Bethlehem YWCA closes adult day care during coronavirus surge
With the coronavirus surging across the Lehigh Valley and the state, the Bethlehem YWCA has temporarily closed its adult day services center.
View ArticleSlatington man wanted after driving car toward Lehigh Township police officers
The 33-year-old man, who has multiple warrants for his arrest dating back to the summer, told township police that he was not going back to jail. Police say he should be considered dangerous.
View ArticlePandemic, partisan attacks exposed gaps in Pa.’s new mail-in voting law
While many lawmakers agree changes are needed, finding common ground in the current hyper-partisan climate might be impossible.
View ArticleCheers! Or not: ‘Scandalous’ 1st Christmas card up for sale
The first commercially printed Christmas card is up for sale — a merry Victorian-era scene that scandalized some who denounced it as humbug when it first appeared in 1843.
View ArticleFormer DeSales University priest indicted on child porn charges, allegedly...
A former DeSales University priest who has ties to European royalty was indicted Thursday on charges of collecting child pornography, including photos of what federal prosecutors described as “the...
View ArticleChristmas season is crucial to Bethlehem, which is asking tourists to please...
Christmas in Bethlehem, the Christmas City, is on with all the traditional festivities and a few new ones, though, business owners are worried about what they can salvage from the crucial season as the...
View ArticlePuppy stolen from pet store in Palmer Park Mall, police say
Palmer Township police are investigating a November theft of a French bulldog puppy from a pet store that was hit with similar crime nearly a year ago.
View ArticleAllentown authority relieved to turn page on challenge of NIZ’s...
Leaders of the authority overseeing Allentown’s one-of-a-kind Neighborhood Improvement Zone on Wednesday celebrated the end of a five-year legal battle questioning the constitutionality of the...
View ArticleLehigh Valley Christmas tree lighting ceremonies guide: Here’s where, when...
These Lehigh Valley communities will soon be switching on their holiday displays. Here’s a guide to how to watch as the lights go on.
View ArticleDid Bethlehem Steel make beams for the iconic Chrysler Building in New York...
Bethlehem Steel has been credited with providing the steel that built the Chrysler building. Despite that information coming from many reputable sources, including people affiliated with the company,...
View ArticlePhillips Armstrong kicks off campaign for second term as Lehigh County executive
Lehigh County Executive Phillips Armstrong announced he will seek a second term in office, saying he will look to help the local economy improve from the COVID-19 pandemic.
View ArticleExplainer: Donald Trump’s failing, monthlong fight against the election
President Donald Trump’s frantic effort in the courts to delegitimize an election he lost has come no closer in a month to reversing any results, including in Pennsylvania.
View ArticleCoast Guard searching for man missing from capsized boat off New Jersey coast
The Coast Guard is searching the waters off Cape May, New Jersey for a man who is missing from a capsized boat
View ArticleYour View by Lehigh professor: Why national debt and budget deficits still...
Op-ed: The country needs serious progress on important issues such as the deficit, and that can happen only with true bipartisan compromise.
View ArticleCould this Pennsylvania veteran’s death from coronavirus have been prevented?
Column: Army veteran Ed Horowitz deserved better protection from the coronavirus than he got at the state-run veterans home where he lived.
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court again asked to block Biden win in Pennsylvania
Fresh off another rejection in Pennsylvania’s courts, Republicans on Thursday again asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state, while the...
View ArticleDespite string of local losses, Lehigh Valley Republicans intend to stick...
President Donald Trump may have lost his election, but Lehigh Valley Republicans aren't backing away from his vision of the party.
View ArticleEmmaus woman killed in wreck, authorities report
The Thursday afternoon crash happened at Lehigh and Wyoming streets in Allentown.
View ArticleYour View: Leftist ideology puts our democracy in great peril
Your View: American democracy is now in greater peril from Democrats’s leftist ideology and unelected federal judges and government agency rule-makers.
View ArticlePa. hospitals on the brink of a staffing crisis as COVID-19 surges
At least a third of the hospitals in the southwest and south-central part of the state expect shortages in the next week, state data shows. Some rural facilities are already in crisis.
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