Penn National Gaming has entered a definitive agreement to purchase a Perryville, Maryland casino’s operations for $31.1 million.

COVID-19 continues to take an economic toll as cases and deaths surge across America, causing the outlook for the current quarter and first quarter of 2021 to be downgraded.

When making medical house calls through Harrisburg-based skilled nursing service, Mike Lawler realized that home-care patients weren’t designing their living environments to fit their future health care needs.

Lancaster General Hospital is now a Level One Trauma Center after receiving accreditation from the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented online shopping for holiday gifts and supplies. But as anyone who has ever given or received a Christmas present knows – returns are an inevitable part of the process.

You probably know that Jet Ski, Styrofoam and Xerox are all registered trademarks. Yet, they have become synonymous with the entire category of products in which they compete. 

David Black, the longtime president and CEO of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber & CREDC, will retire in the middle of next year, it was announced Monday.

The Hershey Trust Company Board of Directors and the Milton Hershey School Board of Managers announced the election of Diane Koken as chairman and Maria Trinh Kraus as vice chairman effective Dec. 14.

“This is a pivotal moment in our fight against COVID,”Jahre said. “The world has been waiting for this vaccine, and we are on the cusp of being able to provide it.”

When Jenny Englerth was a preteen, she showed horses. She had excellent trainers and coaches, but Englerth especially admired the grooms, the people who cared for the horses. “They were horse whisperers,” she said.

Businesses across the state, especially in the restaurant industry, are unhappy with news of another COVID-19 shutdown.

Most business owners are afraid to talk to anyone when they are ready to sell their business. They fear the competition will find out and use it to their advantage. However, there are more things to fear than your competition. 

Visits with Santa will be different this year, but we’ve been assured that the jolly old elf is still determined to bring that sense of wonder to children, and smiles to the faces of weary parents who dream of simpler times.

Spencer Nauman Jr., 87, is senior partner at Nauman Smith Shissler and Hall, a Harrisburg-based law firm that will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2021. He is a member of the firm’s tax, trusts and estates, nonprofit law, business and employment law, and municipal law practice groups. He also spent three years in the United States Army and later served in the Pennsylvania National Guard.

The state will be prohibiting all indoor dining at businesses in the retail food services industry for the next three weeks. Indoor operations at gyms and fitness facilities are also prohibited, as are movie theaters.