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From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — The top-ranked women's basketball team from Columbia, South Carolina, heads up Interstate 26 on Sunday for a matchup of two schools that share the same two-letter nickname. No. 1 South Carolina faces No. 3 Southern Cal in The Real SC event at…
From Merger Monday
For most of the past two years, the question in big deals was whether the money would show up. It did. This week the question changed to who else gets a vote. Start with Covetrus and MWI. A buyout-backed distributor agreed in March to buy its largest rival for $3.5 billion.…
From Merger Monday
Banks running the initial public offering of Anthropic PBC are turning away orders from investors in mainland China and Hong Kong, people familiar with the deal said, as the artificial-intelligence company heads into the final days before pricing what could be the largest listing on record. Several underwriters have refused orders…
From Merger Monday
SpaceX and Tesla Inc. have moved from discussing whether to combine to haggling over terms, people familiar with the talks said, putting Elon Musk within reach of a merger that would be the largest in corporate history. Boards and advisers at both companies are working through the price and the governance…
Crime
BOSTON, Mass. — The owner of a tiny Mattapan variety store has admitted in federal court in Boston that he ran a food stamp fraud scheme out of the shop, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Friday. Saul Alisme, 25, of Hyde Park, entered a guilty plea to a single count…
Crime
MALDEN, Mass. — A 43-year-old Malden, Mass., man has been charged with murder after his sister was found dead in a home on Lombard Court, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office and the Malden Police Department said Friday. Prosecutors identified the defendant as Jean Eddy Noel. The woman who died was…
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