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Potbelly Sandwich Shop is riding the wave of chain "fast food" that retains a soul. This eatery that opened at 3217 Schoenersville Road in Bethlehem in November has a counter and servers who hustle to get your food to you quickly. But in other ways, Potbelly, which has more than 280 shops across...

Lehigh Valley natives Dane DeHaan, Amanda Seyfried and Christine Taylor receive a Valley tribute next week thanks to Civic Theatre's Hometown Hollywood Film Series.The three-day event kicks off on March 1 with the area premiere of "Life" starring DeHaan, continues on March 2 with "Mean Girls" featuring...

GREATER BETHLEHEM RESTAURANT WEEK RETURNSGreater Bethlehem Restaurant Week, running Monday through March 6, rounds up 19 restaurants on the south side, in the downtown and throughout Bethlehem for a diverse array of tastes and styles.Fixed price multi-course menus in a range of prices — lunch:...

The Bethlehem Parking Authority voted Wednesday to raise the parking rates at its garages and parking lots, an increase aimed at helping to pay for a new garage on the South Side and other capital projects.The hike, which will take effect May 1, will increase the monthly rates at the Walnut Street...

The new owners of the Palmer Park Mall said they see "great value" in the Palmer Township shopping center and plan to jazz it up moving forward. Jack Friedler, president of Cityview Commercial LLC, said in an emailed statement that the New York City commercial real estate firm was attracted to...

Citibank will refund millions of dollars to customers and stop trying to collect credit card debts from others following probes into the bank's debt collections. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Citibank broke the law by providing inaccurate and inflated interest rate information for...

Air Products' plan to spin off its materials technologies division into a publicly traded company, Versum Materials, is still months away, but at least one financial analyst wonders if the new business could be for sale. Asked by the analyst Wednesday if he would be open to selling Versum, soon-to-be...

We now know why the debut of the Obamacare health insurance shopping website was such a failure that only six people in the entire country got it to work well enough to select coverage on the day it launched in 2013.A new study of the boondoggle describes a government machine running on autopilot...

PPL Electric Utilities filed a notice Tuesday, supporting the state Public Utility Commission's request to re-argue a public-records case before the Supreme Court.A statewide media coalition that includes The Morning Call opposes re-arguing the case, which centers on an anonymous letter critical...

LEHIGH TWP — Lehigh Township officials won't have to use the eminent domain powers one supervisor called "detestable" after learning Tuesday that the property owner holding up an intersection widening project reached an agreement with the developer. The more than year-long effort to widen the crossroads...