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Describing John P. Heaney III's performance in field sobriety tests after a fiery wreck in Bangor...
Palisades School District officials are set to vote on a preliminary 2013-14 budget this month...
The Easton Area School Board approved an updated map for its three school board regions Wednesday...
With little fanfare and only one amendment, Allentown City Council unanimously passed the city's...
Bethlehem City Council on Wednesday threw its support behind Mayor John Callahan's revenue...
Part of the way through the first year of Dr. Ronald Swinfard's tenure as Lehigh Valley Health...
If you've been following the continuing controversy revolving around what now is known as the...
A hearing for Penn State administrators charged with covering up Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse of...
HARRISBURG — Republican Bruce Castor, who opposed Tom Corbett when he was elected attorney...
The yearly migration of fall leaves from Bethlehem yards to curbs to the city's compost site might...
Salisbury Township Manager Randy Soriano's proposed no-tax-hike budget for 2013 seems in doubt.
A Northampton County judge refused Wednesday to reconsider the 5- to 10-year sentence he gave a...
Macungie Borough Council this week approved a preliminary $3.5 million budget for 2013 that...
A visit to the hospital can be unpleasant as it is. The last thing you want to see when walking...
The Wilson Area School Board this week approved a resolution on a narrow 5-4 vote that takes...
Parkland School District will save $1.2 million on repayment of a 2007 bond issue, thanks to a...
A proposed amendment briefly threatened to derail the passage of Allentown's 2013 budget Tuesday...
A tractor trailer overturned early Wednesday morning on Route 33 in Monroe County, spilling diesel...
A Bath man is charged with two counts of careless driving in a September crash in Lower Nazareth...
Police found open cans of beer rolling around the cab of an overturned North Bangor Fire Co. truck...
HARRISBURG — Former Penn State President Graham Spanier wants looser bail rules so he can...
For Kris Toomey, there is the harrowing reminder that the actions of the passengers and crew on...
It was just after the Nov. 6 general election and Mike Schlossberg was sitting in an orientation...
In my never-ending quest to bring you stories of nice people doing nice things — which I do as...
The Bethlehem Area School District will enter the 2013-14 budget season next month with a $23...
With the presidential election and Superstorm Sandy behind them, car shoppers headed for dealer lots...
Employers in Allentown's arena-financing Neighborhood Improvement Zone generated at least $15...
A road construction worker was injured Monday morning on Interstate 78 in Berks County when a...
Hellertown Borough is raising taxes five percent next year and cutting 2.5 jobs, including a full-...
A tractor-trailer and four other vehicles collided Tuesday night on Interstate 78 in Lower Saucon...
A child was shot Tuesday afternoon in Chestnuthill Township and sent to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar...
WASHINGTON — With the fiscal cliff looming, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is once again leading an...
Saucon Valley School District will require two fewer credits to graduate next year as part of a...
It's been nearly a year since Bucks County released about $332,000 in open space funding to help...
Senior Judge Isaac S. "Zeke" Garb, who presided over the Point Pleasant pumping station case in...
The young and pretty face smiling at us from Monday's and Tuesday's front pages will haunt many...
An Allentown pastor already charged with passing bad checks was charged with passing more bad ones,...
Here's to the Salvation Army bell, the omnipresent jingle outside malls and big box stores that reminds us of the persistence of human need in a...
With little fanfare and only one amendment, Allentown City Council unanimously passed the city's 2013 budget Wednesday without an increase in taxes.
When college students head out for a night of underage drinking, a potential run-in with police may be the last thing on their minds.
It was just after the Nov. 6 general election and Mike Schlossberg was sitting in an orientation session for incoming state lawmakers. His wife was...
Employers in Allentown's arena-financing Neighborhood Improvement Zone generated at least $15 million in state taxes in 2011 — a rough...
A proposed amendment briefly threatened to derail the passage of Allentown's 2013 budget Tuesday as City Council debated how much oversight the...
Erich May was a newspaper reporter in rural Cleafield County, a cabinet maker in the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and high school English teacher in...
Fearful that a wall of the Farr Lofts could crumble along with the remnants of a building removed to make room for a hockey arena, Allentown's arena...
In reality, ground was broken for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms' new hockey arena months ago.
For Ice River Springs Water Co., locating a new bottling and manufacturing plant in the Lehigh Valley makes its environmentally friendly product a...
An Allentown group hoping to put a question before voters about the sale and lease of city assets submitted more than 4,000 petition signatures to the...
Twice a day during rush hour, Allentown firetrucks camp out in the Wawa parking lot on Union Boulevard — and it's not for the coffee.
More than a dozen galleries in downtown Allentown opened their doors Sunday for the first Allentown Art Squawk.
More than a dozen galleries in downtown Allentown opened their doors Sunday for the first Allentown Art Squawk.
Looking for something to do with those Thanksgiving leftovers sitting in your refrigerator? Da Vinci Science Center has some ideas for you.
People from all different walks of life have stood before Lehigh County Judge Willam E. Ford over the past five years: Doctors accused of medical...
For safety reasons, Allentown is closing a block of Hamilton Street on Friday and Saturday as workers raze the First National Bank building.
Lehigh County hopes to take advantage of a new federal pilot program that lets local authorities collaborate with the IRS to catch thieves getting...
Visitors at the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum stepped back in time Saturday to learn about the kinds of toys that waited under Christmas trees for...
Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School has a new five-year charter.
In a city that has taken to calling itself Baseballtown, the sport is more than a pastime. It's become something of a lifeline.
Allentown's $272 million downtown revitalization project is still a work in progress, but it has created a rift between the city and the Allentown...
On June 2, 1959, Lehigh Valley philanthropists Donald and Samuel Miller pitched an idea to the fledgling Allentown Symphony Association that would...
It's not every day sixth-grader Joey Matos has to take public transportation from his east Allentown home to Harrison-Morton Middle School on the...
The same Allentown detours that routed traffic around the portion of Martin Luther King Drive where 15th Street crosses overhead...
The one-year delay in opening Allentown's hockey arena may come at a cost of as much as $2 million.
It didn't take long for spectators to clear the curbs and sidewalks of downtown Allentown Sunday, after watching the city's annual Halloween parade....
Since announcing a proposed 50-year lease of Allentown's water and sewer systems this summer, Mayor Ed Pawlowski has promised job security for...
The grandmother of an alleged Allentown gang member who was gunned down by one of his fellow members fell to a courtroom floor in distress Friday...
The traffic detour of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Allentown, mostly during nighttime hours and postponed from last week, has begun and will...
The wind had finally died down. The rain reduced to an intermittent drizzle. Across the Lehigh Valley, hundreds of thousands of residents awoke...
Sept. 13 was supposed to be a milestone day for Wade Haubert and his wife, Antoinette.
Vitalistic Therapeutic Charter School will close its doors in January, officials announced Sunday.
Pennsylvania remained in Hurricane Sandy's crosshairs Sunday, with forecasters predicting a one-two punch of wind and rain to start hitting the Lehigh...
With interest rates at a crazy low, Kris and Nicole Svensson didn't just go looking for a house in Pennsylvania when they sold their Virginia home.
The father and grandfather of a 4-month-old boy killed in the February 2011 natural gas explosion in Allentown have settled with UGI Corp.
The Allentown School Board rejected Vitalistic Therapeutic Charter School's request to move to a new site.
The Allentown School Board approved the final piece of Superintendent Russ Mayo's administration Thursday by hiring an $87,897 public relations...
In 2006, the Philadelphia-based Pennrose Properties razed the Allentown Housing Authority's Hanover Acres and Riverview Terrace developments with...
Bethlehem City Council on Wednesday threw its support behind Mayor John Callahan's revenue proposal that would flush as much $1 million into city's...
The yearly migration of fall leaves from Bethlehem yards to curbs to the city's compost site might be a service better handled by a private company or...
The Bethlehem Area School District will enter the 2013-14 budget season next month with a $23 million fund balance.
Juanya Spady might have survived after he collapsed in an English class at Liberty High School two years ago if teachers and nurses had worked to...
Some insult or slight inside a private Bethlehem club led to an argument early Sunday among "macho guys" who grabbed guns and headed outside to settle...
It's a river city with quaint Victorian architecture once known for its pioneering manufacturing processes that gave America the industrial might to...
Lots of people traveled for Thanksgiving this year.
The Bethlehem Zoning Hearing Board says developer Abe Atiyeh's beef with a zoning district that is allowing the construction of a Sheetz gas station...
Bethlehem Township's proposed 2013 budget does not include a tax hike even though it shows a slight increase in spending from this year and a...
Fire officials credited a Lehigh University student with rousing his roommates during a two-alarm fire early Tuesday in a south Bethlehem home.
Joseph Lewis was five months into his job as superintendent of the Bethlehem Area School District when he unveiled his plan to build a new Broughal...
Critics and supporters of Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan's trash proposal tried to drum up support Monday, the day before City Council delves into...
Mayor John Callahan wants to do next year what no mayor in Bethlehem has done before him — hire a single hauler to collect all the residential...
A Bethlehem man who admitted sexually assaulting two girls in Allentown more than a decade ago will spend 10 to 40 years in state prison.
Bethlehem zoners this week unanimously turned down developer Abraham Atiyeh's latest proposal for a drug rehabilitation center.
Bethlehem City Council started to tackle the 2013 budget on Monday, with discussion focusing on Mayor John Callahan's plan to seek $1 million in...
Three weeks after Hurricane Sandy knocked out power to much of the region, community leaders in Saucon Valley scrutinized their responses, pinpointing...
On the surface, Bethlehem has a gleaming entertainment district that draws millions to gamble, shop and rock out at concerts on the ruins of the...
What the professor said ate at longtime labor leader Jerry Green for a month.
The Bethlehem Redevelopment Authority approved this week a $10 million bond that will help pay for the next round of infrastructure projects for...
Eight years after he opened a chocolate shop in south Bethlehem, Brian Tallarico probably understands the parking crunch on E. Third Street better...
Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan's plan to tax tickets at concerts, sporting events and other performances has hit a sour note with Sands Bethlehem Event...
Fed up with what they perceive as a series of unfair laws targeting public school funding and testing, two local school boards are considering...
Setting the stage for what could be tough budget choices, Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan told business leaders Thursday that the city will face a $4....
Barely a month since they adopted it, Bethlehem Township commissioners want to tweak a zoning law governing where prisons can be built.
After-school tutoring is coming back to the Bethlehem Area School District.
Bethlehem police said a 62-year-old man who is lifetime registered sexual offender offered two girls money for sex while at a fast-food restaurant...
Developer Abe Atiyeh is appealing the latest court decision involving a denial for a psychiatric hospital he proposed in Bethlehem.
Anna Volino and her husband were closely monitoring Hurricane Sandy on Monday — and Anna's restless womb.
Thanks to her lawyer's missed deadlines, a Northampton County drunken-driving defendant may never get the chance to argue she was unfairly convicted...
Moravian College junior Caroline Clark looked down at the spread of apples on tables in the college's student center Wednesday and admittedly was a...
Six years after mobile home residents were suddenly evicted from a Bethlehem Township park, Gov. Tom Corbett this week signed a law that gives...
For the more than 100 people inside the Bethlehem Township meeting room Wednesday, it was to be a night of verbal fights with an outcome aimed at...
An Allentown man gets drunk at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, gets behind the wheel, and crashes on Interstate 78.
The City of Bethlehem has announced its leaf collection schedule for Fall 2012.
The Simon Silk Mill is a hulking ruin of Easton's former textile might.
The Easton Area School Board approved an updated map for its three school board regions Wednesday night in an effort to give residents more equal...
Once-a-year prices on art work can be found at the 15th annual Holiday Sale, 1-5 p.m. Dec. 5-6 and 12-13 and 1-6 p.m. Dec. 14.
The Wilson Area School Board this week approved a resolution on a narrow 5-4 vote that takes renovation of the former Dixie Cup factory one step...
Senior Judge Isaac S. "Zeke" Garb, who presided over the Point Pleasant pumping station case in the 1980s and, more recently, the case of Allentown...
Holiday Cash Mobs, led by the Easton Main Street Initiative, will leave from Centre Square at noon Dec. 8 and Dec. 14, heading toward an undisclosed...
The new Army Reserve Center in Forks Township will be officially named after Sgt. Ashly Lynn Moyer, an Emmaus High School graduate who was killed in...
The proposal to jump start fundraising in the Easton Area School District sounds simple enough.
The Third Street Alliance for Women and Children will host its 17th annual Bistro, the organization's fundraising gala, 5-8 p.m. Feb. 10.
Arlina DeNardo, director of the Lafayette College Financial Aid Office, will be the guest speaker at Wilson Area High School's Financial Aid Night, 6:...
If you're looking to open a tattoo parlor in Easton, it'll cost you double next year.
Got something to say about the proposed rehab of the Easton-Phillpsburg toll bridge? Well, you have a little more time to say it.
The Easton Area Middle School is hosting a Book Fair, Dec. 3-7 in the school's library.
There's a large selection of Christmas trees for sale at the Pennsylvania Water Rescue Christmas Tree Fundraiser Sale, 5-9 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and 9 a.m.-9...
I don't understand the uproar over some retailers opening late on Thanksgiving and the outrage toward employers calling people into work after their...
A clutch of birds huddled Wednesday afternoon atop the dingy white truss of the Easton-Phillipsburg Route 22 toll bridge. Over the next two years, the...
Easton Area Education Association (EAEA) will sponsor the 2nd annual Luminary Night throughout the City of Easton, Dec. 16. Streets in and around...
With a no-tax-increase budget already on the table, Northampton County Council on Tuesday began a dispassionate conversation on proposed amendments to...
The number of elementary school classes in the Easton Area School District with 25 or more students has more than tripled since the end of last school...
An application for the proposed academy of entrepreneurship charter school in West Easton has been submitted to the Wilson Area School District and...
Students at Easton Area School District's Tracy Elementary School who missed having their pictures taken on Oct. 16 or who want to have their...
Parking meter rates may double next year in Easton as City Council ironed out the final changes to the city's 2013 budget.
Notre Dame High School released their Honor Roll lists for the First Quarter of the 2012-2013 school year.
The Mary Meuser Memorial Library wants parents to know that children's kits are available for checkout.
Wilson Borough has placed on its website information on how residents of the borough can contribute to improving storm water management in their...
The Mary Meuser Memorial Library is offering "Tales for Tots," weekly story times for toddlers, 10:30 a.m. Thurs. and Fri.
Snow has started falling this morning in parts of the Lehigh Valley.
For Wilson Area School District parents who are unsure of what their sons or daughters may wear to school, the district has posted a "Looking Cool for...
Residents of Williams Township can visit the township's website to view the 2013 budget.
At the Wilson Area School Board's most recent meeting, board members learned of the extent of damage to district facilities in the wake of Hurricane...
Easton police continued their investigation Saturday into the shooting death of a local disc jockey, searching for two people and a minivan they...
For a third time, the Wilson Area School Board chose not to vote on a measure that would provide tax breaks to a company that wants to redevelop the...
After more than 20 years of standing outdoors from Thanksgiving through the new year, you might need a little cosmetic help yourself.
The Career Institute of Technology in Forks Township will auction off a student-built, three-bedroom ranch home at 5 p.m. Dec. 3. The house is located...
The Friends of Camp Geiger, will hold a 'Campfire and Hearthside: A Civil War Christmas' performance 2 p.m. Dec. 1 at the Sigal Museum, 342...
Forks Township is notifying residents that, when it snows, crews will start plowing as the accumulation reaches two inches.
Wilson Area Intermediate School released their Honor Roll lists for Marking Period 1, Nov. 2012.
The Forks Historical Society will open its historic Log Cabin, 6-8 p.m. Dec. 2, next to the Community Center, 500 Zucksville Road, as part of the...
The Easton Area School District Swimming & Diving Club is holding its first reunion, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 23, outside the high school pool...