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ALLENTOWN — A proposed referendum that would have asked Allentown voters to place a term limit on the city's mayor has been pulled from Allentown City Council's agenda. The ballot question, which proposes limiting all city mayors to two terms in office, was set to be introduced on Wednesday during...

HARRISBURG — Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday blasted the latest budget plan to be advanced by Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania's eight-month partisan battle that has left billions of dollars in limbo and schools and universities warning of closures. Wolf said in an interview on KQV-AM radio...

JOHNSTOWN (AP) — Three leaders of a Franciscan religious order were charged Tuesday with allowing a friar who was a known sexual predator to take on jobs, including a position as a high school athletic trainer, that enabled him to molest more than 100 children. Giles Schinelli, 73; Robert D'Aversa,...

The greater Lehigh Valley's unemployment rate continues to fall.The Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metropolitan statistical area posted a seasonally adjusted jobless rate of 4.4 percent in January, the state said Tuesday. That's down two-tenths of a percentage point from December and 1 percentage point...

BETHLEHEM — The Bethlehem Area School Board is looking into renewing a contract with a substitute teacher organization that has given the district up to a 96 percent fill-in rate recently. At Monday's Human Resources Committee meeting, the district discussed renewing the contract with Substitute...

All-day kindergarten will get a one year tryout in the Southern Lehigh School District in the 2016-2017 school year, but will be available to a limited number of students who do not meet minimum learning standards.The program will be open to 24 to 30 students entering kindergarten at Hopewell and...

WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP — Teachers in the Whitehall-Coplay School District will get a raise of 2.35 percent as part of a new one-year contract approved by the school board Monday night.The collective bargaining agreement with the Whitehall-Coplay Education Association also calls for the elimination...

WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP — Woody Allen said 80 percent of success is showing up. Whitehall Township can't seem to get its Parks and Recreation Board to do just that.On Monday, Mayor Ed Hozza Jr. told the township commissioners that the Parks and Recreation Board has not been able to get a quorum at its...

A Lafayette College senior will go spatula to spatula against three other college students with serious culinary chops on a special episode of Food Network's "Chopped" at 10 p.m. Tuesday.Drew Friedman of Port Washington, N.Y., will compete on "Chopped: College" in the reality competition in which...

NAZARETH — Alexis Dudeck, a Nazareth Area High School senior, broke into tears when revealing during Monday's school board meeting just how much the district, which she's only called home for a year, has come to mean to her.She said she has faced difficulties and found solace among the teachers...