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Jul 3, 2009

WASHINGTON - Like many unemployed older workers, Allan Kellum, 64, fears his age has made it harder to find a job. At a recent job fair, Kellum expressed interest in a supervisory role coordinating an...

Jul 7, 2009

The next time you go to Israel you don't have to go through all the trouble flying from Newark, N.J. or New York JFK's. Starting Tuesday U.S. Airways will fly non-stop to Tel Aviv from Philly.

Jul 6, 2009 | 1 comment

With about 150 golfers in town and thousands of spectators expected, hotels, restaurants and other businesses reaped the benefits of the LPGA's U.S. Women's Open coming to Bethlehem, Pa.

Jul 2, 2009

The city's hoping a $2.9 million investment in workplace training will translate into hundreds of new jobs.

Jul 1, 2009 | 4 comments

You might not need to fork over any money on your way down the Jersey Shore.

Jul 7, 2009 | 2 comments

If you’ve struggled with credit card debt, lost your job or your home during these tough economic times, there is now free help for you.

31 minutes ago | 1 comment

Once the world's largest and most powerful automaker, the troubled company is expected to emerge cleansed of massive debt and burdensome contracts that would have sunk it without federal loans.

Jul 9, 2009

Riding a wave of public outrage over credit card practices, 7-Eleven Inc. wants to show merchants are victims of the industry too.

Jul 9, 2009

Comcast Corp. says that movie selections from the Starz premium movie service will be part of a test to put more entertainment content on the Internet for paying Comcast cable-TV subscribers.

Jul 9, 2009

Metro Bank hires Commerce Bancorp founder and Metro mentor Vernon Hill's old deputy, Peter Musumeci, as chief lending officer

Jul 9, 2009

The path is now clear for General Motors Corp. to leave bankruptcy protection in record time as a leaner company that is better equipped to compete in a brutal global auto market.

Jul 9, 2009

Dollar Financial Corp. said that it had acquired two 179-year-old pawnshops in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland.

Jul 9, 2009

"This is not about me, it's about YOU!" Nails tells investors re his bankruptcy

Jul 9, 2009

Philadelphia-based Cozen O'Connor said today that it was opening of two new Pennsylvania offices: in Harrisburg and Wilkes-Barre.

Jul 9, 2009

General Motors Corp. sped toward a record-short escape from bankruptcy protection Thursday when a judge's order approving the sale of most of its assets to a new company went into effect.

Jul 9, 2009 | 1 comment

Get ready to get your fill. Chick-fil-A restaurants are giving out freebies on Friday.

Jul 9, 2009 | 2 comments

Increasing distrust in the stock market has led investors into Treasurys, even as the government floods the market with billions in debt with no end in sight.

Jul 9, 2009

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff will not appeal his 150-year sentence for a fraud that unraveled overnight last December when Madoff confessed to his sons that nearly $65 billion he promised investors...

Jul 9, 2009

Owners of shopping malls, hotels and offices are defaulting on their loans at an alarming rate, and the commercial real estate market is not expected to hit bottom for three more years, industry experts...

Jul 9, 2009

Mount Airy-based developer Ken Weinstein says oldest son Ari, a 15-year-old Germantown Friends student attending computer camp on the West Coast, "is getting job offers from Israel and all over," thanks...

Jul 9, 2009

Officials at a New Jersey nuclear power plant say a maintenance problem is to blame for a tritium leak this year.

Jul 9, 2009

A township supervisor in central Pennsylvania has been jailed because the municipality has been too slow in getting 80 rural homes to switch from septic systems to sewage.

Jul 9, 2009

LATROBE, Pa. - Kennametal Inc. said Wednesday it plans to offer 6.5 million common shares and use the proceeds to pay down bank debt.

Jul 9, 2009

If you walked into the right RadioShack store last weekend, you could get an Acer Aspire "netbook" computer for free. The catch: You would have to sign a two-year contract for mobile Internet service from...