Rising fuel prices may be bad news for consumers, but they have translated into record sales for one Lancaster County firm.

Officials at Harley-Davidson Inc. said a class-action lawsuit filed by shareholders is without merit, and the company will fight the case in court, according to the company’s latest SEC filing.

Harrisburg native Newt Gingrich will deliver the keynote address at the Manufacturers’ Association of South Central Pennsylvania’s 100th anniversary celebration.

Glatfelter is getting three things with its acquisition of an Ohio company’s carbonless paper business.

JLG Industries Inc. sold its line of Gradall excavators to Alamo Group Inc. for $39.4 million.

Michael Judge appreciated fine cars before he was allowed to drive.

York International Corp. will cut 47 salaried positions at its headquarters in Spring Garden Township, York County, next month.

Harley-Davidson Inc. reported third-quarter earnings of $265 million, up 15.7 percent from the same period of 2004.

Atlanta-based TransMeridian Airlines was unable to restructure its debt and shut down all flight operations as of midnight.

Fred Testa sat anxiously in the back of a Dauphin County courtroom. On the stand, Judge Lawrence F. Clark was grilling an attorney for Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority. As attorney Timothy Neiman answered, Testa, director of aviation at Harrisburg International Airport, would whisper his own responses to the judge’s questions into a colleague’s ear.

The Hershey Co. has introduced a new cocoa label and antioxidant seal on its line of dark chocolate candies to tout the health benefits of dark chocolate, according to the company.

A subsidiary of Carlisle SynTec Inc. will construct a manufacturing facility in western Pennsylvania.

Employment in the U.S. manufacturing industry rebounded this month after dipping in August, according to a report by the Society for Human Resource Management and the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations.

An Ohio plastics company is selling a Lebanon manufacturing facility and the business unit to which it belongs.

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