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From barbecue businesses such as Smokin' Bull Shack and Bad Bones BBQ to dessert destinations such as Trixie's Treats and Pirate Cupcakes, the region's tastiest companies on wheels will converge May 14 for the inaugural Lehigh Valley Food Truck Festival.The May 14 event will be held in two sessions...

Bethlehem City Council has asked a judge to toss a legal challenge to a new zoning ordinance that makes it easier to demolish Martin Tower and primes the property around it for development.Among the arguments in the city's 25-page response is that the nine plaintiffs — which include downtown merchants...

Three months after Lehigh County adopted stringent new rules forbidding political donors from doing business with the county, a commissioner is proposing new rules that would set soft limits on how much people can donate to political candidates.Commissioner Geoff Brace has floated an outline that...

The Palmer Park Mall was sold for $18 million Tuesday, but seller Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust isn't naming the buyer yet. Philadelphia-based PREIT disclosed the sale of the Palmer Township shopping center in a news release Tuesday announcing its fourth-quarter results. Company officials...

ALLENTOWN — As Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak was detailing his views in Allentown and elsewhere on how to keep the country safer, President Barack Obama offered what he said was one proposal: closing the Guantanamo Bay Prison.Sestak, a retired Navy admiral and former Delaware County...

ALLENTOWN — The owners of PPL Plaza can't blame Allentown's Neighborhood Improvement Zone Development Authority for their financial troubles, the authority's attorney said in federal court documents filed Monday."Any future inability of [PPL Plaza's owner] to meet its debt service will be due to...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Joe Sestak is trying to make Pennsylvania's four-way race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate into a three-way race. Sestak filed a court challenge Tuesday to the candidate petitions of political unknown Joe Vodvarka. In the challenge, Sestak says more than 60 percent...

NORRISTOWN (AP) — A former Montgomery County Republican chairman who pleaded no contest to a sex offense has agreed to be disbarred. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the disciplinary board of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court accepted Kerns' resignation from practicing law on Monday. Kerns'...

The owner of a half-million square foot distribution center in Upper Macungie Township faces foreclosure after defaulting on a $56 million mortgage last month. U.S. Bank filed the foreclosure complaint Friday in U.S. District Court in Allentown against a partnership affiliated with Philadelphia-area...