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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Honor student Asher Potts was well into his senior year in high school when police got a tip that the earnest teenager who had so impressed community leaders for nearly four years was not the person he claimed to be.Investigators soon concluded Potts was actually a 23-year-old...

PITTSBURGH — A 147-page grand jury report that outlines decades of child sexual abuse in excruciating detail in the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown has revived calls for Pennsylvania to eliminate its statute of limitations for that crime.A statewide grand jury report made public this week by the attorney...

EASTON – An exercise room, classroom space, a firing range and an interview room. After nearly a decade of searching, city officials said their new 29,765-square-foot police station will house all that and more. The city's police have shared additional details about the project, which would be...

Avner Eisenberg can juggle, tumble, balance on a rope and do magic tricks, but he says he discovered that the most interesting part of his act was not displaying his skills but what leads up to it."Everyone has knocked something off a desk and then reached to pick it up and their glasses fall off,"...

Name: Rita SayeghHometown: NorthamptonType of pet: DogName: ChloeAge: 7 1/2Breed: Jack Russell/ beagle mixGender: FemaleWhy she is my friend: Gives me unconditional love and kisses.In four words: Energetic, smart, loving, crazy and a sweetheart.Best trait: Very protective and loving.Personality:...

For the past three years, ever since Lehigh Valley Music Awards began a collaboration with ArtsQuest, there has been a focus on growing the event, as well as sharpening it for a more professional presentation.The fruits of that labor will be more on display than ever at 4 p.m. Sunday, when the...

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP — Lower Macungie should get its first dog park later this year at Camp Olympic despite not receiving a state grant to pay for it.The township included $76,000 in its 2016 budget for the off-leash dog park, and a volunteer committee has so far raised about $2,300 in donations...

In one of those say-no-more gestures, attorney William Ford pulled a flip phone out of his suit pocket and held it up to a DeSales University crowd that had come to hear a discussion of privacy rights versus security in the computer age."Usually I leave this in the car," Ford said, as the roomful...

Surprising research findings from the State of the Lehigh Valley 2015-2016 report which was released Thursday by the Lehigh Valley Research Consortium:• 53 percent: Number of residents "not concerned at all about losing their jobs."• 39 percent: Percentage saying Lehigh Valley race relations are...

Republican Brian Fitzpatrick, whose brother U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick has decided not to run for reelection, jumped into the 8th Congressional District campaign to replace his sibling in January. He has a campaign website, but its Google-metrics buried it in the middle of the second page of search...