Martha Coakley

States across the country are pushing for tougher consumer protection rules to address debt-collectors' use of cell phones and text messages, as well as better govern what happens when debts are sold on from creditors to collectors. The same rules that guide the way debt collectors are supposed to...

The utility National Grid blew $100 million on dubious expenses and the company got caught by New York state paying to relocate an executive's wine collection and for another's private-school tuition bills. Coincidentally, the Massachusetts attorney general said, they also want a $104 million rate...

A leading manufacturer of artificial hips and knees agreed to pay the state of Massachusetts $1.35 million to resolve allegations that it marketed orthopedic devices without regulatory approval and, to boost sales, withheld patient safety information from health care providers. A complaint filed...

LimeWire, a peer-to-peer file sharing network that was recently found liable to recording artists for massive copyright piracy faces an additional threat to its existence: Music publishers are suing it too, alleging the same piracy.

A bad campaign by their candidate hurt the Democrats in Tuesday's stunning Senate seat loss to the Republicans. But the biggest reason for their defeat was the high unemployment rate.