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Federal ban sought for animal testing on cosmetics
Hoping to build off recent bans in Europe and India, opponents of animal testing in cosmetics plan to make a big push for a similar prohi ...
10 years ago
Papers filed to close Trump Taj Mahal
The owner of the struggling Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, has filed court papers to close it by next month, ...
10 years ago
UberX in Pa. doesn’t change enforcement of Philly’s ban on ‘ride sharing’
The ride-sharing service UberX just escaped legal limbo in Pennsylvania – except in Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Public Utilit ...
10 years ago
Report: Deep budget cuts, emergency manager only way to save Atlantic City
Virtually every aspect of Atlantic City, from the locus of fiscal authority and the number of police officers, to the scope of commercial ...
10 years ago
Chamber reports on ‘state of Hispanic business’ in Philly region
Prompted by the rapid growth of Hispanic-owned businesses, the Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has released the first & ...
10 years ago
Bakery workers at Philly airport seek parity with other subcontracted employees
The new year will bring a wage increase for many Philadelphia International Airport workers, thanks to an executive order from Mayor Mich ...
10 years ago
Uber X service wins OK in much of Pa.
The ride-sharing service Uber X has won a conditional two-year license to match riders with personal vehicles throughout much of Pennsylv ...
10 years ago
Reading Terminal Market rolls out Instacart for delivery in an hour or less
Holiday specialty shopping just got a whole lot simpler today when Instacart launched its Reading Terminal Market service. In cert ...
10 years ago
Transit Worker’s Union 234 ratifies two-year contract with SEPTA
The union that represents SEPTA bus, subway and trolley drivers ratified a new contract with SEPTA. TWU 234 President Willie Brown ...
10 years ago
News site monitoring Philly gun violence ends daily reports
For more than two years, the news website guncrisis.org documented nearly every shooting in Phila ...
10 years ago
Former Inquirer co-owner behind Philly journalism startup
South Jersey political powerbroker George Norcross appears to be starting a new journalism website, months after leaving his job as co-ow ...
10 years ago
Power restored to Comcast subscribers
Comcast has restored service for most customers affected by an outage that left screens dark across the country. An unknown n ...
10 years ago
Targeting ambitious ‘queen bees,’ women’s working space opens in Philly
A new working space opened at Second and Race streets in Philadelphia’s Old City this week. But this is not another boy’s clu ...
10 years ago
Feds announce 1st bitcoin securities fraud case
A New York prosecutor says the federal government has brought its first bitcoin securities fraud case, accusing a 32-year-old Texas man o ...
10 years ago
PPL cutting 450 jobs ahead of plant spinoff
A Pennsylvania utility says it’s eliminating 450 jobs as part of cost-cutting stemming from a planned spinoff of its competitive ge ...
10 years ago