372,000 rejected mail ballot requests in Pennsylvania? Why that’s good news
Column: A headline about 372,000 requests for mail ballots being rejected seems alarming. It’s actually reassuring, because it shows Pennsylvania’s voting system is working as intended.
View ArticleReaders React: This is our spiritual wake-up call
Reader: The government can’t save us; neither can science. But for those who love the Lord, there’s a greater hope.
View ArticleReaders React: The majority of Democrats are moderates
Reader: I want to remind a letter writer that we Democrats are not all liberal, socialist anti-Americans. The majority of us are moderates able to discuss both sides.
View ArticleMore than a million mail-in votes already cast in New Jersey
More than 1 million people have cast ballots already in New Jersey, or about 30% of the turnout in the 2016 presidential.
View ArticleJudge rejects Republican challenge of pop-up voting center outside Philly
An appellate court judge in Pennsylvania has turned down an emergency petition from Republicans seeking to block Delaware County from operating a three-day early voting center in the city of Chester.
View ArticleCockatoo valued at $3,200 stolen from Quakertown pet shop
Richland Township Police Department on Oct. 4 responded to Fins, Feathers, Paws & Claws, inside the Quakertown Farmers Market, for the report of a retail theft of a sulfur-crested cockatoo, valued...
View ArticleYour View: Be prepared for Pennsylvania election results to change as mail-in...
Op-ed: President Trump may declare victory after the first day’s result in Pennsylvania. Why you should not believe it.
View ArticlePile of live eels dumped in Brooklyn park could disturb ecosystem
The illegal release recently of live eels in a New York City park became a curiosity, but the dumping of exotic animals in urban parks isn’t new and has disturbed, local ecosystems.
View ArticleReaders React: Senate should delay Supreme Court justice vote
Reader: As a Pennsylvanian Republican, I am shocked at the current Senate proceedings. We must wait until after the election to consider Supreme Court justice nominations.
View ArticleMeet the Forks Township poll worker featured in new campaign to ease voting...
Forks Township Elections Judge Susan Glovas is featured in a VoteSafe Pennsylvania TV ad being shown statewide to assure residents the voting process is safe.
View Article‘There’s a lemur!’ 5-year-old boy cracks San Francisco Zoo theft case
A 5-year-old boy who helped officials recapture a lemur stolen from the San Francisco Zoo, has been rewarded with a lifetime zoo membership.
View ArticlePence tells Reading crowd the path to victory ‘runs through Pennsylvania’
Vice President Mike Pence returned to the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania on Saturday, declaring President Donald Trump a champion of the “forgotten men and women of America” and blasting...
View ArticleMultiple crashes, Allentown police investigation jam traffic Saturday afternoon
The Lehigh Valley’s major arteries are jammed Saturday afternoon following multiple crashes and an Allentown police investigation on the Hamilton Street Bridge.
View ArticlePennsylvania coronavirus update: Second highest case count of the pandemic...
Saturday’s coronavirus case count was the second highest total in Pennsylvania since the start of the pandemic, with 1,857 new cases reported by the state Department of Health.
View ArticlePhiladelphia, where ‘bad things happen,’ looms large for Trump
When President Donald Trump told the world that “bad things happen in Philadelphia,” it was, in part, a blunt assessment of his party’s struggles in a city that routinely anchors Democratic victories...
View ArticleBethlehem’s ‘jewel of a golf course’ is drawing record numbers amid...
Bethlehem Golf Club, the city's municipal golf course, is being renovated into what one official calls a "jewel," drawing record numbers as golfers spend more time on the activity during the...
View ArticleRestaurant chain, offering cajun seafood and ‘Southern charm,’ opening first...
Crab Du Jour, offering cajun seafood and “Southern charm,” is expected to open its first Lehigh Valley location within the next few months at 1053 Grape St. in Whitehall Township.
View ArticleJeweler moving store from Promenade Shops to Lehigh Valley Mall
Murphy Jewelers, founded in 1913 in downtown Pottsville, on Sept. 8 plans to open its newest retail location at the Lehigh Valley Mall’s outdoor lifestyle center in Whitehall Township. The new store,...
View ArticleIndoor adventure park, with go-karts, trampolines, climbing walls and more,...
An indoor adventure park – featuring go-karts, trampolines, climbing walls and more – is nearing completion in Lehigh County.
View ArticleYour View: How we plan to turn Lehigh Valley’s Latino community into a...
Op-ed: We created a Lehigh Valley PAC because the needs and interests of the Latino community are not being adequately addressed and served by many current elected officials.
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