Hershey News

Hershey's has cut 550 jobs in the town. Photograph: Carolyn Kastor/AP It calls itself the sweetest place in America.

In a company town where the street lamps are shaped like chocolate Kisses and orphans are cared for with corporate largesse, the prospect that America's biggest chocolate maker may merge with a foreign entity has unnerved some people.

Three hours from NYC, 1.5 hours from Baltimore, "Chocolate Town USA" has several attractions, most notably Hersheypark amusement park which -- in November and December -- turns into Christmas Candylane.

LONDON -- The world's largest chocolate makers are gearing up for a potential corporate battle to buy Britain's Cadbury, with Hershey and Ferrero saying Wednesday they were considering an offer to rival Kraft's hostile takeover bid.

The death of a Bainbridge man after a bar fight has been ruled a homicide, Lancaster County Coroner Dr.

The roller coasters won't be operating and the water park will be closed due to the colder weather of the holidays at Hershey Park, in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Construction of road improvements at the intersection of Route 422 and Lingle Avenue is expected to begin in the spring.

Wynonna says that the Judds -- she and her mother, Naomi -- are up for "everything" in 2010, when she tells Billboard.com that the duo will work in some capacity.

Breaking ground Friday for the Penn State Hershey Children s Hospital are, from left, Edward P. Junker III, chairman of Penn State Hershey Medical Center board of directors; Harold L. Paz, hospital CEO; and Graham Spanier, president of Pennsylvania State University.

A 49-year-old Lebanon woman failed to return to a pre-release program, or halfway house, in Reading Tuesday night.

Derry Township Police have charged a Lebanon County elected official with disorderly conduct.

Part auto-jumble and part concours, the Antique Automobile Club of America's annual national meet in Hershey, Pa., attracts nearly anything and everything automotive.

Police charged Anwar Ari Mcleod, 27, whose address is given as the Franklin County Prison in Chambersburg, with robbery and terroristic threats stemming from an incident June 22 at the Howard Johnson motel on East Chocolate Avenue, Derry Twp.

On the state's biggest stage, the WPIAL provided a standout performance at the PIAA girls' tennis championships yesterday in Hershey, Pa.

Most patients with hereditary angioedema have prodromal symptoms that signal an oncoming HAE attack giving the patients sufficient time to initiate treatment and decrease the morbidity associated with that attack, according to survey findings presented today at the 2009 American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

David Antonetti is at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and Ophthalmology, Penn State College of Medicine Hershey, PA USA.

An Elizabethtown woman suffered minor injuries early Saturday morning in a head-on crash on Mt.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed Tuesday that a 5-year-old Adams County boy is Pennsylvania's first swine flu-related pediatric death.

The Department of Health today confirmed today that a five-year old Littlestown kindergarten student died Saturday of complications from swine flu.

C/G Electrodes announced yesterday that Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, on behalf of the Statea s Department of Labor & Industry, awarded C/G Electrodes with its Governora s Award for Safety Excellence at a special luncheon at the annual Governora s Occupational Safety and Health Conference in Hershey on October 19.