Accountable care organizations have been getting some attention, thanks to health reform, but how the heck do you build one?

The newly shaped Republican presidential ticket is fighting growing pains amid charges from President Barack Obama's re-election team that challenger Mitt Romney favors his new running mate's controversial plans to overhaul Medicare and cut trillions of dollars from social programs.

After multiple years of losses, industrial employment in Pennsylvania increased 0.5 with 3,776 more industrial jobs between June 2011 and June 2012, according to the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Register, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News Inc. in Evanston, Ill.