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Some 40,000 Verizon workers, including 500 in the Lehigh Valley and Berks County, will go on strike Wednesday morning, union leaders said Tuesday night."Six a.m., we'll be on the street," said Ed Mooney, international vice president of the Communications Workers of America District 2-13. "We can't...

Lehigh Township will soon double the amount of athletic field space at one of its parks.The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday awarded a contract to create an additional multi-purpose field and 1-mile walking trail at Delps Park to Livengood Excavators, Walnutport.The 49-acre park at 1200 Delps Road,...

— The three Democrats vying in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race drew perhaps their biggest distinctions during Tuesday's debate when asked about their favored candidates for the race at the top of the ticket.Former state environmental protection chief Katie McGinty, who has endorsed former Secretary...

HARRISBURG — Last minute attempts to postpone and stop a bill that would extend the statute of limitations for child sex abuse cases failed Tuesday in the House. And they failed by very wide margins as a majority of Republican and Democratic lawmakers united behind a collective belief they had...

— Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey says his meeting Tuesday with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland didn't alter his position that the next president should fill the high court's vacancy.The Lehigh Valley legislator said after an hour-long meeting with Garland that the nominee is "impressive"...

EASTON – Former Easton Area School District Principal Stephen Furst says in court papers that district officials aren't living up to a settlement reached late last year and still owe him more than $24,000 in banked personal and sick days, as well as access to his former office so he can collect...

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP — Environmental activists and other concerned citizens of Lehigh County on Monday implored Lehigh County Authority Board of Directors to do a better job engaging the public and to take seriously new transparency initiatives.A handful of attendees cited issues involving sewer...

Jeanette Denton slipped up when she was paying her bills in February.She slipped her check to UGI in the envelope for her rent payment, and sent her rent check to UGI.She didn't realize it until her condominium office alerted her. Denton retrieved the gas check from the condo office and tried to...

HARRISBURG — For the second time in less than a year, the Pennsylvania Senate passed medical marijuana legislation Tuesday, and backers hope the House will accept the changes and send it to Gov. Tom Wolf's desk later this week. The issue has won overwhelming, bipartisan support in both chambers...

Two aging and underutilized former industrial buildings on 15th Street in Allentown could be transformed into 69 apartment units under the latest plan presented by Developer Nat Hyman.The $8.4 million plan calls for a variety of apartment units and a few townhomes in two large brick buildings...