Pa. Convention Center sues Carpenters union for racketeering
Accusing the carpenters' union of "prolonged and coordinated violent, illegal, and extortionate conduct," the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority Thursday filed a racketeering lawsuit against the...
View ArticleOSHA says better training might have prevented DuPont worker deaths
Better training might have prevented the deaths of four workers killed by lethal gas November 15 at DuPont's facility in LaPorte, Texas, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Health and Safety...
View ArticleSteve O’Kane to Retire at A. Duie Pyle
Tweet Print This A. Duie Pyle Cos. President Steve O’Kane is retiring this month, and Randy Swart was named chief operating officer to lead the less-than-truckload operation. The company, based in West...
View ArticleNLRB says Crozer acted unfairly during September strike
The National Labor Relations Board said that Crozer Chester Medical Center management acted unfairly before, during and after a two-day strike in September involving 550 nurses in the Pennsylvania...
View ArticleA. Duie Pyle Receives ATA President’s Trophy Safety Award
WEST CHESTER, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A. Duie Pyle has been awarded the elite President’s Trophy from the American Trucking Association (ATA) for outstanding safety efforts in the trucking and industrial...
View ArticleRetirement of Steve O’Kane, President of A. Duie Pyle
WEST CHESTER, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Steve O’Kane, president of A. Duie Pyle, the premier provider of asset-based supply chain solutions and transportation in the Northeast, will retire in January 2014....
View ArticleOld City Coffee keeps perking along
As a coffee devotee, I was eager to write about the 30-year survival strategy of Philadelphia stalwart Old City Coffee. Wouldn't you know, just as I sat down to write - fueled by a cup of joe from my...
View ArticleTeamsters get back into Convention Center
In yet another complicated twist to the Pennsylvania Convention Center saga, members of the Teamsters local that had lost the right to work in the building are back in the building working. How did it...
View ArticleTalking "third wave" coffee with Menagerie co-owner April Nett
April Nett, 27, co-owner with Elysa DiMauro of Menagerie Coffee on Third Street, wasn't born when Ruth Isaac opened Old City Coffee in 1985. Now, part of the industry's "third wave," Nett competes with...
View ArticleTalking trucking with A. Duie Pyle CEO Peter Latta
Read the company-written history of A. Duie Pyle, the West Chester-based trucking firm, and it drives home the point that it believes it has succeeded because it is a non-union firm and has expanded...
View ArticleNine people shot at Mantua barbecue
Nine people were shot, including a baby and two children, during a barbecue Saturday night in Philadelphia's Mantua section, police said. The shotgun blasts left the three juveniles and three of the...
View ArticlePennsylvania prevails in shortened Big 33 Classic
HERSHEY, Pa. - Before lightning and heavy rain ended the contest at halftime, Imhotep Charter's D.J. Moore hauled in an 86-yard touchdown catch and Great Valley's Ryan Buchholz applied consistent...
View ArticleCole Berman wins Philadelphia Amateur golf title
Cole Berman had played with and against Michael Davis enough to know that his longtime friend and rival from their Inter-Ac days would keep fighting after Berman rolled to an early lead in the final of...
View ArticleEmily Bittenbender
General contractor Emily Bittenbender, 48, who describes herself as a high-end red neck, loves four-wheeling in the Pine Barrens. She also owns "two mean dogs," made her ex-fiancee her business partner...
View ArticleForman Mills' TV makeover was the real thing
Nearly a year ago, Rick Forman, chief executive of Forman Mills, was hunched over a toilet in his West Philadelphia store, wiping the bowl and trying to stay focused long enough to clean the bathroom...
View ArticleSeen this one before
The state Supreme Court is beset by feuding and allegations. The judicial discipline system puts in another poor showing. An outgoing justice calls for doing away with Pennsylvania's judicial...
View ArticleComcast making push to hire 10,000 veterans
Comcast Corp. plans to hire 10,000 military veterans, reservists or their spouses and domestic partners over the next three years, roughly 15 percent to 20 percent of all new employees, a top Comcast...
View ArticleHaven: Church called home in Brewerytown
A stately house of worship, designed in the Gothic style by famed architect Frank Rushmore Watson and built in 1888, was saved by real estate developer Jordan Brody in 2012, just as the wrecking ball...
View ArticlePhillies Notes: Morgan's debut Sunday a gift for his father
It was a phone call that Adam Morgan said he had dreamed about: calling his father to tell him he was headed to the major leagues. His father, Wiley, pitched at Alabama and coached Morgan until he was...
View ArticleSAUDI ARABIA
At the Saudi embassy in Tehran, diplomats talked about airing the grievances of disenchanted Iranian youth using Facebook and Twitter. At the embassy in Khartoum, they reported anxiously on Iran's...
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