A sharp decline in gold prices ? from $1,900 an ounce in 2011 to $1,200 now ? has left some companies struggling.
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A state report says hiking the price of petroleum products would force many to reduce the use of gas, oil, and fossil fuels.
Some face reprimand for a 60-person ?die-in? because the demonstration was not properly permitted, officials said.
The company?s CEO insisted in a television interview that ??we have not given in and we have not backed down.??
Jets 2, Bruins 1
Torey Krug scored the only goal for the Bruins, who lost two of three games on their road trip.
N.Y. woman accused of killing 5-year-old cousinTiffany VanAlstyne is accused of killing the boy and then calling in a false report that two masked intruders had abducted him.
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The 84-year-old plant is the latest in Maine to fall victim to higher energy costs, global competition, and a decline in demand.
RED SOX NOTEBOOK
The Red Sox filled a roster need by acquiring veteran catcher Ryan Hanigan from San Diego.
The former Celtics guard was introduced in Dallas on Friday following his trade there on Thursday.
CELTICS 114, TIMBERWOLVES 98
The Friday night match was Boston?s first game since trading Rajon Rondo to the Dallas Mavericks.
ideas
An entrepreneur?s 1806 scheme to sell chunks of frozen New England ponds still shapes how we live.
The century-old span has for years been a pedestrian link between downtown and the South Boston Innovation District.
Innovation Economy
When Keurig released a line of ?2.0? brewers that don?t work with unauthorized cups, the pod people struck back.
Michael A. Cohen
Media overreach in Sony hackBy feasting at the trough of misbegotten gains, major outlets increased the pressure on Sony to cave.
Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
Photos from the last four months of 2014 depicting news events and daily life around the world.
Breslow, 34, is coming off the worst season of his career, but he says he?s healthy and ready to rebound.
Stephen Silva pleaded guilty to possessing a gun similar to the one used by the bombing suspects to kill an MIT police officer.
November?s election swept in a bevy of new Beacon Hill denizens, from freshly minted legislators to top aides.
The man pleaded guilty to illegally selling human organs in 2011 and served more than two years in prison.
The agency is planning to move about 2,400 workers to the site, including 1,600 employees now in Park Square.
A reporter spent a day on set for ?Bleed For This,? the Martin Scorcese film about R.I.-bred boxer Vincent Pazienza.
Inside the files of the Islamic State in IraqWhat we are learning about the militants from their declassified spreadsheets.
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