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— Outside spending has arrived in Pennsylvania's Democratic U.S. Senate primary race. Hitting the airwaves this week is a 30-second spot from a super PAC supporting Democrat Joe Sestak. The ad from the Accountable Leadership PAC relays key highlights of Sestak's biography, touting his three decades...

— Weis Markets Inc. has purchased a North Whitehall Township shopping center on Route 873, but its longterm plans for the plaza are a mystery.Weis bought the center, built in 1957 and located on a 9-acre parcel at 5350 Route 873, in January for about $2.6 million, according to Lehigh County property...

MIDDLE SMITHFIELD TWP. — This mild winter — mild, that is, except for the stunning 31-inch snowfall in the middle — has offered plenty of unexpected delights, like a 70-degree Christmas Eve and lettuce growing on New Year's Day.But the best is yet to come. The amphibians are on the march.In coming...

BETHLEHEM — Bethlehem firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze Thursday afternoon at a West Garrison Street home. Fire crews were called to the home around 4 p.m., according to police radio reports. When firefighters arrived, they found heavy flames and thick black smoke pouring from a home in the...

Pennsylvania has seen a 14-fold increase in drug overdose deaths over last 35 years, with the death rate of relatively young white women climbing fastest, a new study has found.The analysis, published Thursday in the journal PLOS ONE by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health,...

NAZARETH — The Nazareth School Board approved a contract for the district's custodial and maintenance workers Wednesday night, though the district's teachers continue to work without one.The three-year agreement with the Teamster's Union Local #773 includes a pay freeze for 2015-16 school year,...

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP — Hamilton Boulevard is the closest thing Lower Macungie has to a Main Street, and the township is doing everything it can to make it look like one.David Jaindl believes his proposed Movie Tavern-anchored commercial development in Trexlertown would enhance the corridor.But...

Allentown voters may be asked to fund universal pre-Kindergarten and a long-awaited scholarship program for all city students if a ballot question from Mayor Ed Pawlowski makes it on the ballot this fall.Pawlowski announced plans Thursday at the annual mayor's breakfast hosted by the Greater Lehigh...

SCRANTON — A federal jury awarded two couples nearly $4.25 million on Thursday after finding one of the largest natural gas drillers in Pennsylvania polluted their well water.The verdict came at the end of a bitter and long-running federal lawsuit pitting homeowners in the village of Dimock against...

A new super PAC ad is hitting the Pennsylvania airwaves to promote Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak as the April 26 primary draws closer. The 30-second spot from Accountable Leadership, a recently formed super PAC, relays a message that’s similar to Sestak’s: he ran against Republican...