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PITTSBURGH — As if there weren't enough to argue about this election season, Republicans may be poised to squabble over one of their own convention bylaws — and Ohio Gov. John Kasich's presidential aspirations may be at stake.Rule 40(b) of the party's rule book requires that to be eligible for...

There's a story that unfolds like an intriguing novel at Lafayette College and it revolves around the name Louis Comfort Tiffany. Tiffany (1848–1933) and his studio are recognized internationally as designers of everything from glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewelry to enamels and metalwork,...

Democrat Hillary Clinton is hitting the television airwaves in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The presidential contender and former secretary of state's campaign announced the 30-second ad on Friday. It describes the significant decisions facing a president, and highlights her accomplishements on women's...

EASTON – As part of a judge's order to ensure the Rock Church cleans up its properties, church officials will present plans to improve 501-503 Northampton St. during the city's Historic District Commission meeting Monday. The meeting is the latest in a decade's long battle between the city and...

SHREWSBURY (AP) — A trooper shot and wounded a man armed with a shotgun at a busy Pennsylvania Walmart after the man robbed the pharmacy for prescription drugs, state police said.State police received a call Thursday night from the Walmart in Shrewsbury, saying the store about 40 miles south of...

Jon Provost was a veteran film and television actor by the time he was cast — at age 7 — as the tow-haired, orphan Timmy Martin in the iconic TV show "Lassie" in 1957.He played the son of Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in "The Country Girl," a 1954 Academy Award winner in which Kelly received her...

EASTON – For the second year in a row, Easton Area School District is honoring select students from grades five through twelve with it's "Little Rock Nine Awards of Excellence."The award winners were announced by the district Friday. District officials created the awards last year to recognize...

For seven months Lehigh Valley International Airport Executive Director Charles Everett Jr. had one of the world's most recognizable companies using his airport daily, but he couldn't so much as utter the name — Amazon. But now that Amazon has announced a deal to lease 20 cargo jets — outing its...

Lehigh Valley Health Network dedicated a new pediatric surgical facility on Friday in honor of one of the region's biggest developers and his wife.The J.B. and Kathleen Reilly Children's Surgery Center, which opened its doors to patients on Monday, is part of the Children's Hospital at Lehigh Valley...

ALLENTOWN — A former coach for a Catholic Youth Organization basketball team in Upper Saucon Township pleaded guilty Friday to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in 2000. Daniel B. Eddinger, 38, of Macungie pleaded guilty before Lehigh County Judge Maria L. Dantos to indecent assault and corruption...