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800 Jobs Axed as Lawmakers Try to Bang Out Budget
Jul 9, 2009 | 24 comments
800 jobs are gone and state workers may be looking at their last paycheck until lawmakers get a budget worked out.
Older job seekers face age-barrier struggle
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...
Fly Non-Stop From Philly to Israel
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.
Ladies Golf Brings Big Bucks to Lehigh Valley
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.
Philly Pumps Stimulus Money Into Job Training
Jul 2, 2009
The city's hoping a $2.9 million investment in workplace training will translate into hundreds of new jobs.
Imagining a Shore Trip Without Tollbooths
Jul 1, 2009 | 4 comments
You might not need to fork over any money on your way down the Jersey Shore.
Free Financial Help
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.
GM Expected to Emerge From Chapter 11
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.
7-Eleven rallies customers against card fees
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.
Comcasts Starz movies to be tested online
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.
Vernon Hill's Metro Bank nabs another Commerce veteran
Jul 9, 2009
Metro Bank hires Commerce Bancorp founder and Metro mentor Vernon Hill's old deputy, Peter Musumeci, as chief lending officer
GM sale cleared, path opens to exit Chapter 11
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.
Dollar Financial buys 2 Scottish pawnshops
Jul 9, 2009
Dollar Financial Corp. said that it had acquired two 179-year-old pawnshops in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland.
Dykstra on his bankruptcy: "It's about YOU!"
Jul 9, 2009
"This is not about me, it's about YOU!" Nails tells investors re his bankruptcy
Cozen OConnor opening 2 more Pa. offices
Jul 9, 2009
Philadelphia-based Cozen O'Connor said today that it was opening of two new Pennsylvania offices: in Harrisburg and Wilkes-Barre.
GM's path to leave Chapter 11 apparently cleared
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.
Free Chicken? How Moooooving
Jul 9, 2009 | 1 comment
Get ready to get your fill. Chick-fil-A restaurants are giving out freebies on Friday.
Jittery Investors Dump Stocks for Low-Yielding Treasurys
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.
Madoff won't appeal 150-year sentence
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...
Commercial real estate woes grow
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...
For Mount Airy teen hacker, job offers pour in: dad
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...
Nuke plant blames maintenance problems for leak
Jul 9, 2009
Officials at a New Jersey nuclear power plant say a maintenance problem is to blame for a tritium leak this year.
Pa. township official jailed for septic delays
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.
Kennametal to offer 6.5M common shares
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.
Netbooks now being sold like cell phones
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...
Pool Boots Kids Who Might "Change the Complexion"
Swim Club Members: "Nothing to Do With Race"
Campers' "Complexion" No Problem for New Pool
Swim Club Members: "Nothing to Do With Race"
Worker Dies in Chocolate Vat; Company Operating Illegally
The Best And the Brightest: NPH Loves Philly