The Girl Scouts have an unusual problem this year: 15 million boxes of unsold cookies.

Shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings shot higher on Monday, setting the stage for another week of roller-coaster trading in shares of the theater chain operator and other retail investor favorites.

Worker shortages that are slowing the recovery from the COVID-19 recession largely have been blamed on generous unemployment benefits and people caring for kids and sick relatives. But there’s another reason companies are struggling to find workers to meet a historic boom in customer demand: Many Americans have started their own businesses. Continue reading >

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell for the sixth straight week as the U.S. economy, held back for months by the coronavirus pandemic, reopens rapidly. Jobless claims fell by 9,000 to 376,000 from 385,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The number of people signing up for benefits exceeded 900,000 in early January ...

Many Americans who moved last year relocated to areas where homes were, on average, bigger and less expensive.

The Pennsylvania Senate has approved a resolution that terminates Gov. Tom Wolf's disaster emergency declaration.

If TV reruns of “Midsomer Murders” are no longer filling your thriller needs, consider a new book that may keep you on the edge of your seat. Written by two brothers who grew up in Cumberland County – Tom Dardick, who lives in Enola, and Chris Dardick, now of Charles Town, West Virginia – “Sudden Onset” is a mystery with ...

When adults reflect on their childhood, some of their earliest forms of make-believe involved a tea set.

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When I learned that I was pregnant with my first child, and then a few weeks later learned that it was a boy, I could not have been happier! I knew the timing was right and that I would do everything I possibly could to raise a happy and healthy boy. However, there were some bumps along the way. Within ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — With Pennsylvania’s wide-open races for governor and U.S. Senate taking shape, Republican candidates with strong ties to Donald Trump are running and considered strong contenders for the party’s nominations — a powerful sign of the former president’s enduring popularity within the GOP. Within a few days of each other, Sean Parnell entered the race for U.S. ...

Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf chose Memorial Day to lay to rest the last of his COVID-19 restaurant and bar restrictions, with a return to full capacity. But beleaguered restaurant owners said it will be a long time before their industry returns to anything close to 100 percent, following the coronavirus pandemic that made dining and drinking in pubic unthinkable to ...

HARRISBURG — The unemployed in Pennsylvania — pregnant people, parents unable to pay child support, nursing students, and adult children caring for disabled parents, among many others — have spent months over the last year waiting to receive benefits they are entitled to from the state Department of Labor and Industry, to little avail. And depending whom you ask, some ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — At first, it was expected to be brief. At least that was the hope. Instead, a once-in-a-century pandemic has ground on for a year, throwing millions out of work and upending wide swathes of the American economy. Delivery services thrived while restaurants suffered. Home offices replaced downtown offices. Travel and entertainment spending dried up. Continue Reading