection Systems is an extremely innovative...

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Snow calls go through the roof

A growing number of roof collapses and more storms in the forecast have people scrambling to clear the snow off their buildings, but roofing contractors have waiting lists up to a week long, and hardware stores are selling out of do-it-yourself snow...

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City Hall asks profs, techies how to get rid of pileups

City Hall is putting out a call to local companies and colleges for ideas on how to deal with the massive amounts of snow piling up on the streets and sidewalks of the city. "The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics is seeking new and innovative ways...

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'The Daily Show': who will take over for Jon Stewart?

Let the comedy stampede begin. Jon Stewart's announcement of his departure from the anchor desk at Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" later this year is sure to set off a frenzy of jockeying among comedy talent to fill his considerable shoes. There's...

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Deadline passed, Revel sale to be killed Tuesday morning

CAMDEN, N.J. — The owners of Atlantic City's Revel Casino Hotel say they will cancel a deal Tuesday morning to sell it to a Florida developer. Revel AC originally said it planned to scrap a deal to sell the shuttered casino to Glenn Straub for $95.4...

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State vaccination exemptions up tenfold over 30 years

Religious and medical exemptions claimed by Bay State parents as a reason not to vaccinate their children against potentially deadly diseases like measles have risen nearly tenfold in the past 30 years — and the state Department of Public Health says...

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Kind-hearted reader 
pays family’s heat bill

A Lynn woman has come to the rescue of one of the 150,000 households that has exhausted its fuel assistance due to one of the coldest winters in recent memory. After reading about Sydney Fuller-Jones and her 13-year-old twins in Sunday's Herald, Linda...

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Liberty Mutual eyes Texas hub

Boston-based Liberty Mutual, which is reportedly looking at building a new hub for 4,000 employees in Texas, says it has no plans to relocate its Bay State staffers. News outlets in Texas began reporting last week that the insurance giant has its sights...

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Stock markets edge up but Greece standoff looms

BEIJING — Stocks were mostly higher on Tuesday, despite losses in Asia, as investors monitor a standoff between Greece and its creditors that threatens to shake markets. KEEPING SCORE: France's CAC-40 rose 1.3 percent to 4,708.53 and Germany's DAX rose...

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Brian Wiliams on hiatus as NBC investigates

Brian Williams' decision to temporarily step away from "NBC Nightly News" amid a swirling controversy over false comments he made about his war reporting in Iraq won't be enough to salvage his free-falling career, say media analysts, who are calling...

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Advocates say 150,000 need more fuel assistance due to harsh winter

Advocates for the poor are calling on state officials to provide immediate aid to approximately 150,000 low-income Massachusetts households — about one-third of them seniors — who have exhausted their fuel-assistance benefits due to one of the coldest...

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App tracking appetite gets NIH grant

Researchers at UMass Medical School and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have received a
$2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a smartphone app that will take a bite out of overeating caused by stress. Development of the...

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EPA to help towns adapt to flooding Two Massachusetts communities have been chosen to receive help from the Environmental Protection Agency in finding ways to become more resilient to flooding. Scituate and Newburyport were chosen to receive EPA technical...

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Ronan Farrow charts new course at MSNBC

The roving news correspondent worked his sources in Paris for days, with nary a chance to eat. His efforts paid off, with a couple of exclusive interviews with interesting people affected by the tragic Charlie Hebdo murders. Next he had to prepare to...

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