North Carolina’s workplace safety agency is leading an investigation into why a scaffold with several men on it broke free from the facade of a high-rise construction project and killed three workers.

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A judge has ordered a Queens restaurant to pay $2.7 million to 11 workers in back wages.

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Morgan Stanley’s chief financial officer, Ruth Porat, is leaving the New York investment bank for the same job at Google Inc.

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Would you pay to see some of the Internet’s best video clips first? Vessel, a new service trying to change the way that short video pieces make money on the Internet and mobile devices, is betting on it.

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Today, it’s tough to get a small-business loan. But three approaches may pay off for borrowers.

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Parents and teachers at a California school district where celebrities including Cindy Crawford have removed their children over fears about toxic PCBs are filing a lawsuit demanding all caulk containing elevated levels of the contaminant be removed.

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Don’t cheat yourself. Even savvy small-business owners forget about these deductions.

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With the trial over the state’s 2011 overhaul of the public pension system looming, retired public employees suing the state overwhelmingly accepted a proposed settlement Monday.

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Efforts to raise Maine’s minimum wage were met with resistance Monday from Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration, GOP lawmakers and business groups who say the proposals could do more harm than good.

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