Bob Fernandez

The security that came with a Bell & Evans job is evaporating as the coronavirus sweeps through this part of Pennsylvania.

Central Pennsylvania poultry processor Bell & Evans, a favorite among upscale grocers, has been grappling with a salmonella problem as it looks to boost production.

Tourism, a big source of revenue, could take months or years to recover. Commuters will be loath to ride on full buses, which will convert profitable routes to money-losers.

Philly student loan borrowers carry more debt than those in New York and San Francisco. And delinquent payers aren't who you think.

Egg farmer Joshua Zimmerman got the dreaded call. His bulk-egg processor had run out of storage for liquefied eggs destined for fast food breakfast sandwiches and cafeteria-style scrambled eggs.

Plaintiff Adam Dobson contended that he was forced to watch the hour-long gay conversion video as punishment, and that it was followed by a campaign of prayer sessions and other efforts to get him to change his sexual orientation.

JBS tacked onto the production schedule in a Pennsylvania meat plant a “Saturday Kill” program to satisfy demand in the “public panic purchases of ground meat,” according to a suit claiming a wrongful death occurred to a JBS worker.

Across Pennsylvania, there are 22 meat and poultry processing plants with workers sickened by the coronavirus, the report says. Earlier Friday, 30 workers from Bell & Evans – a family-owned firm specializing in organic chicken, lined up in a caravan to protest conditions at the plant.

Eight workers who often traveled to work together in a van all got sick from the coronavirus. Crammed together for the 30-mile drive, none of them could keep their distance from one another on their way to jobs they couldn’t afford to give up.

David Lipson Jr., 64, relinquished the CEO title and said the company’s board hired Connecticut-based consultant Nick Fischer as as the company’s new chief executive.