PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network has signed a five-year deal to collaborate with Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Medicine on cancer treatment and research.

The deal was announced Monday, six months after both medical providers announced they had reached a memorandum of understanding to collaborate.

Allegheny Health Network is an eight-hospital network owned by health insurer Highmark Inc. Seven of those hospitals are in Western Pennsylvania, and five were part of the financially troubled West Penn Allegheny Health System.

CHINCHILLA — The U.S. Postal Service has spent nearly $200,000 in rent on a post office in northeastern Pennsylvania that's yet to open, more than six years after the agency signed a lease.The post office is planning to relocate from a trailer to a 1,500-square-foot property in South Abington Township, outside Scranton.The Times-Tribune of Scranton reports that drainage and access issues have helped delay the opening of the Chinchilla Post Office.The agency has been paying nearly $31,000 per year to rent the space while it tries to resolve the issues. The lease runs through May 2023.

DECATUR, Ill. — Archer Daniels Midland already makes sweeteners, fibers, emulsifiers and an array of other ingredients used in packaged foods and drinks. Now it's getting in the business of natural flavors.The agribusiness giant, based in Decatur, Illinois, said Monday it will acquire the privately held Swiss company Wild Flavors in an all-cash deal that will total $3.13 billion counting debt, or 2.3 billion euros. Founded in 1931, Wild Flavors makes natural flavors and “flavor systems” that help give products their distinct tastes.Natural and artificial flavors are listed as ingredients in a wide variety of packaged foods and drinks around the world. Such flavors help make Coke taste like Coke and Cheetos taste like Cheetos. But companies typically don't disclose what exactly goes into making those flavors, which are considered trade secrets.

SEATTLE — Washington state issued its first retail marijuana licenses Monday with a middle-of-the-night e-mail alerting bleary-eyed pot-shop proprietors that they'll finally be able to open for business.Randy Simmons, the state Liquor Control Board's project manager for legal marijuana, said Sunday night that the first two dozen stores were being notified so early to give them an extra few hours to get cannabis on their shelves before they are allowed to open their doors at 8 a.m. today.