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– Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey will meet with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Pennsylvania senator's office.Toomey has opposed considering a nominee to replace late Justice Antonin Scalia until after the presidential election, but announced last...

LYNN TOWNSHIP — After more than a year of negotiations, the Northwestern Lehigh School District has reached an agreement with educators that includes pay raises for staff, but would eliminate the most expensive of health care plans offered.The Northwestern Lehigh Education Association, without...

BETHLEHEM — Moravian College will break ground on a new building that will enhance students' education and honor an alumna who was "unabashedly passionate" about the Bethlehem school.The college will have a ground-breaking ceremony next month for the Sally Breidegam Miksiewicz Center for Health...

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP — Heel, Sparky: your canine promised land at Camp Olympic has come to the attention of environmental regulators.Lower Macungie Township had planned on converting two acres of existing cornfield into a grassy lawn this spring, with hopes of opening the first township dog...

BETHLEHEM — The Comfort Suites hotel in south Bethlehem wants financial compensation from the city because of parking-related losses it will incur if the Bethlehem Parking Authority proceeds with its plan to build a $17.5 million high-rise parking deck on S. New Street.Specifically, the hotel wants...

ALLENTOWN — In a sentence that drew gasps from child abuse experts in the courtroom, a Slatington stepmother accused of "torturing" her 5-year-old stepson was sentenced Friday to one to two years in the Lehigh County Jail. Shaquila Byrd, 35, may apply for work release and can get up to 72 days...

With an anti-discrimination bill held up in the Legislature, Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday signed two executive orders that would protect some public employees and some government contractors from bigotry based on “sexual orientation, gender expression or identity.” Both executive orders are meant...

WASHINGTON – With fewer than three weeks until the April 26 primary election, a new poll shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump maintaining a modest lead over his two opponents among Pennsylvania's likely Republican voters. The New York real estate developer drew support from 35 percent,...

The title of the papal exhortation Amoris Laetitia translates to "The Joy of Love," though traditionalist Catholics on social media had been calling the document on family life "The Joy of Sex" in the run-up to its Friday release.Among their concerns was that the long-anticipated document would...

SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania set up a fake drunken-driving checkpoint only to be charged with drunken driving himself when real troopers arrived to investigate. The (Somerset) Daily American (http://bit.ly/1S1iydK ) says 20-year-old Logan Shaulis will be sentenced June 27. He pleaded...