Tennessee-based Unum Group has promoted its chief financial officer, Richard McKenney, to succeed retiring CEO Thomas Watjen, the employee-benefits provider announced Tuesday.
A former Telegram and Gazette employee is looking to online fundraiser KickStarter to fund a Worcester newspaper that will be available online and in print.
Researchers at University of Massachusetts Medical School and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, helped by a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, are developing a smartphone app that will help users better understand why they overeat.
Here we go again! Less than a week after a monster blizzard dropped about three feet of snow on Central Massachusetts – including a record in Worcester – the region was braced for another foot or so of snow today as schools canceled classes and many workers decided to stay home.
Life sciences firm AbbVie, which has operations in Worcester, saw a nearly 9-percent increase in fourth-quarter revenue, helped by double-digit growth in its popular arthritis drug, Humira.
In Worcester, the aftermath of Monday and Tuesday's blizzard means another day off today for public schoolchildren, and another day hard at work for street crews.