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Zillow Inc. has launched a mobile-enabled collaborative home search and shopping tool, Agentfolio, that's aimed at buy-side agents and their clients, allowing them to search, comment on, review and share homes they are interested in.

Washington, D.C.-based Compass Point has hired Paul Mattaliano as director of sales in Boston, along with Robert Keane, Alexander Krasutsky and Peter McCorry Jr. as senior vice presidents in equity sales in New York.

Authorities believe they've found the body of a cancer patient missing since a small plane crashed last month in upstate New York.

But don't worry! A U.S. District Court judge in New York soon may give a ruling that helps get those numbers up.

When Jeff Sheppard, principal of Denver's Roth Sheppard Architects, launched the "Micro Housing Ideas Competition" back in January, he had no idea where the entries would come from.

Bev & Company moved to the Triphammer Marketplace in the Village of Lansing in February.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani took aim at U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey's attempts to hit Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez on abortion, saying the Malden Democrat is recycling an age-old liberal trick to scare women voters.

Federal transportation regulators ordered a discount bus service between Boston and New York to shut down Thursday, saying its vehicles and drivers were a threat to public safety and that it once dispatched a bus with a large hole in the bottom.

J. Cole is gifting fans with a special one-time opportunity to preview his Born Sinner album before it descends June 18. At 8pm EST/ 7pm CT/ 5pm PST on Thursday, June 6, residents of Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Chicago, Toronto, Houston, Los Angeles, and Cole's native Fayettville, North Carolina can bless their ears with the new LP via their ... (more)

The nation's economy expanded at a modest to moderate pace across most of the country the past six weeks as the housing recovery continued to show solid gains but federal budget cuts dampened manufacturing, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

Canada's Gov. Gen. David Johnston says he has written Queen Elizabeth II to congratulate her on the 60th anniversary of her coronation, which is being celebrated this week in London.

"No excuses" charter schools that target low-income, minority students are raising math scores, reports the New York Time s, but it's harder to teach reading to disadvantaged students.

Get excited, Bethesda chocolate lovers. Chocolatier Max Brenner has set an opening date for its Chocolate Bar on Bethesda Row: June 22.

The girls - Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall - made a stop in Miami while traveling across the U.S. to promote their debut album, "DNA." They have already held meet and greets in several cities, including Boston, New York City and Rochester.

Although Boston had a rich maritime heritage, by the early 20th century she was struggling to hold her place against ports such as Baltimore and New York City.

The Louis Berger Group, New York, has hired Kirit Mevawala as director of rail and transit.

TROY, N.Y.>> David Javsicas, a popular seventh-grade reading teacher known for urging students to act out dialogue in the books they read in class, sometimes feels wistful for the days when he taught math.

Some of the 60 roads, bridges, and culverts in line for repairs have gone for years in need of fixing.

For nearly two weeks, Canada's largest city has been in the midst of chaos and uncertainty over a video allegedly showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine.

First lady Michelle Obama is slated to attend Democratic fundraisers in Boston and New York on Wednesday, her first fundraising foray since her husband was reelected.