Your View: It’s time to reexamine Lehigh County’s criminal justice spending
Op-ed: With so many people in need, how can we justify increases to a bloated “criminal justice complex” budget?
View ArticleComedian Sarah Cooper hopes Trump gets fired, even if it means the end of her...
The 42-year-old New York comedian's viral videos, set to the soundtrack of the president’s own (gibberish) words, have become ubiquitous during the pandemic.
View ArticleSusan Wild, Lisa Scheller debate Israel, anti-Semitism and foreign policy at...
The Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley on Tuesday hosted a debate between PA-7 candidates Susan Wild and Lisa Scheller. Theirs is the first-ever congressional contest to feature two Jewish women.
View ArticleQ&A: Meet the candidates who will square off in 137th Pa. House race
Democrat Kate Brennan is challenging Republican state Rep. Joe Emrick for Pennsylvania's 137th state House district seat, which includes upper Northampton County.
View ArticleQ&A: Meet the candidates who will square off in 132nd Pa. House race
Democratic Rep. Mike Schlossberg faces Republican challenger Michael McCreary for Pennsylvania's 137th state House district seat, which includes West Allentown and South Whitehall Township.
View ArticleWant to stop the coronavirus? Cooperate with contact tracers
Column: If you get the coronavirus, please cooperate with contact tracers. You could prevent others from getting sick.
View ArticleQ&A: Meet the candidates who will square off in the 135th Pa. House race
Incumbent Steve Samuelson, Democrat who has represented the 135 District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 1999, will square off against Republican Scott Hough, a private security...
View ArticleWith lawsuits, mail-in ballots and partisan politics, Pennsylvania becomes a...
State and local election officials say they are doing all they can to make sure Pennsylvania doesn’t end up like Florida two decades ago, when the last drawn-out presidential tally ended before the...
View ArticleReaders React: Southern Lehigh library funding is in jeopardy
Reader: Lower Milford supervisors have indicated they may withhold funding for the Southern Lehigh Public Library for next year.
View ArticleWith Pennsylvania barring funeral homes from serving refreshments, Hellertown...
The Hellertown-Lower Saucon Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday will host grand opening ceremonies for Carriage House at Heintzelmans, a private event center designed for after-funeral gatherings; and...
View ArticlePennsylvania county says 29,000 wrong ballots were mailed out
Elections officials in Pennsylvania's second-most populous county say that nearly 29,000 voters were mailed ballots with the wrong contests on them, and that those voters will receive corrected ballots...
View ArticleDistrict attorney says police justified in fatal shooting of knife-wielding...
A county prosecutor says a Pennsylvania police officer was justified in shooting to death a man who wielded a knife last month after his sister called 911 for help
View ArticleTalking Business with Tina Hamilton: Top 10 ways to deal with workplace...
Amid all of the chaos with COVID-19, elections, remote schooling, masks, racial inequity, empty sports stadiums, and anything else I missed, it is no wonder that most of us (and likely all of us) are...
View ArticleThe Great American Beer Festival begins this weekend. Here’s what you need to...
This year’s Great American Beer Festival and competition will go virtual. Originally scheduled for Sept. 24-26 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, the event will pivot to an immersive online...
View Article84-year-old man accused of luring child in Allentown
Allentown police say the man was trying to lure children into his home on West Chew Street in June.
View ArticleTrio of men steal three handguns during robbery, assault in Bethlehem...
The three men are in Northampton County Jail under $250,000 bail each.
View ArticleLehigh Valley residents ask, why did the mail come so late or not at all?
Lehigh Valley residents complained about the mail arriving late on Tuesday. A postal workers union official said that's not unusual the day after a holiday, but other factors made it worse.
View ArticleUpdate: New COVID cases at Gracedale, Cedarbrook force nursing homes to close...
Update: Lehigh County’s two Cedarbrook nursing facilities have joined Northampton County's Gracedale in closing to visitors after new cases of COVID-19 have been identified.
View ArticleCACLV leader Alan Jennings to step down amid battle with Parkinson’s,...
Alan Jennings, the firebrand executive director and community advocate who built a struggling nonprofit into a $30 million organization over his 40 years, on Wednesday announced he will step down from...
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