The cost of a restaurant liquor license in York and Lancaster counties may fall from the heights they reached in recent years, partially because fewer grocers stores are looking to buy them.

An October report released by the American Investment Council and EY, a global business advisory organization, showed the private equity industry -- private equity firms or companies backed by private equity -- supports 26 million jobs nationwide. That includes 1.1 million jobs in Pennsylvania, according to the report.

The former York County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Stephen Linebaugh has joined Barley Snyder law firm as an attorney.