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If you didn't file a tax return in 2012 and are afraid to do it now because of possible penalties, you could be rewarded instead. The IRS says it is holding $950 million in income tax refunds for people who didn't file returns that year. The deadline to file a return to claim any refund you may...

PALMER TOWNSHIP – Northampton County's Majestic Athletic, which holds exclusive rights to Major League Baseball team uniforms, said Thursday it has signed a licensing agreement with a Mississippi company to make camouflage-sports clothing both companies anticipate will reach crossover fans of outdoors...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia police officer has described being ambushed in his cruiser by a silent gunman who later said he acted in the name of Islam.Officer Jesse Hartnett testified during Thursday's preliminary hearing about how his left arm was shattered by gunfire as he used it to cover...

HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) — A fire chief says one person has died in a Hazleton, Pennsylvania rooming house blaze.Hazleton Deputy Fire Chief Bryan Mandak says one person died in the fire that broke out about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the three-story rooming house.The chief says the flames traveled rapidly...

The Lehigh Valley hit 80 degrees Wednesday afternoon, setting the record for the warmest March 9 in history, the National Weather Service said. The previous record was set in 2000, when Lehigh Valley International Airport (the area's official 'climate site') saw highs hit 70 degrees. Here are some...

Lehigh Valley Health Network is seeking to build a massive health care campus on two separate parcels in Lower Nazareth Township.J. Scott Pidcock of The Pidcock Company presented a preliminary outline to the Board of Supervisors on Wednesday calling for a mixture of low- and mid-rise buildings...

EASTON — After weeks of rancorous debate, Easton City Council decided Wednesday to let go of more than 60 years of tradition and move the annual holiday Peace Candle lighting ceremony to the Saturday after Thanksgiving, as was done last year."I'm convinced that working together on Saturday, we...

Will a 626-spot parking deck in south Bethlehem be the linchpin for a long-awaited economic development project, bringing professionals within walking distance to downtown shops and restaurants and spurring other investment? Or will it be a $17.5 million boondoggle, dragging down the parking budget...

EASTON – Easton officials on Wednesday started cleaning up a large homeless camp along railroad tracks parallel to Lehigh Drive, a process they said has been in the works for months, since the camp grew to unruly proportions. The camp has been around for at least a year and includes encampments...

As a Corbett administration appointee to Penn State's board of trustees, then-Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis was criticized by some for his role in an administration they contend was eager to see Penn State punished over the Sandusky scandal.Yet it appears from emails turned over Tuesday to...