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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) — Police in suburban Philadelphia say surveillance video enabled them to identify the woman who kidnapped a baby boy from a mall and return the infant to his mother within about five hours. Seven-week-old Ahsir Simmons was reunited with his mother late Thursday. The alleged...

The Little Lehigh chapter of Trout Unlimited is seeking volunteers to help plant 162 trees and shrubs along a vulnerable 1,200-foot section of the Little Lehigh Creek in Lower Macungie Township.The coldwater fisheries conservation group received a $7,000 grant for the project from the Coldwater...

Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race is one of the most expensive in the country so far, according to campaign finance data crunched by the Sunlight Foundation. The D.C.-based nonprofit found that more than $8 million already has been spent on the Senate contest. That’s the fourth-highest amount spent...

LEHIGH TOWNSHIP — A pair of Republicans, one who serves in local government and another who served overseas in the military, seek the party's nomination in the April 26 primary for the state's 183rd District.The contest pits Lehigh Township Supervisor Cindy Miller, 56, against township resident...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian Institution now plans to acknowledge the sexual-assault allegations against Bill Cosby at its new African-American history museum on the National Mall, which will display two items related to Cosby's career in television and stand-up comedy.The National Museum of African...

No day is too gray to leach the color out of bluebells. The field of them at Lock Ridge Park in Alburtis cheered the soul Thursday afternoon, even though the sky promised rain. Bluebells look like little bunches of grapes ready for pressing — that's why the proper name of the plant is the grape...

Governor Tom Wolf visited Allentown Thursday to promote a proposed increase in the state minimum wage with the help of a local business owner. Wolf met with Rose Thomas the owner of Parkway Caribbean on Union Street who favors Wolf's proposal to set the minimum wage at $10.15 an hour. With more...

When Duran Duran's new album "Paper Gods" has been around long enough for people to look at it in context with the British new wave band's catalog, it's going to have a distinct place, bass guitarist and co-founder John Taylor says. The disc, which was released in September and became Duran Duran's...

The 14 community colleges in the state and the 14 Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education universities Wednesday signed a statewide reverse transfer agreement, PASSHE reported. The agreement will allow students who have earned at least 60 total credits to apply for an associate's degree from...

PennEast will have to wait longer than initially anticipated to receive final approval for its 115-mile natural gas pipeline which is proposed to cut through Northampton County as part of its route. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which is responsible for granting approval of utility...