Greater Worcester

APAC Customer Services Inc., a Chicago-area company that provides outsourced sales, customer care, technical support, and back-office services, announced Friday that it plans to add 170 new jobs at its Worcester service center.

Driven by what is said were “strong price increases” for its personal and commercial lines, The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. Thursday reported a bump in both revenue and net income for the second quarter.

Registered nurses across the UMass Memorial Health Care system delivered a letter Thursday to CEO Eric Dickson objecting to staffing and service cuts.

Unum, the insurance company that employs more than 600 in downtown Worcester, saw earnings growth in the second quarter based on its core businesses in the United States and United Kingdom, the company reported.

Lawmakers opted to give shoppers a break from the state's sales tax on the third weekend of August, under a compromise economic development bill.

Single-family home sales dropped for the fifth consecutive month, according to data released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors (MAR).

Taiwan may be small, but the island state of 23 million people is vital to the Central Massachusetts economy.

The former site of the Worcester Sam's Club store has been sold for $3.2 million, according to Worcester real estate broker Glickman Kovago & Co., which represented the buyer, The Aster Group, also of Worcester.

Worcester attorney and Hanover Insurance Group Chairman Michael Angelini has been selected to lead the seven-member board that oversees the Massachusetts Port Authority, which oversees commercial aviation in the commonwealth.

Global sales for Illinois-based drug firm AbbVie rose 5 percent in the second quarter, driven primarily by a 26-percent jump in sales for its arthritis drug Humira.