Verizon to publish data on phone records requests

WASHINGTON — Verizon Communications Inc. says it will publish information on the number of requests for customer records it received from law enforcement agencies this year. The announcement Thursday from the country's largest cellphone carrier comes...

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Stocks pause on Wall Street a day after a surge

NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes ended up pretty much where they started on Thursday, a day after a powerful surge. Stocks gained the most in more than two months Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it would reduce its bond-buying program to $75 billion...

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Target security breach affects up to 40M cards

Target's data-security nightmare threatens to drive off holiday shoppers during the company's busiest time of year. The nation's second-largest discounter acknowledged Thursday that data connected to about 40 million credit and debit card accounts was...

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Anti-Koch activists post T bus-stop ads

Environmental activists are launching a new wave of protests against conservative billionaire and WGBH board bigwig David Koch, sponsoring ads at MBTA bus stops with his image and the station's logo calling for his ouster. "We've discovered that as...

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Lost piece of Chinatown to rise again

In the 1950s, Paul Lee's family was forced to leave a stretch of Hudson Street that was demolished to build the Southeast Expressway. Lee, now board chairman of the Asian Community Development Corp., recalled that the block "was full of Chinese families...

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AG targets chain after data breach

Hackers targeting Target Corp. hit the bull's eye, but the nation's second largest discounter said it has resolved a security breach that gave cyber-criminals access to the credit and debit card information of some 40 million customers during the busiest...

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Robert DeLeo: We’re not changing Mass. gaming law for Wynn

House Speaker Robert DeLeo yesterday said he doesn't think Massachusetts' gaming law should be modified to suit casino operators, as Las Vegas billionaire Steve Wynn suggested this week. "When we had written the casino law ... we wanted to make sure...

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Bay State’s jobless rate now higher than U.S.

The gap between state and national unemployment rates, once just under 2 percent, has been erased after the Bay State posted higher jobless numbers than the nation yesterday for the first time in six years. The state unemployment rate for November dipped...

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Unemployment rates fall in nearly all US states

WASHINGTON — Unemployment rates fell or were unchanged in all 50 U.S. states in November, evidence that hiring is improving across the country. The Labor Department said Friday that employers added jobs in 43 states and cut jobs in just seven. California,...

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Drugstore chain Walgreen's 1Q profit jumps 68 pct

Walgreen's fiscal first-quarter earnings soared 68 percent as investments in other companies paid off for the nation's largest drugstore chain, but a slowdown in generic drug introductions helped squeeze profitability. The Deerfield Ill., company said...

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