(Reuters) - Three Boston University students were killed and five more were injured in New Zealand on Saturday when a van they were traveling in swerved off the road outside the vacation town of Taupo, the university said in a statement. The accident occurred about 7:30 a.m. New Zealand time on Saturday morning while the students were quot;on a weekend trip to the countryside,quot; the university said ...

(Reuters) - The New York Times Co sold its remaining stake in the group that owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team and Liverpool soccer club for $63 million in cash, the company said on Friday. A New York Times spokesman declined to comment on the buyer. The company will recognize a pre-tax gain of about $38 million in the second quarter for its share of Class B units of the Fenway Sports Group ...

(Reuters) - Authorities were digging in the Connecticut yard of an alleged mobster suspected of having information about a notorious Boston art theft more than 12 years ago, the Boston Globe reported on Thursday. The heist from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 18, 1990 is the largest unsolved art crime in the world and the biggest U.S. property theft ever, experts say. Thieves disguised ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston#39;s landmark Prudential Center and some 13,500 businesses and residences in the area temporarily lost electricity on Tuesday, less than two months after a more serious outage. Northeast Utilities said Tuesday#39;s outage started at the same site on Scotia Street where a transformer caught fire in March, leaving more than 20,000 customers without power, some for days ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc#39;s initial public offering pitch played to some bad reviews in New York, so for its Boston audience on Tuesday, the 30-minute video was scrapped and the company took more questions from analysts and potential investors. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg did not attend the breakfast pitch at the Four Seasons hotel in Boston#39;s Back Bay neighborhood. Facebook ...