Here’s the scoop: Allentown’s Batch Microcreamery opening second area...
Batch Microcreamery, which opened last September at the Downtown Allentown Market, will open a second location later this summer at the upcoming Trolley Barn Public Market in Quakertown.
View ArticleHard-up for money, Pennsylvania again tries selling mini-casino licenses that...
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board scheduled a mini-casino license auction after budget legislation that passed in May required another auction.
View ArticleLawmakers will rule again over redrawing of Pa. political boundaries, but...
While an effort to create an independent commission to draw the state’s congressional and legislative maps has run out of time, a new bill would increase transparency and ban the most egregious practices.
View ArticleYou can serve life in prison for murder without killing anyone. Six inmates...
Nearly 1,100 of the close to 5,200 people serving defacto life without parole sentences in Pennsylvania did not kill or intend to kill someone, the lawyers said.
View ArticleSusan Wild says she raised $875k last quarter for her congressional...
Democratic U.S. Rep. Susan Wild raised nearly $875,000 during the last three months and had more than $2 million in her re-election account at the end of June, her campaign announced Wednesday.
View ArticlePhiladelphia waives more than 750 citations handed out during Black Lives...
The majority of code citations were for violations of the curfew and for disorderly conduct such as failing to disperse. Curfew tickets carry a $25 fine and failure to disperse carries a $50 fine.
View ArticleRepublicans move to block Gov. Wolf’s attempt to ‘tax’ power plant emissions
Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled House of Representatives wants to ensure that it can block Gov. Tom Wolf's effort to impose a price on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants as part of a...
View ArticleFacing trial: Pa. woman accused of keeping grandmother’s remains in freezer...
A Pennsylvania woman is heading to trial on charges that she hid kept maternal grandmother's remains in a freezer for a decade and a half and continued to receive the dead woman's Social Security...
View ArticlePa. health officials holding off on new coronavirus restrictions — for now —...
With the number of coronavirus cases continuing to rise in western Pennsylvania, authorities there have braced for the possibility that Pennsylvania health officials will reimpose pandemic restrictions.
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter movement prods Bethlehem and other districts to review how...
Schools do not honestly and accurately teach the struggles and history of African Americans, Bethlehem Area School District Superintendent Joseph Roy acknowledged. That’s why he is proposing that the...
View ArticleJoe Biden proposes $700 billion-plus ‘Buy American’ campaign; will discuss...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is proposing sweeping new uses of the federal government’s regulatory and spending power to bolster U.S. manufacturing and technology firms
View ArticleTalking Business with Don Cunningham: Building the next great generation
The lives of Generation Z have been upended, affected more in the short term — and the long — than anyone who survives the virus.
View Article‘Defund the police’? Readers debate police reform proposal
We asked readers: Do you support a call to “defund the police”?
View ArticleYour View by Newt Gingrich: Pennsylvania politicians need to forget about...
Op-ed: The radical campaign to defund and weaken local police departments is gaining steam in Pennsylvania — and that’s a worrying sign for anyone who cares about the future of the Keystone State.
View ArticlePrime your sump pumps: A tropical system is set to crawl up the coast,...
A tropical system - likely to become Tropical Storm Fay - continues to strengthen as it heads up the coast, meteorologists say. It could make for a very wet Friday in the Lehigh Valley and the rest of...
View ArticleMan assaulted, robbed after helping Allentown police control unruly crowd,...
A 56-year-old Easton man has been charged with instigating the robbery and assault on June 25. He told police it was in retaliation for the victim's decision to help police.
View ArticleBethlehem’s Matthew Vital, 14, ready to take on state’s top men’s players in...
Pennsylvania Amateur golf: Bethlehem’s Matthew Vital, 14, ready to take on state’s best men’s golfers after making birdie on the final hole of his qualifying tournament.
View ArticleNew cafe brings coffee, paninis, salads and more back to former Cafe Vida...
La Vida Cafe, serving coffee, paninis, salads and more, opened June 15 at 19 N. Sixth St., on the ground floor of the Americus Hotel. The space previously housed the Life Church-run Cafe Vida, which...
View ArticleEaston lifts restrictions in zoning law, pleasing developers but troubling...
The ordinance doubles the allowed building footprint and removes “context-sensitive design standards.”
View ArticleSupreme Court rules on Trump’s taxes, granting access to Manhattan...
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a prosecutor’s demand for President Donald Trump’s tax returns as part of a criminal investigation, but denied access to Congress, for now.
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