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These disciplinary and licensing actions were announced recently by Pennsylvania's licensing boards against professionals who live and work in the Lehigh Valley area. The information is taken verbatim from the PA Department of State's website, where you can find all of the actions against professionals...

UPPER DARBY — A suburban Philadelphia transit worker has found a bag loaded with over $15,000 in the middle of a road and turned it in to police. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Bob Tracey was driving home from work Monday night when he spotted the black bag. Tracey says he thought it was...

EMMAUS — An Emmaus woman whose autistic grandson has wandered away from home four times was among those making a plea to Borough Council Monday to join a system that helps find such people more quickly.Three Emmaus residents asked Council to join Project Lifesaver International, which uses tracking...

Emmaus is planning to extend the area where school buses can wait to drop off and pick up Seven Generations Charter School students on Minor Street to alleviate congestion on Second Street at those times.Borough Council Monday had the first reading of an ordinance that would extend the staging...

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP — The official map Lower Macungie is poised to adopt is all about buying time. The proposed map and an associated ordinance would allow Lower Macungie to articulate its long-term goals for particular properties, such as turning a privately owned farm into a park or open...

WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania school district is investigating reports that some students possessed gummy bear candies laced with some kind of drugs.The West Mifflin School District says on a Facebook page that officials found a "small group of students in possession of suspicious...

A Bucks County man must pay more than $260,000 and plant 220 trees to restore what conservationists say cannot be restored in this lifetime.David L. Topel, 62, of Stoney Hill Road in Solebury, admitted carelessness Tuesday before President Judge Jeffrey L. Finley when he pleaded no contest to a...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is set to review a law designed to make it easier for gun owners and organizations like the National Rifle Association to challenge local gun-control measures.The state's Republican-led Legislature had passed a law that let organizations like the...

Formulating the Saucon Valley School District's 2016-2017 budget may take industrial-grade scissors or a money machine to make up for a shortfall of nearly $3 million.The shortfall is large enough that even a 1.24 mill tax increase is not powerful enough to raise enough money to cover it. District...

A massive mixed-use development with retail and residential elements will become reality following the approval of a new zoning district in Lehigh Township. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a rezoning of the 278-acre Mary Immaculate Center property on Cherryville Road, establishing...