As a native upstate New Yorker who spent more than a quarter of my life living elsewhere, I am very familiar with the concept of craving a taste of home. Maria Papa, third-generation steward of the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Twenty years after Sister Paul Mercedes Perreca was struck and killed by a truck while walking to morning Mass, police and the Citizens Crime Commission are again asking for the ...

More Perreca’s Italian Kitchen, the 11-year-old Schenectady restaurant sibling of Perreca’s Bakery, founded in 1914, has adopted an all-takeout format that includes expanded drive-through pickup, ...

SCHENECTADY — The owners of More Perreca’s Italian Kitchen are preparing to purchase Cornell’s In Little Italy, two doors down North Jay Street. Maria Perreca Papa said Monday that she and a silent ...

Police are renewing efforts to solve a 20-year-old hit-and-run that killed a nun in Northeast Philadelphia. Police said Sister Paul Mercedes Perreca was killed in a hit-and-run on Jan. 9, 2006, at the ...

Schenectady, NY — Perreca's Bakery is a staple in Schenectady's Little Italy baking up fresh hard-crusted Italian bread in an ancient coal-fired brick oven. They also offer deli items and butter cream ...

When Jack Nicholson was filming Ironweed in Albany in 1987, he was first introduced to a bakery that would make a lasting impression. Nicholson's driver was from Schenectady, New York, and while the ...

SCHENECTADY — With the passing Wednesday of Lilia Perreca Papa, a landmark Schenectady bakery lost its matriarch and the community lost a friend known for her compassion to those who needed help.