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Security has been increased at Lehigh Valley International Airport in the wake of the bombings in Brussels, but no flights have been canceled or delayed.Explosions that killed dozens of people in the airport and subway system in Brussels has prompted LVIA to add security personnel, but travelers...

NEW HOLLAND, Pa. (AP) — State police have charged a man with exposing himself to several members of a central Pennsylvania Amish community because he knew they wouldn't use phones to call for help.Thirty-nine-year-old Benjamin Grafius, of New Holland, has been charged with eight incidents of indecent...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two suburban Philadelphia parents are facing charges they let several hundred teenagers party at their house with alcohol over the weekend.Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood says 54-year-old Abdul Ahmaddiya and 45-year-old Nichelle Davis-Ahmaddiya were charged...

Flights from Brussels Airport were canceled Tuesday morning after a series of explosions in the airport and a nearby subway station.Among the canceled flights was American Airlines Flight 751, scheduled to leave Brussels at 9:40 a.m. Central European Time and arrive at Philadelphia International...

LOWER NAZARETH TOWNSHIP — Lehigh Valley Health Network needs a 54-acre parcel slated for a warehouse by Industrial Developments International to get access from the Route 33 interchange to a proposed health campus in Lower Nazareth.Access to the campus, which would take up at least 90 acres, was...

Weekend vandalism on the early-20th-century mansion in Bethlehem Township's Housenick Park raised a question to officials Monday as to whether the historic building is getting proper care.Windows in the Georgian-Colonial mansion's sun room were broken, leading Bethlehem resident Doug Lander to...

EMMAUS — Emmaus Council on Monday got a look at the $4.85 million renovation plans for the borough's new digs at the former Rodale building at 33 E. Minor St., where eventually administration, police, fire and ambulance staff will be under one roof.The plans, unveiled by USA Architects, will be...

BETHLEHEM — The Bethlehem Area School Board on Monday approved 2016-17 budgets and the district contributions for the Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School, Northampton Community College and Colonial Intermediate Unit 20.The Bethlehem Area School District is the largest contributor to the...

Northampton Area School District administrators are preparing to make a budget presentation next month for the 2016-17 school year with no idea how much revenue they will receive from the state for the current year's budget.Superintendent Joseph Kovalchik has targeted April 11 for a staff presentation...

EMMAUS — Seven Generations Charter School is looking at closing its middle school next academic year, citing a need to restructure its curriculum for sixth, seventh and eighth grades. But the school on East Minor Street in Emmaus has been grappling with discipline problems and low test scores among...