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REEDSVILLE — State police and county drug task force agents broke up what authorities called a major drug ring over the weekend.Authorities confiscated more than nine pounds of methamphetamine, as well as guns, large amounts of cash, a grenade launcher attachment and pipe bombs.During a press conference...

Taylor Galassi and Sarah Shown both laugh when asked, "Why Reefer Madness?" Their Bethlehem band This Way to The Egress will provide the soundtrack to the 1936 American propaganda film about the dangers of marijuana, along with a few songs before and after the screening, Saturday at the Frank Banko...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Proof," which contrasts the precision of math with the messiness of human relationships, will be presented by Global Impactors Group for two weekends beginning Friday at the Macungie Institute.The 2000 play by David Auburn won both the Tony Award for best play and...

Food you can get at a county fair or gas station doesn't usually have culinary clout. But hot dogs, the butt of many bad-food jokes, are enjoying an upgrade as more eateries give these treats their due respect. Johnnie Lustig's Frankfurters, a take-out spot that opened in January at 835 N. New...

ALLENTOWN — Almost runaway development by a handful of private companies has reversed the fortunes of Allentown's long-struggling downtown in just four years, and the annual subsidy they get from state taxpayers for their efforts continues to grow.The most recent numbers released Wednesday by Allentown...

Imprisoned by terrorists in a cave in Afghanistan, Margaret Fleck used available metal and tools to build a rocket-powered suit of armor that allowed her to subdue her enemies and … Hang on — that was Iron Man. What Margaret Fleck did was design an automated volume-regulating computer program for...

Heroin has been around for decades. The Velvet Underground lead singer Lou Reed penned an ode to the drug in 1964. So why is a nationwide overdose crisis of historic proportions happening only now?The answer — or at least part of it — may be found in how the federal government uses reimbursement...

Ed Stine has been driving a vehicle for more than a year knowing the headlights could fail at any moment.That rightly concerns him, and he wonders if General Motors shares that concern. Otherwise, wouldn't it have provided replacement parts by now?Stine's 2006 GMC Envoy is among about 430,000 vehicles...

Brian Symons, chapter president of Service Employees International Union Healthcare Pennsylvania, and others said Wednesday they had received a letter announcing that Schuylkill Health had signed a definitive agreement with Lehigh Valley Health Network.The letter, signed by Marc Lory, interim president/chief...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — New Jersey casino regulators have approved billionaire Carl Icahn's Tropicana casino to manage his newest Atlantic City acquisition, the Trump Taj Mahal.But they did so Wednesday with no guarantee that Icahn will invest the $100 million into the Taj Mahal that he had long...