Actavis UK raised the price of some hydrocortisone tablets more than 12,000 percent.
December 2016
Posted inBusiness
Falling tech and financial stocks send Dow down
But despite a slight dip, markets remain near their record highs even after the Fed announced a rate hike.
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Posted inNation & World, News
New Hampshire man gets 22 years for sexual assault 2 decades ago
The sentence is a big win for prosecutors who took a risk pressing a case from the late 1980s.
Posted inNation & World, News
Activists voice concern over Boston police’s body-camera tryout
They say that the department’s six-month trial lacks accountability.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Obama urges Trump to take Russian election meddling seriously
The president also chides the media for what he calls its ‘obsession’ with the flood of hacked emails made public during the election campaign.
Posted inMaine, Politics
Protesters, Trump supporters converging on Augusta for Electoral College vote
The Maine Republican Party has organized a rally to counter a coalition organizing demonstrations to urge electors to not vote for the president-elect.
Posted inMaine, News
Cape Elizabeth considers shopping bag fee, plastic foam container ban
The proposals mirror ordinances in effect in Portland and South Portland.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Nation & World, News
Navy’s call for dramatically larger fleet could boost Bath Iron Works
The Navy recommends increasing the size of its fleet to 355 ships within 30 years, up from fewer than 280 ships today.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
FBI backs CIA assessment that Russia intervened to help Trump win
Some lawmakers had suggested that the FBI disagreed with the CIA view.