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BETHLEHEM — City Council on Tuesday backed the sale of a historic silk mill, a purchase that would pave the way for the fire-damaged structure to be redeveloped as 89 apartments. Council needed to sign off on the sale because the city's Redevelopment Authority had sold a parking lot for the project...

Lehigh Valley Health Network has begun enrolling patients for clinical trials made possible under its newly minted partnership with the top-ranked Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York. After six months of intensive preparation, LVHN announced Tuesday it has been formally admitted...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's epic porn email scandal has upended the high court again.State Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin retired Tuesday rather than continue fighting allegations he broke judicial canon rules and sullied the court's reputation by receiving and sending smutty and racially...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unseasonably warm weather has prompted the National Park Service to revise its prediction for peak blooms for Washington's cherry blossom trees.The agency said in a recent news release that it has revised the projected dates to March 18-23. Peak bloom is when 70 percent of the...

WHITEHALL — The Whitehall Township Planning Commission will hear Wednesday night from the German discount grocery chain aggressively planting roots in the U.S. with plans to build on one of the last empty commercially zoned parcels along MacArthur Road.Lidl US LLC is seeking to build a store on...

Pubs in general have a bad rep for focusing too much on the beer and slacking in the food department. But Porters' Pub in Easton has found a perfect balance. Three brothers named Porter — Jeff, Ken and Larry — opened the pub in 1990 after extensively rehabbing a dilapidated 1833 building at Seventh...

The folks at Holy Trinity Orthodox Catholic Church in Catasauqua make a lot of dough with their annual paska bread sale.More than 200 loaves of bread worth.The church in North Catasauqua has been carrying on the yearly Easter tradition of making paska bread for a long time, even if it was simply...

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak is airing his first television ad, launching a minute-long spot that emphasizes his military career. Featuring shots of veterans and others holding signs that read, "Joe's got your six," a military term that references having someone's back, the ad also...

MILFORD (AP) — Lawyers for a survivalist charged with fatally ambushing a Pennsylvania state police trooper outside a rural barracks asked Tuesday for his trial to be moved out of the area, citing extensive publicity about the case.Eric Frein can't get a fair trial in Pike County, in the Pocono...

— Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski abruptly halted his U.S. Senate campaign in July, and his attorney suspects he'll be indicted over a federal probe of city contracting practices. Yet in hypothetical matchups against Republican incumbent Sen. Pat Toomey, Pawlowski did nearly as well as three Democrats...