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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Wegmans again has been named the top supermarket by the American Customer Satisfaction Index. The latest ACSI report released this week says the Rochester-based chain is the highest-rated overall retailer in America. Its score of 86 is up one notch from last year. Wegmans,...

PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP – Officials have approved a ceiling variance sought by developer J.G. Petrucci Co. for a proposed warehouse or manufacturing building along Route 33 in the Slate Belt.The Plainfield Township zoning board on Tuesday OK'd the change in height limits from 35 feet to 50 feet, according...

Air Products' executives joined officials Thursday in a groundbreaking ceremony for a $400 million world-scale plant to be built along the Gulf Coast. Air Products' steam methane reformer will produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide to be supplied to customers linked to Air Products' Gulf Coast gas...

In this exclusive Lehigh Valley neighborhood, heated driveways, theater rooms and spacious wine cellars are the norm. You'll find luxurious mansions with up to 10,000 square feet of living space on large plots of land. It's also the place many of the Lehigh Valley's chief executives call home.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A humane official says he's found six dead puppies in a trash can near a suspected dog-fighting site in Philadelphia. George Bengal, the director of enforcement for the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, says he found the dead puppies and a live adult...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman whose family controls several western Pennsylvania cheese-making firms will plead guilty — along with two of her companies — to charges that their grated cheese had too little cheese and too much wood pulp.Michelle Myrter is scheduled to plead guilty Friday morning before...

HARRISBURG — Attorney General Kathleen Kane strode into a Senate budget hearing Thursday to ask lawmakers for an additional $95 million for the 2016-17 fiscal year that begins July 1.The hearing was in the same room that another Senate panel used for public hearings on whether Kane should be removed...

MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. — Kohl's Corp. said Thursday it plans to close 18 underperforming stores as it meets the needs of its online customers.The company, which also issued a weak annual revenue forecast Thursday after posting a 20 percent drop in fourth-quarter profits, said it will announce the...

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan measure from Pennsylvania's two senators awaits President Barack Obama's signature after a final vote on the proposal to better protect federal prison guards.The legislation, which cleared the U.S. House on Wednesday, was drafted in response to the 2013 killing of officer...

EASTON — One of the pleasures of hagiography is that it approaches the truth on a slant, through the fires of imagination. That's how the truth of the saints can live on in the absence of facts, or at least in the absence of certainty. Could St. Joseph of Cupertino fly? We have only the testimony...