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Union workers at Verizon, including about 500 employees in the Lehigh Valley and Berks County, set a strike deadline Monday after months of failing to reach a new labor contract with the telecom giant.A news release from unions representing the workers said nearly 40,000 Verizon workers from Massachusetts...

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump will make his first campaign visit to Pennsylvania on Wednesday. Trump is scheduled to appear in Pittsburgh, where he'll tape a one-hour event with Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity, according to his show's website.  The taping at the Soldiers...

Vince's Cheesesteaks is now open in downtown Allentown, filling the void left when Tony Luke's abruptly closed its doors on Hamilton Street less than two months ago.A few dozen people crammed into the space at 806 W. Hamilton St. late Monday morning to celebrate the grand opening of Vince's with...

As a sophomore at Tamaqua Area High School, Cindy Miller helped lead the Blue Raiders to the PIAA Class AA girls basketball championship in 1978. "Being all for the good of the team was something that was part of my life," recalled Miller, who scored 2,155 in her career. The 53-year-old Tamaqua...

More than $90,000 for poverty relief has been distributed to 16 programs and agencies in the Catholic Diocese of Allentown.The money comes from the Poverty Relief Fund collection taken up in the 89 parishes of the five-county diocese in the third weekend of November, the diocese said in a news...

State Trooper George Hare called for backup from his patrol car just before stepping onto Route 119 in East Huntingdon to pick up pieces of a shattered wooden pallet strewn across the road.That's the last thing he remembers.The trooper can't recall the SUV that hit him.In fact, he doesn't remember...

At one time in the Lehigh Valley, many people spoke the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. There were sections of the paper devoted to the dialect, and speakers gathered at Versommlings and Grundsau Lodsch to speak and sing in dialect.Today there are still groups in the region dedicated to preserving...

Forks Township is considering changing the way recyclables are collected from residential properties.The township is inviting the public to meetings on May 5 and June 15 where township supervisors and staff will answer questions and get feedback on switching from the current single-hauler system...

FORKS TOWNSHIP — Rising from a cornfield, Forks Township's public works building was supposed to be a $5.6 million environmental wonder, built into the side of a hill with a vegetated roof that makes it appear to be part of the surrounding land.But from the start, the building at Newlins Road East...

HANOVER TOWNSHIP, LEHIGH COUNTY – Pennsylvania State Police released new details Sunday about the two-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a 3-year-old Saturday.Nevaeha Lydia Marie Rivera, of Weatherly, died after her family's green sedan collided with a black pickup truck on the 1900 block of...