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FORKS TOWNSIHP — An automobile service chain with one location in the Lehigh Valley will seek approval later this month to expand to Forks Township.Kost Tire & Auto Service is seeking to build a 6,960-square-foot service center with seven bays at 1519 Sullivan Trail, at the intersection of Town...

Brooms, garbage cans and radiator hoses are the instruments when "Stomp" returns to Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University March 10. The performers "make a rhythm out of anything we can get our hands on that makes a sound," says co-founder Luke Cresswell, who also directs. Created in 1991 as...

DICKSON CITY — Primanti Bros. Restaurant will open its first outlet in Northeast Pennsylvania on Thursday at 1249 Commerce Blvd., Dickson City.This will be the 31st location of the chain born in Pittsburgh's Strip District, known for large sandwiches.Fans hoping to be one of the first 100 customers...

BERWYN (AP) — Three senior football players at a suburban Philadelphia high school are accused of sexually assaulting a freshman on what the team called "No Gay Thursday."District Attorney Tom Hogan said Friday that three 17-year-old students at Conestoga High School held down a 14-year-old boy...

AMC Entertainment is acquiring rival Carmike Cinemas to create the world's largest movie theater chain. AMC, which Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group bought in 2012, said Thursday it is paying $1.1 billion including debt for Carmike. The combined company will be the dominant theater chain...

You can't think of your mobile phone as just a phone. It's a computer that stores your photos and videos, and your emails and text messages. You can use it to shop, bank and make other transactions, all of which usually require a password that you don't want falling into the hands of a scammer.

FORKS TOWNSHIP -- An international producer of baked pastry and frozen desserts may soon establish its first manufacturing and distribution center in the United States in Northampton County.Brownstone Food Products will go before the Board of Supervisors later this month seeking conditional use...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's unemployment rate has dipped one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.6 percent, the lowest since September 2007.The state Labor Department said Friday that total nonfarm jobs in January were down 16,100 from December's record high of more than 5.85 million. The...

EASTON — Northampton County Council on Thursday night backed a new bridge repair program that will temporarily give away 33 bridges so they can undergo construction.By a unanimous vote, council transferred ownership of the bridges to the county's General Purpose Authority so they would be eligible...

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP — Lower Macungie's first cluster housing development is finally moving forward.The Lower Macungie Board of Commissioners Thursday granted approval for the first phase of Stone Hill Meadows, across Gehman Road from the Hills at Lockridge development. It's just west of the...