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Nov 19, 2008

Just months after paying off construction bills dating from its opening seven years ago, the Kimmel Center is undertaking its next act: renovations.

Nov 18, 2008

There were no fewer than 55 men in dark suits seated before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross here today, and 79-year-old Albert R. Boscov would have blended into the monastic monochrome if not for this:...

Nov 18, 2008

Citigroup Inc. announced plans yesterday to shed an additional 53,000 employees over the next year as the banking giant struggled to steady itself after suffering massive losses from deteriorating loa...

Nov 18, 2008

Lean Cuisine is recalling three very popular chicken meals because some customers have found small pieces of hard plastic in them If you have the Lean Cuisine Pesto Chicken with Bow Tie pasta, Chicken...

Nov 18, 2008

Its very roots - humble, cut-rate curbside sustenance - could be the salvation of a revitalized Ninth Street Market.

Nov 17, 2008

Cricket Communications Inc. said Monday it will hold two job fairs in Philadelphia next month in anticipation of beginning operations in the area next year.

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Mr. Kelleher went to Washington.

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A Maryland doctor said she felt "threatened and disappointed" after GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C. urged her to stop discussing her concerns that the company's diabetes drug, Avandia, caused heart p...

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ATLANTIC CITY - The construction tsunami that was meant to bring a classy luster to this place has slowed to a trickle thanks to the credit crisis.

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Maggots, the larval stage of certain flies, are already a federally approved treatment for people with nasty bed sores, chronic post-surgical wounds and diabetic foot ulcers.

Nov 19, 2008

Shares of Lincoln National Corp. lost nearly 40 percent of their value today as investors worried that life insurers would be hobbled far into the future by steep investment losses.

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Lame duck lawmakers in Washington are running out of time to pass a bailout for the U.S. auto industry. Top executives testified again Wednesday on Capitol Hill but the action is going on behind the scenes....

Nov 19, 2008

Housing starts fell in October to their lowest levels nationally for any month since the Commerce Department began record-keeping in 1947.

Nov 19, 2008

A proposed Center City tower that could dwarf the Comcast Center obtained the necessary variances and approvals from the City Planning Commission, the company managing the project, Hill International,...

Nov 19, 2008 | 8 comments

Stocks plunge to new low, Dow Jones Industrial Average dips below 8,000 for first time since March 2003.

Nov 19, 2008 | 3 comments

If Congress turns its back on the Big Three auto makers—as many expect—investors probably won't drive the stock market off a cliff.

Nov 19, 2008

With the holidays fast approaching, retailers are taking a softer approach to draw customers to their stores and websites.

Nov 19, 2008

The Radnor life insurer is one of four insurance companies to apply for help through the federal bailout plan.

Nov 19, 2008

H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest, the cable pioneer and philanthropist, will get what is considered the highest honor awarded to a local business executive next April.

Nov 19, 2008

The price of gas slipped down a few cents overnight in the region, continuing its pattern, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.

Nov 19, 2008

Tengion Inc. of East Norriton said today it received $21 million from a private sale of stock to existing institutional shareholders and one new institution.

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Online dating service eHarmony is adding another personality trait to its 29 dimensions of computability.

Nov 19, 2008

If you notice something is different with your Xbox today, you can blame a software upgrade.

Nov 19, 2008

Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program, facing a $500,000 budget cut by the city, has come up with one very small solution to its financial woes.