The FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating what a bankruptcy trustee calls a fraud, one with “many of the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme.”
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If the state is going to invite the bright lights of Hollywood, it should make sure nobody gets blindsided.
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It’s latest in a growing list of spaces around the city that will bear the mayor’s name long after he leaves City Hall early next month.
Kevin Cullen
The cinder block walls at Murphy rink in South Boston ooze hockey, and that is why Teddy Cunniff can’t leave the place.
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It is unclear how many Massachusetts customers are affected by the breach, but 36 of Target’s 1,800 stores are in the state.
Governor Patrick does not recall ever meeting the cousin and had no involvement in the application for clemency, his spokeswoman said.
The Rev. Frank Schaefer, pastor of a church in Lebanon, Pa., was forced to surrender his credentials.
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Globe Santa has been making Christmases merrier for local families since 1956, and for more than half its history, Eddie Doyle has been part of the effort.
opinion | JOSHUA GREEN
Conservative activist groups will strike backAdvocacy groups such as Heritage Action have a long-term plan to shift the Republican Party to the right.
The four goals allowed by the Bruins negated an excellent effort from Brad Marchand, who scored both of Boston’s goals.
The man accused of torturing a dog in Quincy may also have stolen more than $200,000 from the woman for whom he was a caretaker.
A military judge ordered a mental competency evaluation for a Guantanamo prisoner who has repeatedly disrupted pretrial proceedings in recent days.
More than a hundred protesters, from left and right, greeted newly minted New Hampshire resident Scott Brown.
Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are selling Class A stock as the social media company prepares to join the Standard & Poor’s 500 index.
Russell is on a roll with “The Fighter,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” and now comes “American Hustle,” which he directed and co-wrote, with Eric Singer.
Director David O. Russell’s film is a playful mix of scam and ’70s schlock that sends you out of the theater on a cloud of rapture.
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