New England Sun-Times

The nightclub isn't packed. The promoter isn't sure if the artist he's bringing will pack it. He also doesn't have the rest of the money he promised the artists who will be performing, because the ticket sales are low. A quick fix is to call you up and tell you that you will be on stage performing with Lil Wayne, Fetty Wap or some other major artist. He gasses you up, telling you that you will have a packed house and "some people from  Wayne's camp are gonna be in the audience. This is your chance to be discovered." Now that he has your attention, and you know this is what you've been wanting all your life, you bring him the "performance fee" and you're ready to be a part of the show. You beg at least 200 of your friends to show up and support you, but only 3 show. Your mother, Grandmother and stepdad. You've shelled out $300 to be on stage with Lil Wayne. This is your chance and your family is there to witness it all. At 7pm...

Mallinckrodt Will Pay $100 Million to Settle FTC, State Charges It Illegally Maintained its Monopoly of Specialty Drug Used to Treat Infants Settlement requires the company to license rights to develop a synthetic alternative to Acthar Mallinckrodt ARD Inc., formerly known as  Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and its parent company, Mallinckrodt plc, have agreed to pay $100 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges  that they violated the antitrust laws when Questcor acquired the rights to a drug that threatened its monopoly in the U.S. market for adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) drugs. Acthar is a specialty drug used as a treatment for infantile spasms, a rare seizure disorder afflicting infants, as well a drug of last resort used to treat other serious medical conditions. The  FTC’s complaint  alleges that, while benefitting from an existing monopoly over the only U.S. ACTH drug, Acthar, Questcor illegally acquired the U.S. rights to deve...

If the headline grabbed your attention, that's about all you will get as far as a definitive REASON for  Mark Wahlberg 's deliberate omission of Boston Police officer  Dennis O. Simmonds  from the  Patriots Day  movie. There IS no reason. And all of Mark's cohorts who make up his so-called production team claiming "we couldn't squeeze every person in only 2 hours" sounds like idiots. How many MORE Black police officers were hit by make-shift bombs that day? It is actually an important part of the story. Not only did an officer get hit in the head with a bomb, but his emotional and mental suffering continued for nearly a year until he finally died from his injuries. With all the hype about wanting Massachusetts Governor  Deval Patrick  to pardon sentencing for past crimes during his youth, Mark should have been very diligent and vigil about this grave oversight and how this "mistake" appears to the general public. Let's not even toss the rac...