22nd District update: Schweyer declares victory; Santiago alleges voter...
Three-term incumbent Peter Schweyer on Friday night declared victory over challenger Enid Santiago in the Democratic primary for the state House’s 22nd District seat. Santiago refused to concede after...
View ArticlePlans for Bethlehem Township office park with hotel and restaurant are scaled...
Plans for a $250 million office park in Bethlehem Township featuring a office space spread over eight buildings, a four-story hotel, restaurant and parking for nearly 4,000 cars have been scaled down...
View ArticlePolice: Easton woman charged with stealing more than $23,000 from two...
An Easton woman is accused of stealing more than $23,000 from two residents at the Emmaus senior living facility where she worked, police say.
View ArticleAfter 23 years on death row, Philly man’s murder conviction overturned
A judge overturned Walter Ogrod’s conviction months after prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed it was tainted by critical flaws, including key evidence withheld by police and the prosecutors...
View ArticleThere will be more George Floyd killings until officers are willing to...
Column: Watch the video of George Floyd’s death again. Watch what the officer standing next to officer Derek Chauvin does, as Floyd says he can’t breathe. Nothing.
View ArticleRetail Watch: Get a taste of the Mediterranean at new Milan Bistro in Bethlehem
Milan Bistro, specializing in Mediterranean dishes such as falafel, hummus and beef kofta kabobs, opened May 1 at 554 N. New St. in downtown Bethlehem.
View ArticlePandemic, civil unrest and economic free fall: Is 2020 our darkest hour?
Many observers have compared 2020 to the calamitous months of 1968, when assassins took Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, scores of American soldiers died every day in Vietnam and cities were...
View ArticleCoronavirus in Pennsylvania: 5 takeaways from the week
To keep you up-to-speed on the most important coronavirus news in Pennsylvania that you might have missed, here are 5 takeaways from the past week.
View ArticleLehigh Valley breweries now open outdoors on yellow phase. Here’s what you...
With outdoor beer service resuming Friday, June 5, how are local brewpubs set up to serve you?
View ArticleGunfire exchanged by two shooters leaves several vehicles damaged in Easton,...
Easton police are investigating after several vehicles and a fence were struck by gunfire Friday night in the area of South 14th and Washington streets.
View ArticleSlatington woman charged with aggravated assault after pointing shotgun at...
Multiple police departments cordoned off the 100 block of 5th street in Slatington for about three hours Friday night when a woman refused to come out of her home, where she had retreated after...
View ArticleYour View: This is no time to be selfish in name of freedom
Op-ed: The basic principle is that you only have a right if exercising that right does not cause harm to someone else.
View ArticlePennsylvania coronavirus update: cases reach 75,000 Saturday
Pennsylvania's coronavirus case counts surpassed 75,000 on Saturday, as the state sees the numbers ebbing. With the flattening of the curve, Pennsylvania is gradually opening up, with half the...
View ArticleThousands, including the mayor, join Philadelphia march protesting the death...
Protesting the death of George Floyd, thousands of people, including Mayor Jim Kenney, demonstrated peacefully in Philadelphia Saturday afternoon.
View ArticleSomber Bethlehem vigil, energetic Allentown youth march, calls for change...
As mourners gathered in George Floyd’s North Carolina hometown for his funeral Saturday, demonstrators marched in Allentown and prayed in Bethlehem, demanding that the 46-year-old black man’s death at...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Inquirer editor resigns over ‘Buildings Matter’ headline
Philadelphia Inquirer top editor Stan Wischnowski is resigning after an uproar over a headline lamenting damage to businesses amid turbulent protests denouncing police brutality against people of color.
View ArticleSo how dangerous are tear gas, rubber bullets and other tactics being used on...
Tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper spray, sponge guns and other crowd control tactics have been known to cause serious injuries and even death. Though the weapons are considered nonlethal, doctors say...
View ArticleYour View by Bethlehem Interfaith Group: We raise our voices in support of...
Op-ed: We raise our voices in support of and solidarity with those who are peacefully demonstrating for racial justice and commit ourselves to being partners and allies for systemic change.
View ArticleIn wake of large peaceful rallies in Lehigh Valley, community leaders see...
The success of the Lehigh Valley’s week of rallies, community leaders say, is largely due to partnerships formed between police, city and rally organizers, and in Allentown, to a first-year police...
View ArticleYour View by Lehigh professor: Why it’s good the Electoral College is...
Op-ed: The Electoral College is an undemocratic institution crafted to preserve the division of political power among the national government, the states and the people to prevent the tyranny of the...
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