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UPPER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP – Air Products said Thursday one of its divisions has been contracted to build a "large quantity" of gas separators for purifying hydrogen at a facility in north-central China.In a news release, the Trexlertown industrial gases supplier said its division, which is in St....

The teachers and advisors who spent time with Holbrook Kohrt at Muhlenberg College knew he would go on to great things, and he did. They also knew he might not live very long, and he didn't. Kohrt, a physician and a faculty member at Stanford University in California, was just 38 when he died Feb....

ALLENTOWN – A Central Elementary student brought an "inoperable gun" to school Tuesday, according to the Allentown School District. The district said the weapon was not capable of being used. Security and administration intervened immediately. "All students were safe at all times," district spokeswoman...

Gamblers left more than $200 million behind in slot machines in Pennsylvania last month, giving casinos their second-biggest February since they began opening in 2006.Every casino saw a jump in slot machines revenues for the months, in part because leap year gave them an extra day, but mostly because...

Attorney General Kathleen Kane's closest confidant and driver, Patrick Reese, will learn his sentence today for violating a judge's order by snooping through coworkers' emails to keep tabs on a grand jury investigating his boss. Reese, 48, a former Lackawanna County police chief hired by Kane to...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A clergy abuse hotline has gotten more than 100 calls in two days since the attorney general released a scathing report on a central Pennsylvania diocese. Attorney General Kathleen Kane's report said two former bishops, James Hogan and Joseph Adamec, either covered up or...

EASTON – An 80-spot parking lot that's part of a $20 million renovation project at Paxinosa Elementary School has some West Ward residents concerned about whether there will be enough open space left for children to play.Spring Garden Street resident Amanda Williams on Wednesday presented the Easton...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Groups on both sides of the debate plan to show up at Gettysburg National Military Park for Confederate Flag Day.The Sons of Confederate Veterans have plans to honor the stars-and-bars battle flag that some view as divisive or racist.And Scott Hancock, a professor of history...

A Philadelphia Common Pleas judge has set a May 13 trial date in the civil case of Lane v. CBS Broadcasting Inc. Former CBS3 anchor Alycia Lane alleged in a lawsuit that the station was negligent for failing to stop her onetime coanchor Larry Mendte from hacking into her work and personal email...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A registered nurse who acknowledged drinking four or five beers in the hours before assisting an operation at a veterans' hospital in Pennsylvania has resigned.Kim Borland, the attorney representing Richard Pieri, acknowledged Wednesday that he resigned. She wouldn't comment...