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Ohio Gov. John Kasich's town hall at Villanova this week was sprinkled with a plethora of folksy anecdotes and quotes. Here a few of the better ones. "Don't take no for an answer. Be a pest. Be a polite pest, but be a pest." "At Villanova, there's a lot of lonely kids, a lot of lonely students....

LOWER SAUCON TOWNSHIP — Lower Saucon Township Council and Hellertown approved a plan to remove a dam on Saucon Creek. The project near Water Street has been in the discussion phase since 2008. The dam removal could be completed by 2018. Removing the dam will restore this part of the stream to its...

LOWER MILFORD TOWNSHIP — State police at Fogelsville have been covering Lower Milford Township around the clock since June, when the second of the township's two police officers went on leave with workers' compensation claims. On Wednesday, the Lower Milford Board of Supervisors decided to formally...

HARRISBURG — Attorney General Kathleen Kane's office has won another court fight in its quest to keep from the public thousands of sexual or offensive emails shared on government computers.In a split decision issued Tuesday, a three-judge panel of Commonwealth Court ruled that the emails were not...

HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania ethics board said Thursday it wants to drop a key charge against a newly resigned Supreme Court justice in a move that could help him keep his pension despite allegations he violated rules by exchanging raunchy and otherwise inappropriate emails.The Judicial Conduct...

A Washington think tank's new report on poverty offers a disheartening view of communities that have been on life support for years and are seeing little or no benefit from the improving economy.In the Lehigh Valley and beyond, the struggling areas range from the expected, such as inner-city precincts...

BETHLEHEM — Lehigh Valley Health Network is Bethlehem Steel FC's official jersey partner and provider of health care, orthopedic, sports medicine, medical and physical therapy services, the club announced Thursday.LVHN is the United Soccer League team's first Foundry Partner, the premier corporate...

ALLENTOWN — Don't look now Lehigh Valley, but according to the National Weather Service the first day of spring could bring snow again.It's still hard to believe that The Morning Call found (and photographed) a long line of customers standing in a snowstorm to get their free Rita's Italian ice...

A restructuring of newspaper production operations for The Express-Times has resulted in more job cuts in Easton, the newspaper reported on its website Thursday.Eight people who work in advertising support in Easton are affected because a majority of their work will be outsourced, the paper reported....

Judith's Reading Room has always been more of a philosophy and a mission than a physical place, though it had a brick-and-mortar location on Third Street in Bethlehem for a few years.It was a small office where the nonprofit literacy program's volunteers sorted and packed donated books to ship...