Pennsylvania’s top election official pleads for patience, says expect later...
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar is urging patience from voters, saying Tuesday's primary won't "look or feel like it does in non-pandemic times, and the results may take longer."
View ArticleAllentown reopening dog park, tennis courts, other amenities Friday;...
Allentown will reopen some park amenities but continue restricting others Friday when Gov. Tom Wolf lifts Lehigh County’s stay-at-home order and moves it to the “yellow” phase of reopening.
View ArticleLehigh Valley NAACP branches to hold vigil for George Floyd
Local NAACP branches will hold a vigil for George Floyd, the Minneapolis man who died after being pinned for more than eight minutes with a white officer’s knee on his neck.
View ArticleEaston’s Heritage Day is canceled but virtual events are planned
Because of the coronavirus, Heritage Day, the annual downtown event that draws thousands for a day of historic reenactments capped off by a night of fireworks, has been canceled, city officials...
View ArticleWoman pleads guilty to fatally hitting man with her car on dark South...
Sahar Atiyeh was charged in August, following a lengthy investigation that included a visibility study, in which police officers recreated the circumstances of the 2018 crash at various speeds and...
View ArticleLehigh University, facing $40 million deficit, latest college to announce...
Lehigh University is the latest area college to announce it is furloughing workers and senior leadership will take pay cuts to defray a budget deficit because of the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleOperation BBQ Relief to distribute meals to Allentown families in need at...
Families who are identified by the Allentown School District as in need can pick up meals from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at Harrison-Morton at 137 N 2nd St.
View ArticlePennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf extends deadline for counting primary ballots...
Pennsylvania voters will have an additional week to return their mail ballots, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday afternoon, the eve of the state’s primary election.
View ArticleJoe Biden looks to clinch nomination as 7 states, DC vote
Joe Biden is hoping to seize the delegates needed to formally clinch the Democrats’ presidential nomination as seven states and one territory vote
View ArticleReady to dine outdoors again? Here are more than 125 Lehigh Valley...
In a significant loosening of COVID-19-related business restrictions, Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday announced that restaurants in yellow-phase Pennsylvania counties can resume outdoor dining, with...
View ArticleNext up for City Center: office building, more apartments on 900 block of...
The development company transforming downtown Allentown continues to press forward despite the coronavirus pandemic and related economic crisis.City Center Investment Corp. on Monday unveiled two more...
View ArticleFrom confusion to threats, some Pa. nursing home residents aren’t getting...
The reasons vary from apparent misunderstandings to facilities wrongly holding onto the $1,200 or, in one extreme case, threatening to evict residents unless they turned over the funds.
View ArticleLehigh Valley breweries set to reopen outdoors Friday on yellow phase. Here’s...
With outdoor beer service resuming Friday, June 5, how are local brewpubs set up to serve you?
View ArticlePennsylvania primary election: The polls are open for an election like no other
Polls opened this morning for the pandemic-delayed primary election in which results are expected to take longer than normal because of what will be an extensive number of mail-in ballots.
View ArticleShredded your stimulus debit card? Here’s what to do
Column: Here's how to get a replacement if you shredded or tossed your prepaid stimulus card.
View ArticleBethlehem businesses prepare for outdoor dining and sales on Friday with...
As the Lehigh Valley prepares to move from the red to the yellow phase of reopening this Friday, Betlehem Mayor Robert Donchez announced details of a citywide plan that includes closing public streets,...
View ArticlePhiladelphia gun shop owner shoots, kills man who breaks into store,...
A Philadelphia gun shop owner shot and killed a man who the owner said was among a group that had broken into the store
View ArticleLIVE: Pa. primary election night updates in the Lehigh Valley
Follow the latest updates on the Pa. primary election results from around the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania.
View ArticleHistorically Speaking: When politics becomes a blood sport
Op-ed: With gyms closed, social media has become more of a boxing ring than normal, and that certainly is the case for what one of your northern neighbors did last month.
View ArticleEaston man causing disturbance at Wawa kicks officers during arrest, police say
A man banned from an Easton Wawa was arrested Sunday after police say he climbed behind the store’s counter and then kicked officers who came to remove him from the store.
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