Palmer casino proposal unveiled

Local officials in Palmer will vote Tuesday on a deal with Mohegan Sun that would pay the town nearly $3 million upfront, followed by at least $15.2 million annually, in exchange for allowing the company to build a $1 billion casino there. If the Town...

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Cream of the crop of hot Boston market

Home prices are still surging, but the pace of the gains has steadied as interest rates continue to rise, according to the most recent S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. Still, there are some eye-popping properties up for sale in Boston — if you're...

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New Housing sales soar

The time to buy your dream home could be now — as long as nobody outbids you on it — according to new housing-sales numbers from the Greater Boston Association of Realtors. The numbers show from July 2012 to July 2013, new listings in eastern Massachusetts'...

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HelmetHub set to lift lid with first safety headgear rentals

With two years under its belt and more than one million rides, bike sharing in Boston is taking off, and one local startup has been tapped by the city to make bike safety as popular as bike sharing. Breanna Berry, co-founder of HelmetHub, says the lack...

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Billerica firm lands DOE grant for fuel cell tech

A Billerica company's clean-energy technology will help refrigerated tractor-trailers run more quietly and emit far less carbon when making fresh- and frozen-food deliveries. Nuvera Fuel Cells won a $650,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant to adapt...

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China arrests British, American investigators

BEIJING — Two corporate investigators, a Briton and an American, have been arrested in Shanghai on charges of illegally selling personal information about Chinese citizens, police announced Tuesday. The announcement was the Chinese government's first...

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Three intrigue for next Microsoft CEO

Microsoft — the largest software maker in the world and a critical Kendall Square anchor — needs a new grand marshal following longtime CEO Steve Ballmer's sudden announcement that he is retiring within a year. The Redmond, Wash.-based company needs...

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Economists: future deficits top US fiscal problem

NEW YORK — The biggest fiscal challenge facing the U.S. is the size of projected deficits in the 2020s and 2030s, according to a survey of business economists. The National Association for Business Economics surveyed 220 of its members in July and August....

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Patent sought for infant-saving AIR

A pioneering MIT researcher is tackling the huge problem of infant deaths with a simple device he put together on the night he learned that nearly 2 million children die on the day they are born. "I had a few sensors literally lying in the trash in...

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3-D Pancam's big potential

Video cameras can do a lot today, but picture one that has such varied uses as entertainment, surveillance, facial recognition — even interior design — and you've pretty much got the Pancam — or Eric Prechtl's vision of it, anyway. With enough seed...

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