Mayor Walsh defends firing of eight city workers

Boston?s mayor rejected the suggestion that the recent firings were politically motivated.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/shire150-3571.jpg Shire moving more than 500 jobs to Mass.

The jobs will be heading to the drug maker?s US headquarters in Lexington from a campus in Chesterbrook, Pa.

If you want to stay out of the local police blotter, don?t even think about wearing dungarees into the clubhouse at the posh Weston Golf Club.

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Fight over denim turns into uproar at Weston Golf Club

If you want to stay out of the local police blotter, don?t even think about wearing dungarees into the clubhouse.

Natixis chief John Hailer spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony for the company?s building at 888 Boylston St.

Harassment allegations against Natixis CEO come to light

In 2011, the company struck a seven-figure settlement to make accusations against CEO John Hailer go away.

New York residents dug themselves out after a Cheektowaga, N.Y., home was buried in snow.

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Parts of upstate N.Y. buried under 6 feet of snow

The storm was blamed for five western New York deaths, three of them heart attacks.

Shirley Leung

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/11/19/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/leung-3594.jpg How Mitch Weiss got to deliver Tom Menino?s eulogy

Some have wondered how a staffer little-known outside City Hall received the honor of delivering the former mayor?s eulogy.

Model and television personality Janice Dickinson at the Make Equality Reality Gala in Beverly Hills, California. Dickinson is adding her name to the women who have accused comic Bill Cosby of sexual assault.

Janice Dickinson accuses Bill Cosby of assault

The model and TV host added her name to the women who have accused comic Bill Cosby of sexual assault.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/09/22/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/ddmaria.jpg Dunkin? dark roast coffee could signal a shift for the brand

Dunkin? Donuts will emphasize its coffee ? and additional varieties of it ? more so than in the past.