Penn breaks ground on Plainridge slots parlor

Penn National Gaming broke ground on its $225 million slots parlor at the Plainridge harness racetrack in Plainville, which is expected to open in "a little over a year," company officials said. Plainridge Park Casino will be an integrated gaming and...

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Cape Wind blows both ways

Cape Wind and its opponents are both claiming victory after a U.S. District Court judge yesterday upheld the Interior Department's approval of the proposed $2.6 billion offshore wind farm but said two federal agencies violated the Endangered Species...

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‘Dynamic’ $hift for Green Monster

Prices for seats and standing-room tickets for Fenway Park's Green Monster will be based on what the market will bear this season. The Red Sox have adopted so-called "dynamic" pricing for the tickets, which means prices — much like those for airline...

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Obama touts overhaul of rules on who gets overtime

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says it's not right that businesses that treat their employers fairly can be undercut by competitors who don't. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama is promoting his plan to update rules about which workers...

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Endangered: Boston condos under $500G

The number of Boston condominiums for sale for under $500,000 has plummeted by 84 percent over the past four years, leaving many people priced out of the market, statistics show. There were 424 active condo listings in the city as of March 10, and only...

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Shops focus on race, recovery

Nearly a year after the first bomb exploded in front of Marathon Sports during the 117th Boston Marathon, the Boylston Street store has recovered financially, but emotionally the scars linger. "That's going to be there for a while," owner Colin Peddie...

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Twitter feathers nest in Cambridge

Twitter plans to aggressively hire local brainiacs for its new Kendall Square headquarters for Twitter TV and Crashlytics — two ventures the San Francisco social media colossus sees as the keys to its future. "This is absolutely critical stuff that's...

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The Ticker

Flood bill passes Mass. House The state House of Representatives has unanimously approved a bill aimed at softening the impact of new federal flood insurance rules on many coastal homeowners. The measure would tie the level of flood insurance that...

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Japan lab weighing retraction of stem cell paper

TOKYO — A Japanese government-funded laboratory said Tuesday it is considering retracting a research paper describing a simple way of turning ordinary cells from mice into stem cells. The RIKEN Center for Development Biology in Kobe, Japan, has been...

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CBS chief Les Moonves: We’ll move online if Aereo wins in high court

The head of CBS ratcheted up the rhetoric yesterday, threatening to move the network off the airwaves and onto the Internet if Aereo's television streaming service prevails before the U.S. 
Supreme Court, but experts say it's likely just talk. Broadcasters...

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Alibaba buying media company ChinaVision for $804M

BEIJING — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is expanding into media by acquiring control of a Hong Kong film and television company, ChinaVision, for $804 million. Alibaba Group will buy new shares giving it a 60 percent stake in the TV company, ChinaVision...

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Agency sues American Airlines over tax incentives

CHICAGO — The agency that oversees public transportation in Chicago has filed a lawsuit claiming American Airlines is running a "sham" office in a small town to avoid paying taxes in the nation's third-largest city. The Regional Transportation Authority...

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Casinos’ projections trump panel’s

The annual gaming revenue projected by the competing Mohegan Sun and Wynn Resorts casino proposals exceed a new state Gaming Commission study, which factors in competition from the slots parlor the commission green-lighted to open at the harness racetrack...

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Austin tech firm had 20 employees on missing plane

AUSTIN, Texas — An Austin, Texas, technology company says 20 of its employees were aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing over the South China Sea. Jacey Zuniga, a spokeswoman for Freescale Semiconductor, says 12 Malaysian and 8 Chinese...

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Buick is showing classic symptoms of vapor lock

Here is a problem that I have fought for almost two years. My 2001 Buick Regal will not start after a shutdown and heat soak. The car has 128,000 miles, never shuts down while driving, starts and runs perfectly in the morning. When it won't restart,...

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Device aids weight loss

Doctors at three Massachusetts hospitals are recruiting people battling Type 2 diabetes and obesity for a clinical trial of a medical device that has been approved in other countries to reduce blood sugar and body weight without the need for the kind...

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