Oil prices fall as pipeline supply concerns ease

The price of oil is falling after TransCanada reaffirmed its plans to restart a pipeline this weekend that carries crude from Canada to the Midwest. Benchmark oil dropped 47 cents Friday to $91.63 per barrel in New York. TransCanada closed the 2,100-mile...

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Mass. hospitals reach deal on trauma patients

Steward Health Care System will send its most seriously injured trauma patients to two Boston hospitals operated by Partners HealthCare System under a deal struck between the state's two largest health care providers. Steward, a for-profit chain that...

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Mass. casino application process begins

What promises to be a lengthy vetting process for would-be Massachusetts casino developers has officially begun. The state's gaming commission planned on Friday to make available on its web site Phase 1 applications for developers seeking one of the...

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Reebok outfits America's tallest man with custom-made sneakers

Igor Vovkovinsky, the tallest man in America, has found his footing. Yesterday in a private setting at the Rochester Athletic Club in Rochester, Minn., Vovkovinsky -- who measures 7 feet, 8.33 inches tall -- received his very own, custom-made sneakers...

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Bain bus protestors blast Mitt Romney's outsourcing record

Dozens of workers from companies affiliated with Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, demonstrated in Boston yesterday, blasting Romney for vowing he'll be tough on China, the very country to which...

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Bocoup to host web developer conference

Hub-based web production company Bocoup will host a two-day conference in December designed to help aspiring web developers learn everything they need to know about building modern websites and applications. Dubbed Roost, the conference will be held...

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Hill Holliday wins 'best of show' at Hatch Awards

Local ad agency Hill Holliday was awarded "Best of Show" this week at the Ad Club's 52nd annual Hatch Awards for its involvement with a special "Mad Men" double issue of Newsweek published in late March. "Our Mad Men issue celebrated the return of the...

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Brookline school wins $10G grant for robot invention

Brookline-based Beaver Country Day School has been awarded a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant of $10,000 to create an automated robotic vehicular independence system that can carry up to 50 pounds of secured weight for wheelchair-bound individuals or those...

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BRA grants $200G for historic Roxbury home conversion

Local real estate nonprofit Historic Boston Inc. will receive $200,000 to turn the historic Alvah Kittredge House in Roxbury into market and affordable homes. The Boston Redevelopment Authority board approved the funding yesterday. Kittredge, a furniture...

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BRA board backs BU Law expansion

The Boston Redevelopment Authority has approved Boston University's $172 million expansion of its law school tower on its Commonwealth Avenue campus. Construction of an addition to the BU Law building named for media exec Sumner Redstone, who donated...

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