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BETHLEHEM – Greeted by trombones humming the "Moravian Birthday Hymn," people began pouring into the Moravian Archives Saturday morning for a rare glimpse of the city's founding document. Taken out of the vault for one day exactly 275 years after it was signed, the 1741 deed shows the original...

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a portion of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan has reopened after being evacuated for about 45 minutes Saturday following a report of a suspicious package.Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police spokesman Joe Pentangelo said the package was cleared...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Lindy Li has withdrawn from the race to represent a southeastern Pennsylvania congressional district. The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/21ZJiOx) reports that Li's decision leaves Malvern businessman Mike Parrish as the only Democratic candidate in the 6th District...

Jim Morgans resigned as Parkland High School's football coach on Tuesday, ending, at least for the moment, a remarkable coaching career that covered more than 40 years in total, 32 seasons as a head coach. He began his head coaching career at Central Catholic in 1976 and had two stints with the...

BETHLEHEM — The Valastro family gathered around a giant cake in the shape of what can only be described as Bethlehem's iconic blast furnaces made from baking pans and other pastry equipment. Fans of the popular TLC show "Cake Boss" know that Buddy Valastro is known exactly for this type of amazing...

The Seed Farm in Emmaus is offering training sessions for people planning to make the leap from vegetable gardening to production for profit. These classes are for beginning organic vegetable producers who are ready to refine their techniques for production and profit. Classes include presentations...

Judith's Reading Room recently announced that two of its 2016 Freedom through Literacy Award winners hail from the Lehigh Valley. Grand Prize winner, Kelly Ann Stoops, will be awarded posthumously. Kelly Ann, brainchild of the innovative family literacy project Book Blast, in the Allentown School...

SCRANTON — At a campaign stop in Scranton recently, Katie McGinty met with people who work with affordable housing and Medicaid — programs she advocated as Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's chief of staff. But even as she listened attentively, asking questions about how those programs are working, a restlessness...

I've been getting complaints for years about how slow the government is to appoint fiduciaries to manage veterans benefits for former service members or their spouses who are old or disabled. It seemed as if the Department of Veterans Affairs had forgotten about them. In some cases, it did. The...

The Lehigh Valley has been one of the fastest growing regions of Pennsylvania over the last five years, but it wouldn't be so without immigrants. Newly released population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show the bulk of the Lehigh Valley's population growth since the 2010 census can be attributed...