The deluge of safety-related problems Toyota is experiencing has already washed away much of its reputation as a reliable maker of quality vehicles. Industry observers wonder now if the company can restore its badly tarnished image by fixing its defective vehicles and addressing the toll those flaws have taken on its customers. In February, Congress…

There’s yet another effort underway in the state Legislature to try to change the decades-old laws that forbid beer sales in convenience stores and grocery stores across the Commonwealth. Right now, you also can’t buy a six-pack of beer in a beer distributor in Pennsylvania — you can only buy a full case by law.…

At the Olympic Winter Games, no one is supposed to die. Certainly not a 21-year-old luge competitor from the Republic of Georgia, who was in Canada for his first Olympic games. But the athlete, Nodar Kumaritashvili,  died last Friday on a practice run on the luge track as he and his sled flew down the…

Have you seen those ads on television lately where some downtrodden fellow is so desperate that he arranges for his own car to be “stolen” so he can later file a claim for damages and gain a windfall? The guy ends up getting caught, of course, and is sent to jail. And the intended message…

Five African-American voters in Chester County are suing the county and its Board of Elections, alleging that their rights were violated under the federal Voting Rights Act as they stood in seven-hour-long lines to vote in their polling place in November 2008. But the legal claims involve more than just long lines, according to the…

Hold on to your Phillies, Flyers and Sixers hats, Philadelphia sports fans — the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ruled last week that Comcast Corp. now has to start making its Comcast-only SportsNet programming available to satellite TV providers. The FCC ruling came in a 4-1 decision to close a “terrestrial loophole” that had allowed Comcast…