WASHINGTON — Small defense companies, energy firms, and other technology start-ups throughout New England could lose tens of millions of dollars a year because of a decision by House Democrats yesterday to abruptly halt budget earmarks for companies.
In just two years, spending on MRIs, mammograms, and other imaging tests climbed by at least $214 million in Massachusetts, helping to fuel a dramatic rise in the cost of outpatient hospital care.
In a case that drew attention from the Gun Owners Action League and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, the Supreme Judicial Court yesterday upheld a state law requiring trigger locks on guns kept in people's homes. In what was seen by some as a victory for law enforcement and advocates of gun control, the state's highest court ruled that the Second Amendment does not restrict the right of Massachusetts to impose its own rules on gun ownership.
Attorney General Martha Coakley's office joined a federal lawsuit yesterday that contends that Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to get its drugs, especially the powerful antipsychotic Risperdal, prescribed in nursing homes.
After sinking $125 million into the controversial project over 13 unlucky years, the developers of Columbus Center will never break ground. California Urban Investment Partners, co-developer of the $800 million mixed-use development along with Boston's Winn Cos., have told the state's transportation agency that they are bowing out of the plan to build a massive mixed-use development over the Massachusetts Turnpike in the Back Bay.
Adding a new chapter to its storied history of vanquished British seamen and Barbary pirates, Old Ironsides has emerged victorious once again - this time vs. snooty neighbors seeking to silence the frigate's cannons.
A bill that would ban the sale of sugary drinks and junk food in school vending machines and school stores is gaining momentum in the Legislature, as Massachusetts combats a troubling rise in childhood obesity rates.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge has taken the unusual step of overruling a jury that awarded a black teacher from Boston Latin School more than $300,000 after he complained that the school's administrators had discriminated against him.
Governor Deval Patrick yesterday took some of his most pointed shots yet at Republican gubernatorial rival Charles D. Baker Jr., accusing the former chief executive of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of doing nothing to stop dramatic increases in health care costs that he said are crushing small businesses and families.
Gov. Deval Patrick says he's "open" to doing battle in the lion's den of conservative talk radio as he struggles for traction in his re-election bid - and the Hub's hottest hosts say they're ready to rumble. Patrick has long refused to enter the studios of right-wing talkers who mercilessly mock him to the delight of their listeners.
A new federal law that requires states to send ballots to military and overseas voters 45 days before the general election is causing headaches for states with September primaries -- states like Delaware.
TODAY’S TAKE: California has fewer people in its workforce today than it did in 1999. For Alabama and Indiana, 1993 is the last time the employment ranks were so thin. And for Michigan — unquestionably the nation’s hardest-hit state in terms of unemployment — 4.1 million people have jobs today. That’s the smallest total since August of 1987, when Ronald Reagan was president.
