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BETHLEHEM — The business of reporting and producing the news has changed dramatically in the 21st century, a panel of local media leaders told an audience of about 300 Tuesday evening during a live taping of the "Business Matters" television show at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem.

A Coaches Code of Conduct enacted this year in the Southern Lehigh School District will get a new code added to the 18 already in place to allow common celebratory gestures.Apparently one common gesture, the high-five, had been taken as prohibited, but the new code allows for that gesture along...

LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP — Whole Foods Market wants to feature the products of local farmers and producers at its first store in the Lehigh Valley, opening this July at the Costco-anchored Hamilton Crossings shopping center.The upscale grocer is seeking produce, meat, seafood, body care and lifestyle...

BETHLEHEM – Bethlehem Water and Sewer Resources Director Ed Boscola said Tuesday that water tested at the Northeast Middle School meets federal standards for lead. The tests, which follow a WFMZ report claiming high levels of lead in water at Bethlehem school and two in Allentown, were taken at...

WILKES-BARRE (AP) — Prosecutors have withdrawn charges against a registered nurse who acknowledged drinking four or five beers in the hours before assisting an operation at a veterans' hospital in Pennsylvania. Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said Tuesday that she expected...

HANOVER TOWNSHIP, LEHIGH COUNTY —The Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority board voted to extend its life through at least 2051 Tuesday, in a compromise authority board members hope will be endorsed by Lehigh and Northampton counties.After months of sometimes-contentious discussions with county...

HARRISBURG — The improper filing of financial paperwork cost Marc Grammes a place on the GOP primary race ballot for 183rd District's state House seat. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tuesday affirmed the decision of Commonwealth Court President Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt to remove Grammes from the...

The man who spurred the legal inquiry into Lehigh Valley Health Network's charitable giving may also weigh in on the case, a judge has ruled.In a two-sentence order, Lehigh County Judge Brian Johnson granted permission to Robert Young, a retired Lehigh County judge himself, to file a friend-of-the-court...

EASTON – An elementary charter school for the arts has been proposed for the former Express-Times building on North Fourth Street in Easton. The kindergarten through fifth grade charter school would occupy all three floors of the former newspaper office, said Thomas Lubben, who has shepherded arts...

BETHLEHEM — City Council is pushing back against an administration bid to restrict swimming and wading in the Saucon and Monocacy creeks as part of a larger effort to curtail crowding, littering and noise at city parks. While council's Parks and Public Property Committee voted unanimously Monday...