Obama budget lifts premiums
WASHINGTON — Retired city worker Sheila Pugach lives in a modest home in Albuquerque, N.M., and drives an 18-year-old Subaru.
Pugach doesn’t s...
SAN FRANCISCO — Looking for a career change, Ken Shimizu decided he wanted to be a software developer, but he didn't want to go back to college to study computer science...
Burger King CEO to take over
NEW YORK — The new owners of Heinz are tapping Burger King CEO Bernardo Hees as the company’s next top executive, a move that installs one of...
WASHINGTON — GOP lawmakers have subpoenaed the private e-mails of Labor secretary-nominee Thomas Perez, a possible sticking point ahead of his Senate confirmation hearin...
Whatever decision the Butler County commissioners make regarding a reduction in the annual cost-of-living allowance for county elected officials, they won’t have to weig...
Saturday delivery will continue
WASHINGTON — The financially beleaguered Postal Service backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery, conceding Wednesday that it...
HARRISBURG — Two Pennsylvania senators are renewing an effort to ban coverage of elective abortions by insurance policies that are offered in Pennsylvania's health insur...
3-year contract covers 375 RNs
Registered nurses at Butler Memorial Hospital have a new contract.
Members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Profe...
PITTSBURGH — Highmark’s planned $475 million takeover of the financially struggling West Penn Allegheny Health System could potentially benefit consumers, but isn’t with...
HARRISBURG — An international manufacturer of hydraulic cylinders plans to open a facility in central Pennsylvania by the end of this year, Gov. Tom Corbett said Tuesday...