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  • Frank CaprioSuccess

    Frank Caprio, Rhode Island’s friendly and folksy municipal judge turned YouTube star, dies at 88

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • CVS Health CorpFinance

    DOJ files complaint against CVS for filling ’unlawful’ prescriptions of opioids and seeking reimbursement for them

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Cigarette butts sit in an ashtray on March 28, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)Health

    Massachusetts lawmakers push for ‘generational tobacco ban’ so that those who can’t buy cigarettes now never can

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Stavros Papantoniadis, owner of Stash’s Pizza, a Boston sanitary grade certificate after inspection by the Health Division of the Inspectional Services Department on Nov 2, 2016, in Boston. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, File)Success

    Boston pizzeria owner convicted of forced labor and sentenced to 8.5 years after threatening his workers with deportation

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • Sen. Robert Kennedy poses with his wife Ethel outside the Senate Chamber on Oct. 13, 1965.Politics

    Ethel Kennedy’s legacy captured in 10 photos: From Camelot to social justice work

    By Michael Casey, Steve LeBlanc, and others
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, speaks with Sen. Edward Markey.Politics

    Steward Health CEO sues over Senate resolution holding him in contempt

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee business meeting. He is behind his name plate at a long desk and is gesturing with his right hand.Politics

    Steward Health Care CEO held in criminal contempt by Sanders Senate committee

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders smiles while under a tree.Politics

    Sanders vows contempt if CEO refuses to answer on getting ‘fabulously wealthy’ while hospitals went bankrupt

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • Bernie SandersFinance

    Bernie Sanders demands answers from CEO accused of loading hospitals with billions in debt and then selling the land underneath

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Massachusetts Statehouse is seen in Boston on Jan. 2, 2019. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed into law a bill Wednesday, July 31, 2024, requiring businesses with 25 or more employees to disclose a salary range when posting a job. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)Success

    Massachusetts will make businesses with over 25 employees disclose salary ranges when posting jobs

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • Maura HealeyHealth

    Massachusetts throws $30 million at bankrupt for-profit hospital operator to keep six medical centers running

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • eBay logo on a phoneRetail

    7th ex-eBay worker sentenced for ‘unspeakable campaign of harassment’ involving a fetal pig and live bugs

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • Uber is driving on the roadFinance

    ‘All workers deserve a union’: Ride-hailing drivers in Massachusetts are advancing a first-of-its-kind ballot question to gain union rights

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A passerby walks past a sign offering directions to an Uber and Lyft ride pickup location at an airport, Feb. 9, 2021, in Boston. Drivers for Uber and Lyft will earn a minimum pay standard of $32.50 per hour under a settlement announced, Thursday, June 27, 2024, by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, a deal that also includes a suite of benefits and protections. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)Finance

    Uber and Lyft will pay Massachusetts drivers a minimum $32.50 an hour—and give state $175 million—in settlement deal over wage violations

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press
  • Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee's Subcommittee on Primary Health & Retirement Security, speaks during a news conference on the Right to Contraception Act outside the U.S. Capitol on June 5, 2024 in Washington, DC.Health

    Senator blasts ‘gross financial mismanagement’ at hospital chain that filed for bankruptcy, seeking to protect pay and benefits for 30,000 workers

    By Steve LeBlanc and The Associated Press