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Not many people would sit outside in February for hours in the snow with a friend to cook up a special type of sugar for a beer recipe. Chris Bowen would. The Bethlehem beer historian teamed with Fegley's Brew Works to brew a beer — steeped in history, of course — that will be used to toast at...

Chocolate and beer may seem like a bit of an odd combination.But not to people like Alan Pitotti, chef/owner of Dolce Patisserie in Hellertown."Chocolate goes with many, many different things," Pitotti says. "The different flavor attributes — bitterness, fruitiness — it all depends on where the...

Damascus creates a balance between pleasing customers familiar with the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean style of food and attracting the rest of us. My two best friends growing up were from Syria, so I was fortunate to have enjoyed countless homemade meals with native flavors. Owners Jamil and...

CATASAUQUA — A Catsauqua nonprofit focused on finding families for unwanted cats is frantically searching for homes – permanent or temporary – for the dozens of felines after borough officials ordered the animals removed. Catherine McCulloch, president of Feline Finish Line Rescue, is being cited...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A San Antonio school officer caught on tape body-slamming a middle-school student was fired Monday by the district, which said misstatements by the officer, an Emmaus High School grad, were revealed by the video.The Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas will represent...

ALLENTOWN — With Talen Energy beating its internally set financial goals, top company executives, including CEO Paul Farr, benefitted in 2015 from sizable bonus payments in the company's first seven months in business after it was spun off from PPL Corp.The power generation company far exceeded...

Southern Lehigh School District Superintendent Leah Christman will retire in October.The school board approved her retirement at Monday's school board meeting.Christman has been with the school district since 2007. She took over as superintendent in 2012, after then- Superintendent Joseph Liberati...

State officials are taking the fight against heroin and other deadly opiates to public high schools.On Tuesday, Gov, Tom Wolf announced that his administration, in partnership with Adapt Pharma, had moved closer to making the life-saving medication Narcan available at no cost to public high schools...

More than 500 motorists, including dozens in the Lehigh Valley, will have their vehicle titles returned to them unencumbered by liens from illegal title loans. State authorities had asked a court to remove the liens as part of a case brought against Autoloans LLC and other entities and individuals.

BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP – Executive John Brown said at his annual State of County Address that Northampton County is on sounder financial footing thanks to controls his administration has placed on spending over the past two years.During his annual speech at Northampton Community College, Brown told...