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ALLENTOWN — Speakers at a commercial real estate outlook Thursday dished around plenty of dirt, figuratively, about the Lehigh Valley landscape, and their news was mostly positive.But two presenters during a Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce event held at PPL Center in Allentown also cited...

UPPER MILFORD TOWNSHIP — Upper Milford Township has the lowest real estate tax rate and some of the best soils in Lehigh County.Officials want to know if residents are interested in ponying up to preserve agricultural and wooded land.The Board of Supervisors and Open Space Committee held a forum...

HOLLIDAYSBURG (AP) — A former student who says he was sexually abused at a Pennsylvania high school is testifying at a hearing for three Franciscan friars charged with allowing a suspected sexual predator to hold jobs where he molested more than 100 children. Thursday's hearing will determine whether...

Danielle Staub, who appeared on Bravo's "Real Housewives of New Jersey," will be in Bethlehem on April 23 and she'll have a camera crew with her. Staub is arguably one of the most recognizable, controversial and polarizing stars of the popular reality TV franchise. On the first season of the hit...

BETHLEHEM — Bethlehem police said a limo shuttling Diana Ross to a show Wednesday afternoon was involved in a two-vehicle crash in the city's South Side. The crash happened just before 5 p.m. in the 100 block of East Third Street, said Bethlehem police Chief Mark DiLuzio. He said the cause of the...

ALLENTOWN — For the past four years Joanne Young could look out of the window of her apartment at the Center Square senior apartments and see one of a half-dozen construction projects going on in downtown Allentown. Yet, despite all those dozens of businesses that arrived with that building, there...

The White House took a swing at Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey on Wednesday, naming him in arguing that Republicans should support hearings if they have concerns about how the president’s Supreme Court nominee would perform. The criticism came during White House press secretary Josh Earnest’s...

Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey raised almost $2.5 million so far this year and had nearly $9.2 million on hand heading into the final weeks of the primary, according to his campaign. The fundraising numbers, released to The Morning Call ahead of today's deadline for filing fundraising reports...

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP — Some old sycamores along Hamilton Boulevard will have to coexist with PennDOT-required deceleration lanes into a proposed commercial development featuring the Lehigh Valley's first Movie Tavern.Jaindl Land Co.'s Trexler Business Center was back before the Lower Macungie...

Hundreds of Verizon workers in the Lehigh Valley and Berks County have gone on strike, joining nearly 40,000 unionized employees who walked out Wednesday after the unions and communications company failed to reach an agreement. How does the Verizon strike affect you? Verizon said that wireline...