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EASTON – It's not clear when demolition will be completed at 323 Northampton St., the building that partially collapsed during severe thunderstorms last month and delayed the opening of the much-anticipated Easton Public Market.After the partial collapse, city officials determined the facade and...

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski had legitimate reasons for awarding a delinquent tax collection contract that is now at the center of an FBI investigation, his attorney Jack McMahon said in a recent interview.The contract, awarded in 2014 to Wilkes-Barre firm Northeast Revenue Service and co-bidder...

HARRISBURG — A Republican candidate for an open Lehigh Valley state House seat has been booted off the ballot, and a Democrat could face a similar fate.Marc Grammes, 56, a former Lehigh County commissioner, cannot run for the 183rd District seat because he failed to file a mandatory financial disclosure...

It's the fifth year that ArtsQuest is presenting its Blast Furnace Blues Festival, and it believes it has honed in on a winning formula. It again has a lineup of 18 national and regional blues acts giving 23 performances on two stages. Among them: Grammy Award-winning, Blues Hall of Fame harmonica...

BETHLEHEM – The strategy to improve south Bethlehem, which today is known as Southside Vision 2020, began in 2001.Lidia Gonzalez moved to south Bethlehem from her native Venezuela four years earlier. Like many other people, Gonzalez has seen the South Side's transformation from an area rotting...

A federal judge gave his final approval Thursday to a $1.3 million settlement between a Lower Macungie Township-based Red Robin franchise owner and hundreds of servers who claimed they were illegally required to share tips with underpaid kitchen staff to satisfy minimum wage requirements. U.S....

This year marks a half century since blues harmonica player extraordinaire Charlie Musselwhite recorded his debut album "Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's Southside Band," a disc so influential that Rolling Stone magazine has included it on various "greatest ever" lists. In that time,...

Not many artists give us the opportunity to experience art the way Judy Pfaff does. Where other artists are content to let us look and admire from a distance, Pfaff offers extraordinary journeys into the very heart of art."Judy Pfaff: Somewhere After" at the Richard and Rissa Grossman Gallery at...

There's a lovely Irish song called "The Curragh of Kildare" about a man lamenting his true love's absence even as the beauty of the world unfolds around him after a long winter.Some versions are sung from a woman's point of view. Either way, it's one of a thousand songs that prove the acuity of...

HARRISBURG — Carmon Elliott is not a lawyer. But he got to play one Thursday in state court when he tried to convince a judge that Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is really a Canadian who has no constitutional right to be a candidate for U.S. president.Senior Judge Dan Pellegrini of Commonwealth...