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Jimmy John's Introduces Dill-licious New 'Picklewich' There will be no "hold the pickles" allowed on these two new sandwiches from Jimmy John's. These are for the dill-heads out there. The nationwide ...

Celebrating a decade of battles for the best in plant-based cheesesteaks in the region, the Best Vegan Cheesesteak in Philly contest returns Sunday at the Philadelphia Ethical Society. Preliminary ...

Philly’s Best Cheesesteaks in Southern California started out as a way for homesick Philadelphians like founders Bob and Andrea Levey to satisfy their regional sandwich cravings. However ...

MERIDEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A historic site in Meriden is preparing to become a mixed-use housing development. A groundbreaking Thursday celebrated the kickoff of the project to convert the Aeolian ...

Connecticut is in need of about 90,000 more affordable housing units, but one project in Meriden aims to put a dent in demand, while preserving history. Meriden’s old Aeolian Organ and Music Company ...

On Thursday, there was a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of a former piano factory in Meriden that is being turned into mixed-income housing. “We always look at this big building and we’re ...

“What the heck is a cheesesteak?” Khan had asked co-founder Antonio Gambino, whose Philadelphian-Italian family had already made Andrea Pizza’s “biggest slices in town” a hot commodity ...

MERIDEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut State Police had to box in an alleged intoxicated New Hampshire driver who crashed multiple times and repeatedly tried to speed off from police. Troopers ...