Through the days leading up to the Ides of March, Tim Stout of Stout’s Transportation watched nervously as schools and college sports teams cancelled bus trips. Rider College even forced its baseball team, traveling in one of Stout’s $550,000 motor coaches on I-95, to turn around en route to Florida spring training to return home. But when Stout heard on the news that the U.S. military eliminated all non-essential troop moves because of the pandemic, he realized that he had a whale of a...

A federal judge in Harrisburg on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by a former student at the Milton S. Hershey School who alleged that the institution subjected him to gay-conversion therapy. Judge John E. Jones III ruled that Adam Dobson “failed to identify any basis in the record to conclude that what he characterizes as gay-conversion therapy resulted in the injuries he alleges.” “Plaintiff’s subjective accusation that Defendants engaged in ‘gay conversion therapy’ does not make it so,” the...

Error 0: Lawyers for a veteran meat-packing worker who died of COVID-19 last month have sued his former employer, the meat giant JBS, accusing it of wrongful death and negligence over the Haitian immigrant’s fatal encounter with the coronavirus. Enock Benjamin, 70, a union steward from Northeast Philadelphia, worked at JBS’s Souderton slaughterhouse, and died on April 3 from respiratory failure brought on by the pandemic virus, according to the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office. The...

Hamburg egg farmer Josh Zimmerman faced disaster about a month ago when his bulk-egg processor ran out of storage for liquefied eggs for cruise ships, hospitals, hotels, and school cafeterias. The yellow goo from millions of eggs, stored in bladder bags, had filled all the available freezer space. So processors had to shut off the flow. With a veritable Ol’ Man River of eggs, 60,000 a day rolling out of his hen houses, Zimmerman, 37, faced a hard choice: either euthanize his 80,000-hen flock...

By the time executives at the 385-employee Devault Foods in Malvern were seeking a mobile trailer as an extra break room for social distancing, the companies providing those services had closed as non-essential. “No one was answering the phone. I couldn’t get anything,” said Eric Strunk, the company’s director of facilities and engineering. So Strunk contacted The Party Center in Phoenixville. The firm offered a heated wedding tent for an add-on break room — with “cute little globes in there...