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Bomb Squad Detonates LVH 'Suspicious' Package
Updated 10:30 a.m. The Allentown Bomb Squad detonated and "rendered safe" what appeared to be a "suspicious" package found Sunday night in a Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest parking lot, Salisbury...
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Teen Girls Sexually Assaulted, Court Records Say
A 20-year-old Allentown man was charged with sexually assaulting several teen-age girls in South Whitehall and Upper Macungie over the last two years, according to court documents. Ryan Mellowship, of...
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Wegmans Evacuates Customers During Fire Alarm
Workers accidently set off a fire alarm Monday at Wegmans on Tilghman Street, prompting a brief lunchtime evacuation of customers. Allentown firefighters showed up anyway but left the store after...
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$4.4M Rehab Center Opens in Lehigh County
Lehigh County officials and a former member of the Clinton administration cabinet took part Monday in opening the newLehigh County Center for Recoveryin Salisbury Township. Local residents will no...
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Boston Marathon: Rabbi Finishes Minutes Before Blasts
Congregation Keneseth Israel Rabbi Seth Phillips of South Whitehall finished the Boston Marathon Monday minutes before two explosions killed at least three and injured more than 130 people. Phillips,...
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Alex's Lemonade Stand Keeps Child's Dream Alive
About this sponsorship: In honor of the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary’s historic ascent of Mount Everest, Patch and Grape-Nuts are teaming up to highlight those who inspire people around them...
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Broad Street Run Will Have Heightened Security, Philly Mayor Says
The roughly 40,000 runners signed up for this year’s Independence Blue Cross Broad Street Run in Philadelphia on May 5 can expect to see a major increase in security in the wake of the Boston Marathon...
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'Saturday Night Live' Spoofs Toomey Gun Control Bill
An article in the National Journal calls U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Zionsville, Lehigh County an "unlikely savior" for gun control advocates and says that his agreement to expand background checks is the...
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'I Thought It Was Thunder,' Local Runner Says of Boston Marathon Blasts
Andrew Halloran finished the Boston Marathon Monday in a little over three hours. His sister Sarah hadn't yet finished her race, so he waited a block from the finish line with some other families. And...
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Woman Stole $24K from 'Ride for Adam,' DA Says
A Breinigsville woman has been charged with theft and other offenses for allegedly stealing $23,580 from the Ride for Adam, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office. Charmaine Lynn...
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'What If I Had Slowed Down?' Local Boston Marathon Runner Asks
Bone-weary and dehydrated, Boston Marathon runner Seth Phillips of South Whitehall had just passed Heartbreak Hill when he considered slowing down, even walking. At that moment, the 60-year-old saw a...
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$1.4M in Cuts to Drop Proposed Parkland Tax Hike to 2.73 Percent
The Parkland School Board was presented with a round of $1.474 million in additional budget cuts at Tuesday night's workshop meeting, which would reduce the proposed tax increase in the 2013-14 to...
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'Hell's Kitchen' Chef Jessica Gets Kicked Off
Chef Gordon Ramsay eliminated Jessica Lewis from South Whitehall Tuesday at the end of the seventh episode of "Hell's Kitchen." "When Jessica first arrived I had high expectations for her," Ramsay said...
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Last Week to See Flapper Fashions at Allentown Art Museum
The Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley is offering two special exhibitions that allow visitors to experience the colorful styles of the 1920s along with exotic, tropical scenes from the heart of...
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New Homes For Sale in South Whitehall This Week
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Parkland Mourns John R. Ritter, 62, Devoted Teacher [Obituary]
John R. Ritter, 62, of Neffs died April 16, 2013 at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, where he received the very best of care for complications related to a bone marrow transplant...
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Toomey Gun Control Amendment Fails in Senate
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey sounded unconcerned in a conference call Wednesday when a reporter asked about the possibility that his NRA rating would be downgraded because of his recent compromise move on gun...
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100s of Open Houses in Lehigh Valley This Weekend
The Lehigh Valley Association of Realtors (LVAR) will participte in Nationwide Open House on Saturday and Sunday with hundreds of real estate open houses scheduled across the Valley. Visit LVAR's...
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2 From Orefield Charged in International Meth Ring
A crystal methamphetamine ring, which stretched from Mexico to the Lehigh Valley and allegedly distributed $7 million worth of drugs over the past five years, has been broken up by state narcotics...
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