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CVS has agreed to pay Pennsylvania $250,000 to settle consumer complaints that it sold expired food and over-the-counter drugs. The chain must also give $2 coupons to any consumer finding out-of-date merchandise on store shelves. The settlement announced today by state Attorney General Tom Corbett...

It is no secret: college tuition continues to rise despite the shrinking middle class and higher than expected unemployment rates. Is there a correlation between the shrinking middle class and the rise in college tuition? Many, including the president of the United States, believe so, and are...

Americans can now buy a bottle of wine out of a vending machine as if it were a Coke or a bag of Cheetos. No surprise how that's playing in France, the self-styled wine capital of the world and a place not known for its tolerance of bourgeois enterprise. Well, the French are not only turning their...

Timeshare sales. For many that evokes thoughts of high-pressure sales tactics in an industry that has been plagued at various times with a deservedly poor reputation. Timeshare complaints from Ohio consumers alone nearly doubled from 2008 to 2009 to 80 and complaints so far in 2010 are on a pace to...

America's vanishing farmland isn't a new problem. But one county in Eastern Pennsylvania thinks it has a solution. It launched a program that teaches prospective farmers how to set up a farm, grow their own crops and keep the business afloat.

There's no love lost between Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers fans, but a measure under consideration by the Pennsylvania legislature could spark an all-out war between the states. If passed, the state will attempt to erect toll booths on 11 interstate roads where they enter Pennsylvania,...

For thousands of Pennsylvanians, the state's Big 4 lottery coming up 7-7-7-7 Wednesday meant a lucky windfall. But for numerologist Tania Gabrielle, it meant more. If you believe in such metaphysics, Pennsylvania and its neighbors are in for something, well, big. "It's indicating a sudden event --...

This is enough to make me want to move to Pennsylvania. The state will give you a loan of up to $60,000 to pay your mortgage and taxes to keep your house if you lose your job. Whoever thought of this program, I am sending you cyber hugs. No, no, actually, I am nominating you for president. You...

Mother Nature's fury this winter has left a path of fiscal destruction that will linger far after the record-breaking snowfall starts to melt -- and she's not done yet. But for some businesses, blizzards mean opportunity.

Talk about a rough night. Two Pennsylvania college students were arrested recently for refusing to pay a tip. According to media reports, Leslie Pope, a senior at Moravian College, and her boyfriend John Wagner, a grad student at Lehigh University, wound up in the back of a squad car after...