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LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP — A proposed commercial development featuring the Lehigh Valley's first Movie Tavern may jeopardize about a dozen sycamore trees that were planted during the Depression along Hamilton Boulevard near Trexlertown by a former congressman. Two arborists, one from the state Department...

ALLENTOWN — Dieruff High School band director Frank DiSimoni moves in front of the teenagers with trombone in hand and starts the count. "One." He snaps his fingers. "One and two and here we go." As Paul McCartney's voice fills speakers with the opening words to "Yesterday," the students join in...

HARRISBURG — Attorney General Kathleen Kane is fighting back against her criminal charges, asking Friday for the case to be thrown out for selective and vindictive prosecution, and asking that every Montgomery County judge be barred from hearing her case. Kane also challenged some of the evidence...

CATASAUQUA — A video showing Medical Academy Charter School students punching one another in the face, rolling around on floors in headlocks and pulling one another by the hair has created a social media frenzy. But the CEO of the school said most of the fights in the video occurred last year and...

BETHLEHEM — After a long ride back from his annual Florida vacation, Senior District Judge James Stocklas had enjoyed the sun and fun, but was anxious to get back home to Bethlehem.After parking his RV in the driveway, Stocklas caught a few hours sleep and awoke Friday morning with plans to visit...

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP — A proposed commercial development featuring the Lehigh Valley's first Movie Tavern may jeopardize about a dozen sycamore trees that were planted during the Depression along Hamilton Boulevard near Trexlertown by a former congressman.Two arborists, one from the state Department...

– The U.S. Senate is poised to vote as soon as this week on a bill to tackle the heroin and opioid abuse epidemic, which includes a provision from Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey addressing how Medicare patients access highly addictive drugs.The provision from Toomey, a Lehigh Valley Republican,...

ALLENTOWN — With pressure from activist investors mounting, CrossAmerica Partners' parent company CST Brands announced this week it has hired investment banks to help "review strategic alternatives," raising the possibility that the Allentown gas station owner and fuel supplier could be sold. CST...

ALLENTOWN — Janelle Daly's eyes welled with tears as she watched her 8-year-old son Kaleb Holder parade around the Lehigh County Sheriff's Office in an ill-fitting sheriff's jacket, utility belt and oversized sheriff's hat. The Kratzer Elementary School student babbled incessantly, but stood solemnly...

Souderton Area High School senior Hirsh Sisodia was one of only 54 students to earn every point possible on the AP Microeconomics Exam. Of 5.4 million AP exams taken by 2.5 million U.S. public high school students in 2015, only 322 students earned every possible point on then AP exam.Abby and Jerry...