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U.S. VOTERS approved about $76.3 billion of bond referendums in the midterm elections. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

U.S. voters backing at least $24.4B of bond sales

NEW YORK - Voters across the United States were backing at least $24.4 billion of bond sales to support school construction and infrastructure upgrades...
Rhode Island Reps. Karen MacBeth and Michael Chippendale say they have received threatening letters regarding their probe into the collapse of Curt Schilling's game company 38 Studios. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/TONY AVELAR

Threats sent to R.I. lawmakers probing 38 Studios bonds

Two Rhode Island legislators investigating the collapse of former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s bankrupt video-game company have received poison-pen letters. Reps. Karen MacBeth and...
BY AGREEING TO A $2.5 million payment towards the debt the state inherited from 38 Studios LLC, Rhode Island may have preserved its credit rating. / COURTESY JACK NEWTON, VIA FLICKR/ CREATIVE COMMONS

Rhode Island House backs paying Schilling debt to avoid downgrade

BOSTON – Rhode Island lawmakers eased the threat of defaulting on bonds that backed former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s videogame company, agreeing...
FIRST RESPONDERS rush to where two explosions occurred along the final stretch of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street in Boston on Monday. Two powerful explosions rocked the finish line area of the Boston Marathon near Copley Square and police said many people were injured.  / KELVIIN MA/BLOOMBERG NEWS PHOTO

2 explosions, 3 dead reported near finish line at Boston Marathon

(Updated, 9:50 p.m.) BOSTON - Powerful bombs killed three people and injured scores near the finish of the Boston Marathon, turning one of the world’s...

NYC tops global competitiveness

NEW YORK - New York City ranks first among 120 cities across the globe in attracting capital, businesses and tourists, according to an Economist...

Rhode Island pension move may inspire other states, Fitch says

NEW YORK - Rhode Island’s retirement changes, which plan to cut its unfunded pension liability by 41 percent, may spur other states to take...
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