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The bill would require every public and private school to bar students from using their phones all day, lunch and hallways included, starting in the 2027-28 school year. Only three of the Valley's 17 school districts already go that far in every grade, their policies show.
The return ends a stretch in which Giant's stores, including 15 in Lehigh and Northampton counties, stayed open while the chain pointed online shoppers to DoorDash, Instacart and Uber Eats. Two of the deals Giant offered during the outage end Thursday, and Ahold Delhaize's investigation of the attack is still open.
A judge's ruling at a preliminary hearing Tuesday sends the homicide case against Daniel Latorre Jr. to Lehigh County Court. Court records show he is due there Dec. 10 at 1:30 p.m. for formal arraignment before Judge Douglas G. Reichley.
"We will automatically extend any points that were set to expire on 10/31 to be good through 11/30," Giant spokesperson Ashley Flower said in a statement. "This will reflect in customers’ account balance on 11/1, and no action is required from the customer."
The expansion follows what ArtsQuest called a record-breaking year: 145,552 visitors in 2025, nearly 14% more than the year before. That works out to about 128,000 in 2024. The igloos, introduced last year, sold out on most weekends, ArtsQuest said, and 192 families and groups used them.
Sam Jellinek, the IronPigs' manager of broadcasting and media relations, confirmed the time in an email. The show's Facebook page announced the closer Oct. 18, writing: “Looking forward to getting everyone back together again.”
Davis was pronounced dead at 5:20 p.m. Saturday at St. Luke's University Hospital, nine days after the shooting, Coroner Daniel A. Buglio said in a release Monday. Davis died of gunshot injuries, the coroner said, and an autopsy was scheduled for Monday.
Sheila McDonald, 46, of Pittsburgh, was responsible for securing the Electronic Benefit Transfer cards created and mailed by the office, with access to recipients’ dates of birth and Social Security numbers, according to a joint news release. The release said 48 cards she activated were used more than 270 times for $20,558.61 in benefits, or about $428 a card.
The team's opening-week fan events are all in Philadelphia, and none of the bars on its 76ers Bar Network page is in the Lehigh Valley. Closer to home, the downtown Allentown bar and two restaurant chains are marking the start of the season.
Crumbl's store list shows 1,050 locations today, down from 1,106 in a copy of the page the Internet Archive saved Jan. 7. In that time, 79 stores came off the list and 23 were added.
The study found Bethlehem's two- and three-person fire crews leave the department short of the firefighters a serious building fire demands, and three trucks run with no officer in charge. Its staffing plan would cost about $3.1 million a year. The city has not said which parts it will pursue.
The loss does not count toward the Patriot League title. Lehigh is alone in first place at 4-0, a game ahead of Richmond and Colgate in the league standings, and still plays both. The league champion earns an automatic bid to the FCS playoffs. Lehigh plays next on Oct. 24 at Villanova.
"While we get back up and running, we're happy to offer 10% off your in-store purchase, up to $10," the Carlisle-based chain said in a video it posted on Facebook Friday. The video tells shoppers to ask the cashier to apply the discount at checkout.
The Swiss company Bolliger & Mabillard built both Candymonium and Goliath, the coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. Six Flags said it temporarily closed nine similar coasters at six of its other parks after Monday's death, and Georgia investigators have not said what caused it.
Axel Suarez Vidal, 25, was also convicted of three counts of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury and seven counts of recklessly endangering another person, District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan's office said in a release Friday. He faces a possible sentence of 44 to 88 years in state prison.
The clinic, which the office calls its fourth annual, is run with Lehigh Valley Health Network and comes about two weeks before the health network's own free drive-thru clinics in the Lehigh Valley. It also doubles as an open house for the office that investigates county deaths.
The office said the panel comes as the county has seen several recent homicide cases connected to domestic violence, though its announcement Friday did not name them.
The $32 million, five-story building at 25 W. Third St. rose on the site of the former Banana Factory, and ArtsQuest broke ground in June 2025 on plans for 36 artist studios. Neither the release nor ArtsQuest's studio program page says what a studio costs, but on our May 14 tour of the building, rent was given as $1.40 per square foot per month, or about $420 for an average 300-square-foot studio.
It will be the third straight year the traveling show has stopped in Allentown, and the first time in spring. The two games are the earliest of the tour's four 2027 stops in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, months before it reaches Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Aug. 27-28, according to the tour's online schedule.
Applications can be filed online at vote.pa.gov until 11:59 p.m. Oct. 19, according to a state Department of State release. Applications that are mailed or delivered in person must be received at a county elections office by close of business that day.