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For its fifth year, ArtsQuest's Blast Furnace Blues festival has figured out what local blues lovers like. A great preview night of regional acts, headlined by Lehigh Valley guitar icon Craig Thatcher, kicks things off on Friday at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem.Among the 18 national...

Nearly 140 tatoo artists — from the region, the country and some pretty famous in the world of inking, are coming to Bethlehem Friday through Sunday for the 9th annual Skindustry Tattoo Expo at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center.Steve Lemak, owner of The Quillian Tattoo Shop and organinzer of Skindustry,...

If there's one overwhelming feeling at Sorella's Pizza & Pasta in Bethlehem, it's family. It pretty much filled the Nazareth Pike eatery in every way, from the easy camaraderie between the customers and owners Giuseppe and Delores Durante as they worked the counter to the heaping servings of authentic...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A court challenge seeking to knock Republican presidential candidate John Kasich off the Pennsylvania primary ballot could hinge on whether 5 p.m. was the latest time on the deadline day to file it.A Commonwealth Court judge told lawyers Wednesday to file briefs next week.The...

The outside spending is coming to Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race. The national women’s group EMILY’s List said Wednesday that it plans to spend $1 million to promote Democratic Senate candidate Katie McGinty in the weeks leading up to the April 26 primary. That will include airing television ads...

ALLENTOWN—It has been a while since anyone announced a major office tenant in downtown Allentown. The last big score, Morgan Stanley, whose move to Allentown was announced in July 2015, held a ribbon-cutting Wednesday for its new offices on the seventh floor of Three City Center, showing off spectacular...

Lafayette College will cancel classes and other activities Thursday and Friday to help combat an outbreak of the norovirus stomach bug on campus, the college president said Wednesday.The announcement follows reports of at least 52 sick students with stomach trouble seeking medical attention this...

WHITEHALL — Work to improve Route 145 and Route 329 in Whitehall is getting started with an expected December completion date, according to PennDOT. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said work was to begin Wednesday. Drivers have been cautioned to expect occasional lane restrictions...

ALTOONA (AP) — A grand jury report that found two former bishops helped cover up the sexual abuse of hundreds of children by more than 50 priests in a Pennsylvania diocese has prompted a sitting judge to resign from a Catholic school board and the current bishop to remove cathedral banners that...

ALLENTOWN — Several people were evacuated from a two-alarm fire Wednesday afternoon on North Seventh Street in Allentown, according to radio reports.. The fire was reported around 2:15 p.m. in the 200 block of North Seventh Street. Fire officials radioed that initial reports indicated people may...