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ALLENTOWN — Allentown City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a more than $319,000 contract for the maintenance and monitoring of the city's surveillance camera network.The three-year agreement with two optional one-year extensions will be inked with Communication Systems Inc., an Upper...

The Allentown School District was literally in the process of seeking approval in Lehigh County Court for a $45 million loan on Wednesday when word came from Harrisburg that the nine-month budget impasse was over. Gov. Tom Wolf announced he was allowing the 2015-16 budget to become law without...

If you have a tough time making up your mind, Cheeburger Cheeburger might be a challenge for you. The menu at this chain restaurant in downtown Easton, one of more than 60 nationwide and six in Pennsylvania, touts a combination of 8,721,000 burger combinations alone. I'm no math whiz, but when...

WASHINGTON — Federal taxpayers will help cover snowstorm removal costs born by municipalities across much of Pennsylvania, including the Lehigh Valley.President Obama on Wednesday approved disaster aid related to the Jan. 22-23 storm that buried parts of the Valley under more than 30 inches of...

When it comes to the theme of love, both Shakespeare and Hollywood are often on the same page. Even when it's not love at first sight, we all know that all the quibbling and seemingly irreconcilable differences will end happily, usually in marriage. While Hollywood may have invented the love-theme...

The New York Neo-Futurists perform an astounding 30 plays in 60 minutes in "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind."The experimental production comes Wednesday, March 30 to the Williams Center for the Arts at Lafayette College, Easton."Our next show honestly may be our most interesting yet," says...

WASHINGTON — The discovery of a century-old shipwreck off the San Francisco coast has resolved one of the U.S. Navy's greatest maritime mysteries. And for Violet Pammer, it resolved the question of what happened to her Uncle Harvey. "I grew up with Uncle Harvey's picture hanging on the wall. We...

Can you build a contraption to protect an egg from breaking when it's dropped 19 feet? That's the challenge presented when Da Vinci Science Center's EggCellent Adventures returns Friday, Saturday and Monday.Eggs will be dropped 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day from the center's second-floor balcony....

Nine films that explore the joy of fly fishing, with backdrops ranging from Bolivia to Saskatchewan, Montana to Virginia, and Patagonia to the Seychelles islands off East Africa, are on this year's Fly Fishing Film Tour on Wednesday, March 30.The films will be shown in the Frank Banko Alehouse...

The Eagles has always had a huge following for its country-rock music. That's what made it one of the best-selling music acts of all time, with 100 million albums sold in the United States and its "Greatest Hits 1971-75" the third-best-selling album of all time.The January death of singer/frontman...