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Any policy that Nazareth officials adopt regarding vendor fees for special events likely won't go into effect until 2017.Councilman Lance Colondo said during Monday's business meeting that he was opposed to charging a vendor fee of $50 to the merchants from the Greater Lehigh Valley Mobile Food...

ALLENTOWN — In a little more than 15 years, Our Lady of Mercy Syriac Catholic parish in Allentown has grown from a small mission outpost to a thriving community of 500 families. Now, the mysterious suspension of the parish's longtime priest — and the appointment of a priest from a different rite...

EMMAUS — After 30 years with the Emmaus Police Department, including 16 as chief, David A. Faust plans to retire later this month. At Monday's Borough Council meeting, Mayor Winfield Iobst read Faust's retirement announcement. Faust, who was not at the meeting, praised the police officers in his...

PALMER TOWNSHIP — Palmer Township had to clear clogged sanitary sewer mains on seven occasions in 2015.Very often, municipal officials say, the cause was congealed fat, oil and grease that restricted flow through the pipes. In those cases, the restriction was directly downstream from a restaurant,...

The Madison Farms residential and retail complex in Bethlehem Township is set to include a medical office building.Plans for the two-story structure came before township commissioners Monday night and presented as a change in the original plan that called for two restaurants.Representatives of...

ALLENTOWN – The Allentown School District has reached a $135,000 settlement with a former administrator who filed a federal lawsuit against the district claiming he was targeted for raising alarm about discrimination against minority students.Jose Rosado, the former director of alternative education...

ALLENTOWN – The Allentown School District, which is under federal supervision for its handling of sexual harassment complaints, has disciplined an employee who allegedly made inappropriate sexual remarks to a 14-year-old girl in December. Monicka Moody said her daughter, a freshman at the district's...

SOUTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP — The Allentown regional office of the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement hopes to find a new in South Whitehall after spending years in modular offices behind the state police Bethlehem barracks. Lt. Matthew Rowlands, eastern section commander, said the Allentown office...

If you were trying to devise a job that makes it difficult to eat healthy, exercise regularly and keep excess weight off, you'd be hard-pressed to top truck driving. Long hours spent sitting in the driver's seat broken up by quick stops at fast food restaurants, truck stops and greasy spoon diners...

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Katie McGinty will begin airing her first television ad on Tuesday in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh media markets. The 30-second ad, which the McGinty campaign posted Monday on YouTube, features the former state environmental protection secretary talking about...