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Rite Aid leaves Chapter 11 bankruptcy privately owned by creditors, chain announces
CAMP HILL, Pa. — The Pennsylvania-based pharmacy chain Rite Aid announced Tuesday its emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with $2 billion less debt, a new chief executive and roughly half of the stores it once had. As part of its emergence from bankruptcy, some of the chain's creditors took...
Delaware pays $102 million in legal settlement to Pennsylvania, other states over unclaimed property
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!. Delaware will pay $102 million in unclaimed property funds to a coalition of states, including Pennsylvania, as part of a recent legal settlement. Pennsylvania and Arkansas led the...
McCormick targets Casey over fentanyl, border in new ad
Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick (R) targeted Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) over fentanyl and the border in a new ad unveiled Tuesday. The new ad featured Blair County Sheriff Jim Ott, who described how his son died due to a fentanyl overdose in 2020 that he said was nearly four times the lethal dose. He…
Traveling to die: The latest form of medical tourism
This story first appeared on KFF Health News. In the 18 months after Francine Milano was diagnosed with a recurrence of the ovarian cancer she thought she’d beaten 20 years ago, she traveled twice from her home in Pennsylvania to Vermont. She went not to ski, hike or leaf-peep, but to arrange to die. “I […]
Local governments need 12K people to function. Experts say you could be one of them.
Pennsylvania local governments are designed to be led by ordinary citizens, but finding and keeping the right people to do the job has become challenging for municipalities of all sizes. Dan Nott / For Spotlight PA. A version of this story first appeared in Talk of the Town, a weekly...
An At-Risk Butterfly Hunkers Down at Pennsylvania’s Biggest Bombing Range
This story first appeared in PA Local, a weekly newsletter by Spotlight PA taking a fresh, positive look at the incredible people, beautiful places and delicious food of Pennsylvania. Sign up for free here. The eastern regal fritillary butterfly once floated across meadows from North Carolina to Maine. Now the range of the vividly patterned insect is reduced to a single foothold inside the busiest National Guard training center in the country: Pennsylvania’s Fort Indiantown Gap. The military base spans 17,000 acres in Lebanon and Dauphin Counties. It can host well over 100,000 personnel in a given year for small arms, air-to-ground bomb...
Democrats repeat abortion attack on Scott Perry during tough reelection battle
Former House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry (R-PA) is facing Democratic fire over his stance on abortion as he races to secure a seventh term in the lower chamber. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is pouring nearly $300,000 into an ad buy targeting Perry for supporting the Life At Conception Act, according to a report […]
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