Greater Worcester

A proposed six-story, 120-room hotel next to the Washington Square rotary in Worcester would fill a need in the city and complement its downtown economic development strategy, the hotel's developers told a neighborhood group Thursday night.

UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) will post a $29 million operating surplus in fiscal 2014, according to preliminary results the Worcester-based health care system shared with bond investors this week.

In the world of cyber security, an entire industry has materialized around selling information about vulnerabilities in programs, alternately offering the ability to protect against these flaws in the programs and allowing them to be used as cyber weapons.

Several major companies with operations in Central Massachusetts received the highest scores on equality from a national advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans.

VSA Massachusetts of Boston has merged with the Integrated Health and Human Services Network of Worcester's Seven Hills Foundation.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $9.5 million grant to investigators at the University of Massachusetts Medical School to establish a research center that would investigate the cause and treatment the most common form of inherited intellectual and developmental disability, known as Fragile X.

Fallon Health of Worcester said it earned $1.9 million in the third quarter of this year on revenue of $323 million.

A Worcester developer of business property has bought an office complex in Hudson for nearly $3 million, the company announced.

Filling a second major Cabinet post, Governor-elect Charlie Baker has tapped Shrewsbury Republican Rep. Matthew Beaton as his energy and environmental affairs secretary.

City Manager Edward Augustus has appointed Acting Chief Development Officer Michael Traynor to the role on a permanent basis as the city looks to maintain its development momentum.