BOSTON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Massachusetts has agreed to drop a manslaughter charge against a company implicated in a death in a Big Dig tunnel in return for $16 million in penalties.

BOSTON, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- The family of a woman killed in Boston's 2006 Big Dig ceiling collapse will get a total of $28.1 million to settle their case, their attorneys said Tuesday.

BOSTON, June 24 (UPI) -- Modern Continental Corp., the largest contractor in a multi-billion-dollar Boston tunnel project has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, court documents show.

BOSTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Powers Fasteners has reached a $6 million settlement in a civil suit brought by the family of a woman killed a collapse at Boston's Big Dig.

BOSTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Two firms have offered to pay "well north" of $300 million to avoid criminal charges in a fatal tunnel collapse in Boston's Big Dig, it was reported Sunday.

BOSTON, July 11 (UPI) -- Builders and suppliers are to blame for a tunnel collapse that killed one woman beneath Boston Harbor in Massachusetts, said federal investigators.

BOSTON, June 27 (UPI) -- The lawyers behind a Boston lawsuit involving an accidental death in last year's Big Dig collapse are formulating a plan to gain a landmark settlement.

BOSTON, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A lawsuit will name seven companies involved in the design and building of the Big Dig tunnel ceiling, the Massachusetts attorney general announced Monday.

BOSTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Massachusetts has employed the same management consultant that oversaw previous Big Dig work in Boston to check repairs after a fatal accident.