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I know there are people out there who think Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery was treated unfairly because he was suspended this week for passing around raunchy emails.

Eric Dutt's 7-year-old son, Luca, visited his grandparents last weekend in Bethlehem.

Heidi Prescott and Johnna Seeton were among those who watched the state Senate finally vote late Wednesday to ban pigeon shoots and the "sport" of shooting tethered animals.

Paul Carpenter's column would have played in the opinion space today where it has appeared every Sunday since 1989.

It was a splendid dam, made of creek bed gravel, reinforced by big rocks and topped with large chunks of the sod that had been hanging over the bank. A lovely little waterfall was created by a spillway at one end of the dam, and a scenic pond now extended upstream.

There is something deeply disturbing about last Friday's attacks on two state troopers in Pike County, apart from the wrenching tragedy involving the death of one officer and the wounding of another.

As I write this on Tuesday morning, I am listening to police broadcasts from Monroe County, where fugitive Eric Frein has been spotted, more or less simultaneously, in two locations at some remove from one another in Paradise Township. He is either near a house on Sunset Drive or rummaging...

In Canadensis, a pair of father-and-son fortune hunters had stopped at Cole's Pizza for a bite to eat. The father's name is Tar — he looked like a World War II Navy hand, so maybe that's where he picked up the nickname — and the son's name is Clint. Their last...

I got to thinking the other day about the phrase "leafy suburb," because I happened to be standing in one — sort of one, anyway, as it was inside the Allentown city limits — and I had some time on my hands to mull things over.

Jane Hittner said Kraft's initial response to her complaint about breaking a tooth while eating peanut butter was to send her coupons for free salad dressing and cheese.

I can't tell you whether to believe assurances from those in power that the deadly Ebola virus will be kept in check, but there's no doubt that panicking can expose you to harm.

Does this sound familiar? You just couldn't pass up the sale you stumbled on. You were sure your spouse wouldn't mind because your credit card was offering a zero percent promotional interest rate on purchases.

Q: MacArthur Road at the Route 22 interchange is looking great. After all the money spent for this much-needed improvement to benefit vehicular as well as pedestrian traffic, I'm rather disappointed that the 'yield' sign remains at the end of the ramp from Route 22 west to...

Q: Calling on the Road Warrior to settle a difference of opinion. My friend recently had rotator cuff surgery. His left arm is in a sling and in a contraption that immobilizes his arm by strapping it to his chest. His left-hand is free but its range of motion is limited to what he can do by...

Q: On the subject of stop signs, there is an unusual situation in the Trexlertown Shopping Center. There are two-way stop signs at the Trexlertown Post Office, but the signs are perpendicular to each other. The end result is that the two non-stops at the intersection both have the...

Smoked butternut squash soup, seared duck breast with dried cherry sauce and poached pear with bleu cheese ice cream are just a few of the tasty creations that you are likely to find in the region's newest fine-dining restaurant, Heirloom, in Palm.

They walk with us. They watch television with us. They even listen to our problems when no one else will. In many ways, our canine companions truly are our best friends.

When it comes to the country's great wine-making regions, one naturally thinks of Napa Valley in California, the Finger Lakes in New York and the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania.

Beth Mowins, a 1989 Lafayette College graduate and a former Leopards basketball player, will work Saturday's Penn State-Maryland game for  ESPN2. Mowins, in her 20th year at ESPN, will be working with former Ohio State player Joey Galloway.

After months of speculation, Pocono Raceway announced on Thursday morning that IndyCar racing will return to Long Pond in 2015 for a third consecutive year.

Sadness. That's what I wake up with this morning.

The 110th World Series begins tonight.

Sometimes in football, as in life, a change of scenery can provide a refreshing jolt of energy.

Down 2-1 with less than 15 minutes left in the game, Steven Delisle did what he knew best.

Only in Allentown could you take what should be the feel-good story of the year, maybe one of the best stories we've ever had around here, and make a mockery of it.

If you watched "When the Garden Was Eden," the documentary that debuted this week in ESPN's excellent "30 for 30" series, you never saw Matt Zwetolitz on camera.

Mike Mittman says many people look at his relationship with former heavyweight champion of the world Larry Holmes in the same way that people used to look at Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali.

The road to respectability often comes with some potholes.