Allentown officials debate how much power to give citizen body focused on...
Allentown City Council is poised to create a citizen body to keep tabs on its police department, but it remains unclear whether elected officials will — or even can — give it any teeth.
View ArticleTrump, Biden will both mark 9/11 anniversary in Shanksville
Both President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in rural Pennsylvania where one of the hijacked planes crashed in a field
View ArticleVideo in Black man’s suffocation shows Rochester cops put hood on him
A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for...
View ArticleYour View by controller: How Lehigh County’s proposed budget promotes...
Op-ed: I was disappointed to see the new budget proposed by the Lehigh County executive. The budget continues to promote systemic racism.
View ArticleEvictions are still looming. Here’s what Pennsylvania can do about it.
Column: The new national ban on rental evictions took some of the pressure off Pennsylvania officials — but I hope they don’t think they’re off the hook.
View ArticleAfter 27 years of play and fun, Quakertown’s Panther Playground says goodbye
Quakertown's Panther Playground will close Thursday and be dismantled after 27 years of play.
View ArticleSecond brother pleads guilty in Allentown melee that left one dead, one...
An Allentown man who joined his brother in firing into a crowd during a fracas near an Allentown church last summer that left a woman dead and her boyfriend seriously injured, pleaded guilty Thursday...
View ArticlePennsylvania lawmakers quickly advance bill to let school districts, not Gov....
More than two-thirds of lawmakers in the state House late Wednesday approved a bill that gives school districts extensive authority on running interscholastic sports contests during the coronavirus...
View Article‘Where I belong’: Easton native, whose family has run Giacomo’s on College...
Mario’s Italian Eatery, a deli, grocery store and eatery offering made-on-site items such as pastas, sausages and tomato sauce along with Italian-imported specialties such as artisan cheeses, olive...
View ArticleBethlehem police chief called out for reposting meme mocking athletes...
A Bethlehem resident called out city police chief Mark DiLuzio for reposting a meme that mocks professional athletes protesting police violence against African-Americans.
View ArticlePolice: More than half of 252 people arrested since Jacob Blake shooting are...
More than 250 people have been arrested since the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, with more than half of those from outside the county.
View ArticleLehigh County under tornado watch: Damaging wind gusts, hail possible as...
Damaging gusts and a few tornadoes should be the main threats with today's thunderstorms over portions of the Mid-Atlantic region. Main hazards in the Lehigh Valley
View ArticleFans at high school football games? Probably not, say Lehigh Valley...
Lehigh Valley school superintendents called the new 250-person cap at outdoor school sports events unrealistic for allowing spectators, at least for football games.
View ArticleFederal agents search Pennsylvania nursing home with many coronavirus deaths
Federal agents searched a nursing home near Pittsburgh that had the worst coronavirus outbreak of any in Pennsylvania and was already being investigated by the state on suspicion of criminal neglect
View ArticleAllentown man’s next of kin sought
The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office is seeking the next of kin of an Allentown man pronounced dead Thursday at his home.
View ArticlePennsylvania coronavirus update: 1,160 new cases reported Thursday; largest...
The state Department of Health reported 1,160 more cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, the largest one-day increase in the state’s virus case-count since July 24.
View ArticleSpike in student coronavirus cases prompts Temple University to move classes...
Temple University announced Thursday that the majority of classes will shift online through the end of the fall semester amid rising numbers of coronavirus cases among students.
View ArticleAllentown church seeking donations to repair vandalized Virgin Mary statue
A Roman Catholic church in Allentown is seeking community donations to repair its Virgin Mary statue, which someone tried to behead.
View ArticleNew shopping center coming to Lower Macungie’s Hamilton Boulevard
The 2.3-acre property near Hamilton Crossings, called Shepherd’s Corner, will have a 9,600-square-foot strip center and a separate 3,000-square-foot credit union.
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