Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. said it will cut 500 jobs this month or about 2 percent of its total work force, citing losses in its investment portfolios and declining revenue. ...more

November 5, 2008

Shares of troubled banks Washington Mutual Inc. and Wachovia Corp. recovered on Tuesday as investors grew hopeful that American International Group Inc. would receive much-needed funding. ...more

September 17, 2008

American International Group Inc. will be allowed to use $20 billion of assets held by its subsidiaries to provide cash needed for the troubled insurer to stay in business, New York Gov. David Paterson said Monday. ...more

September 16, 2008

It used to be that tax revenue was enough to cover the costs incurred by police and fire department when they respond to a fire or car accident. ...more

September 14, 2008

Wellesley College has lost a 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger that was likely worth millions of dollars, officials said. ...more

August 28, 2008

Peter Padilla's drug debts were more important to him than his brand new Cadillac Escalade. That's what the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says in court documents charging Padilla, 49, with arson, burning to defraud an insurer, making false insurance claims, dealing in stolen property and making a false report to law enforcement. ...more

August 21, 2008

The victim of a beating and rape three months ago at the Bloomingdale library, who remains in long-term rehabilitation, has gotten some help from the state. ...more

August 2, 2008

The 18-year-old victim of a brutal beating and rape attack three months ago, who remains incapacitated and in long-term rehabilitation, has gotten some help from the state. The family of the teen had received a letter from the insurance company that said the teen had to be moved from her current rehabilitation facility to another. The family and the teen's doctors disputed the insurer's decision, and the state stepped in. ...more

August 1, 2008

Hundreds of auto accidents happen here every year, and city officials say most of them are caused by motorists from somewhere else. ...more

July 26, 2008

Part of the multimillion-dollar legal fight over the 2004 collapse of two bridge piers on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway was resolved Monday. ...more

May 6, 2008