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BETHLEHEM — The long-deteriorating former Goodman Furniture store on East Third Street was certified blighted by the Bethlehem Planning Commission on Thursday. Among the problems are holes in the roof, bricks falling out and cracked windows, according to Craig Hynes, the city's chief building inspector,...

Gun control is an issue in Bucks County's Democratic congressional primary, despite there being few differences between the candidates on the matter.State Rep. Steve Santasiero and Shaughnessy Naughton, a real estate magazine publisher and a former research chemist, are fighting to be the Democrat...

NEWARK, N.J. — An indictment charging two former allies of Gov. Chris Christie with crimes in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal is a "fantasy" that misapplies federal law and relies on statements made under immunity, lawyers for the defendants argued in briefs seeking to have the...

HARRISBURG — A politically charged court fight loomed Thursday over whether Pennsylvania's primary election voters can choose to raise the mandatory retirement age for more than 1,000 state judges or whether it will be postponed until the November general election.The Pennsylvania Department of...

Bethlehem's four police horses have a set of new wheels.Mayor Robert Donchez and police Chief Mark DiLuzio on Thursday announced the purchase of a new trailer for the city's Mounted Unit. The new trailer is big enough to carry the city's recently expanded unit of four horses.The $26,000 purchase...

Moving a massive four-story warehouse a mere 10 feet doesn't make a group of neighboring residents feel any better about it.That's what Lower Nazareth supervisors and representatives of F. Greek Development were told during a conditional use hearing Wednesday on a 300,288-square-foot warehouse...

BETHLEHEM — From the balcony at Musikfest Café, ArtsQuest CEO Kassie Hilgert probably had the best seat at SteelStacks last summer.She could clearly see music legend David Crosby on stage, his shock of white hair flowing over a dark suit as the rusted blast furnaces formed the backdrop through...

Two decades after Jewel exploded onto the music scene with the album "Pieces Of You," she's made an album that brings her back to the core of who she is as a musician and a person.It's called "Picking Up The Pieces," and it follows a period in which the singer had a son, Kase (now 4), divorced...

EASTON – The city of Easton will host an all-day landlord training program next Saturday designed to help owners and managers keep illegal drug activity and other criminal activity off their property. The program has been adapted for Easton by the city's Police Department and Redevelopment Authority...

On a spring day in 2011, a few dozen people made their way to a new arts center located amid the ruins of the former Bethlehem Steel plant. It was a sleek building made of concrete, steel and glass that stood in stark contrast to the towering, old blast furnaces across the street that reminded...