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When Ashley Alessio and her partner, Joseph DeGruttolla, first started to pursue a local franchise for The Wine Loft a year ago, they didn’t expect the venture to get ensnared in a credit-crisis saga. Yet, that’s exactly what happened.

Pennsylvania is preparing a sweeping overhaul in the way hospitals are paid for treating poor people, the biggest change in Medicaid reimbursement in decades, experts say.

A key stretch of Squirrel Hill’s pedestrian thoroughfare is for sale.