Stocks mixed on Wall Street; GM slumps

NEW YORK — The stock market continued its lackluster start to the New Year Friday. Stocks opened higher, then fell back to trade flat around midday. The market's slump on Thursday was the first for an opening day of the year since 2008. KEEPING SCORE:...

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Writer, Doyle estate dispute copyright on Sherlock

CHICAGO — It's the kind of puzzle that might have amused Sherlock Holmes himself. Now that copyright protections have expired on nearly all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales about the pipe-puffing detective in the deerstalker hat, are writers free to...

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Mass. rehab hospitals get Ala. owner

A Birmingham, Ala., health care real estate development company has acquired New England and Braintree rehabilitation hospitals for $90 million. The Sanders Trust, in a joint venture with its capital partner, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, LLC,...

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Kathi-Anne Reinstein raising stein as beer lobbyist

State Rep. Kathi-Anne Reinstein's shift from State House power broker to Sam Adams beer lobbyist could pay dividends for the industry as a whole, observers say, even as the Revere lawmaker readies to leave behind key posts on Beacon Hill. Reinstein's...

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Snapchat says to make app more secure

NEW YORK — Snapchat says it plans to put out a more secure version of its application following a breach that allowed hackers to collect the usernames and phone numbers of some 4.6 million of its users. The disappearing-message service popular with...

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Mass. family-owned pharmacy chain closes

BROCKTON, Mass. — A once flourishing independent chain of nine pharmacies south of Boston has closed its last three stores. Arthur and Sandra Sedell closed their stores in Lakeville, Assonet and Carver last month and sold the stock to CVS. The 71-year-old...

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US stocks edge higher in early trading

NEW YORK — Stocks are higher in early trading in Wall Street a day after starting the New Year off with a thud. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 52 points, or 0.3 percent, to 16,494 points in the first few minutes of trading Friday. It fell...

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German car sales down but exports up in 2013

BERLIN — An industry group says car sales in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, picked up at the end of 2013 — though that wasn't enough to prevent a 4 percent decline over the full year. The VDA group said Friday that 215,300 new cars were registered...

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Dec. auto sales falter; 2013 still best in 6 years

DETROIT — December U.S. auto sales slowed a bit from the brisk pace earlier this year, but automakers still were on target to finish 2013 with the best numbers in six years. Nissan posted an 11 percent gain for December and Chrysler managed a 6 percent...

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Gov't: Birth control mandate should not be blocked

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday called on a Supreme Court justice to stop blocking the new health care law's requirement that some religion-affiliated organizations provide health insurance that includes birth control. The Justice Department...

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