New owners for health IT firm Arcadia Solutions

Burlington-based Arcadia Solutions LLC, a provider of data-driven health information technology services, said today it will be acquired by private-equity firm Ferrer Freeman & Co. LLC and Arcadia's senior management team. Terms of the deal were...

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People magazine says Channing Tatum is sexiest man

NEW YORK — Channing Tatum is People magazine's "sexiest man alive" for 2012. The 32-year-old actor says his first thought on hearing the news was: "'Y'all are messing with me.'" Tatum's film roles include "Magic Mike" and the upcoming "Foxcatcher."...

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AAA: More expected to travel by car this Thanksgiving weekend

A whopping 43.6 million Americans are projected to travel 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, a 0.7 percent increase from last year and the fourth consecutive annual uptick, according to AAA Southern New England. While...

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Pending Massachusetts home sales jump in October

The Massachusetts Association of Realtors said today that pending home sales in October had their second biggest year-over-year increase since the organization began tracking this data. The number of single-family homes put under agreement last month...

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Patrick administration focuses on need for more housing

Gov. Deval Patrick has outlined plans to build 10,000 multi-family units of housing per year with a goal of retaining the state's young, well-educated base of talent. "Access to housing for our middle- and moderate-income families is an important component...

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Shawmut Design and Construction taps Bill Walczak for VP post

Shawmut Design and Construction said today it has appointed William Walczak, co-founder and former CEO of Codman Square Health Center and Codman Academy Charter Public School, as vice president of community relations. "As a fixture in the Boston community...

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Stocks open mixed after gloomy retail report

NEW YORK — Stock indexes were mixed in early trading on Wall Street Wednesday. Strong earnings from Abercrombie & Fitch were offset by a gloomy prognosis on retail spending from the government. The Dow Jones industrial average was down seven points...

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Enchanted Village opens Saturday at Jordan's Furniture in Avon

The iconic animated Enchanted Village kicks off its 2012 season at Jordan's Furniture in Avon this Saturday and is free to the public. The old-fashioned, Victorian-era 8,000-square-foot display went from Jordan Marsh to its new home of Jordan's Furniture...

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FDA chief seeks new powers to police pharmacies

WASHINGTON — The country's top medical regulator is preparing to tell Congress that new laws are needed to police large specialty pharmacies like the one at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak. Testimony released ahead of the first congressional...

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Warren Buffett's firm will close suburban DC newspaper

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's company is planning to close a small Virginia newspaper that it bought from Media General earlier this year. The 10,000-circulation Manassas (Va.) News & Messenger, which began publishing in 1869, has been struggling...

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