Hot Property: Take a swing at Big Papi’s condo

"Big Papi" wants to sell you his penthouse complete with his own furnishings. Red Sox legend David Ortiz is selling his three-­bedroom condo atop a six-story midrise called the Water­mark. Built in 2007, the 81-unit building is part of the Waterworks...

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Charlie Baker: Medicaid costs soaring

Gov. Charlie Baker sounded the alarm to business leaders over the soaring cost of the state's Medicaid program — plagued by "double-covered" patients and still hobbling from the disastrous rollout of Obamacare in 2013 — in his first address to the Greater...

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Brian Williams and the lost art of the public apology

Brian Williams is sorry. The NBC anchor said so on his nightly newscast, on Facebook and in the pages of Stars and Stripes, the magazine that first unearthed his repeated lies about flying in a helicopter struck by an RPG over a decade ago in Iraq. ...

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US gains 257K jobs, unemployment rate ticks up to 5.7 pct.

WASHINGTON — U.S. employers hired at a stellar pace last month, wages rose by the most in six years, and Americans responded by streaming into the job market to find work. The Labor Department said Friday that the economy gained a seasonally adjusted...

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Brian Williams' self-inflicted wound helps arm NBC's critics

Brian Williams is inevitably going to be criticized by lots of couch-bound observers who have never reported from a war zone (including yours truly), but given the forces eager to pounce on any slip by the news organization he represents, he has committed...

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AG jabs Narcan kit maker over steep price hikes

The Attorney General's Office yesterday contacted the maker of the drug used to reverse the effects of heroin and opioid painkiller overdoses, asking why its price has risen dramatically in the midst of a spike in overdose deaths. In a letter to Amphastar...

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The Ticker

1,750 RadioShack stores to also be Sprint locations RadioShack Corp., the 94-year-old consumer-electronics chain, filed for bankruptcy with a plan to turn about half of its 4,000 stores into Sprint Corp. locations and close the rest. The company said...

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Data of 80M Anthem customers stolen

The computer breach at the country's second-largest insurer is the latest attack on a health care company as hackers aim their sights at valuable information found in medical records, one expert said. "Everyone in health care knows it's a problem; everyone...

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Staples merger to cut stores

Hundreds to as many as a thousand Staples and Office Depot store closings are expected if federal regulators sign off on the planned $6.3 billion merger of the nation's two largest office supplies chains. With about half of their combined 3,200-plus...

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UMass names presidential search committee

DARTMOUTH — University of Massachusetts trustees have named a 21-member search committee to find a new president for the five-campus system. The committee established Friday at the trustees' meeting at UMass Law School in Dartmouth includes trustees,...

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