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PARKLAND — If you are trying to explain to little kids what school is all about, who better to do that than a big kid who has gone through it? Parkland School District gave the job of writing a children's book about the Parkland experience to Laura Sorrentino, a high school senior. Jennifer Beam,...

ALLENTOWN — Reflecting the volatile power generation business in which it operates, Talen Energy reported a net loss of $341 million for 2015 on operating revenues of $4.48 billion Thursday morning, including a loss of $62 million in the fourth quarter.Talen's stock has been battered in 2015, as...

EASTON — One of the pleasures of hagiography is that it approaches the truth on a slant, through the fires of imagination. That’s how the truth of the saints can live on in the absence of facts, or at least in the absence of certainty. Could St. Joseph of Cupertino fly? We have only the testimony...

The following excerpts are from the Aug. 6 affidavit of probable cause the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office filed against state Attorney General Kathleen Kane for perjury and other offenses. The affidavit describes an April 22, 2014 phone call between Kane and her political consultant...

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP — For the last 90 years, a brick bungalow with burgundy doors and terra cotta roof has stood on Hamilton Boulevard in Wescosville, a testament to a bygone era when businessmen built handsome homes along the village's main corridor. Over the years, the American Craftsman-style...

HARRISBURG — Attorney General Kathleen Kane's political consultant was caught on an FBI wiretap talking about how she wanted the consultant's help in passing along documents that later became the subject of a grand jury leak probe, The Morning Call has learned.The FBI recorded the conversation...

Just as they were getting a handle on how much money and resources went toward coping with the aftermath of the late January record-setting snowstorm , East Allen Township officials had another severe storm to deal with.The band of ferocious weather that traveled through the region Wednesday night...

UPPER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP – It only seems fitting, with the Lehigh Valley becoming known as a major beverage manufacturer and harboring a plentiful water supply, that something should be done to help people in Flint, Mich., who have been dealing with a health crisis over lead-contaminated water.Something...

— Outside the Supreme Court on Thursday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and fellow Senate Democrats called on Republican senators to change their stance on considering a nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.But as he broadly criticized legislators from the other party for how they've responded to the...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former Pennsylvania high school baseball coach faces sentencing for stealing more than $90,000 from a charity for terminally ill children.Steven Wetzel pleaded guilty in September to stealing from the fund he founded in the memory of a player who made national headlines in his...