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ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A Lehigh Valley Phantoms employee whose team-assigned job title was “manager of fun” is in Lehigh County Jail on $100,000 bail, charged...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania State Police say they can start seizing skill-game machines on Oct. 14 and charge the businesses that keep them. From then on, the machines are illegal everywhere except licensed casinos and truck stops.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Bald Birds Brewing Company has paid $582,782 in back wages to 124 workers after state investigators found it paid staff late for several months and most recently left many without a paycheck for five weeks, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry said.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Gasoline pushed consumer prices up faster in August. Friday's federal inflation report landed as Lehigh Valley drivers were paying about 40 cents a gallon more than a month ago.

Clients seeking help from M.I.R.A. Resources, a Lehigh Valley nonprofit that connects migrants, immigrants, refugees and asylees with food, housing, legal help and ESL courses,...

BARTOW, Fla. — A Polk County jury on Thursday convicted Shaun Paul Runyon, a 44-year-old Nazareth electrician, of killing three coworkers, including his supervisor, Kevin Lanusse of Monroe County, at a Florida rental house in October 2021.

WASHINGTON — Ricky Joy recalled about 2.3 million Sour Crush Rolling Liquid Candy bottles Thursday because the ball on top can come loose and choke a child. The candy stayed on sale for more than two years after federal regulators urged sellers to stop selling that kind of candy.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A buyer financing a median-priced Lehigh Valley home would pay about $159 more a month in principal and interest than in late February. Freddie Mac said Thursday the average 30-year mortgage rate rose to 6.76 percent.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The Lehigh Valley IronPigs announced Thursday that their home ballpark will be renamed Jefferson Park beginning in the 2027 season, replacing the Coca-Cola name it has carried since the stadium opened in 2008.

EASTON, Pa. — Northampton County Executive Tara Zrinski asked a judge to quash or seal the grand jury report on Gracedale Nursing Home. The home's administrator argued through her lawyers that it should not be made public. Both positions are in responses filed with the report and released Thursday.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The planet just finished its warmest month in the instrumental record. The National Weather Service gauge at Lehigh Valley International Airport recorded an August half a degree cooler than normal.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Berks County Republican who wants Lake Erie renamed "Lake Pennsylvania" filed the paperwork Wednesday morning. As of Thursday, that paperwork is all there is.

DALLAS – President Donald Trump said Wednesday night that he will send $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans keep control of both chambers...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The Philadelphia Flyers open their 2026 rookie camp Friday with a practice at PPL Center, the first of five days of on-ice work that includes back-to-back games against New York Rangers prospects in downtown Allentown this weekend.

DALLAS — The first Republican midterm convention opens here at 4 p.m. Eastern today, and President Donald Trump's keynote is scheduled for 9 to 10 p.m. — roughly 40 minutes after the NFL kicks off its season on the other set of channels.

PHILADELPHIA — Brandon Graham said he is done playing football, closing out a 16-season career spent entirely with the Philadelphia Eagles and ending an offseason of speculation about a 17th.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Thousands of mail ballots were thrown out in Washington and Oregon this year for arriving or being postmarked too late, according to state data the two states' election officials presented in the past week — and Pennsylvania extends none of the leeway both of those states do: a ballot that reaches the county office after 8 p.m. on Election Day does not count, no matter when it was mailed.

PHILADELPHIA — The 76ers and Flyers put out the first renderings of their planned South Philadelphia arena Tuesday, showing a stacked, cantilevered building on the old Spectrum grounds that the teams say will open in 2030 as home to both franchises and the city's incoming WNBA expansion team.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed five proclamations Tuesday barring a long list of Canadian goods — most packaged alcohol, whey and molasses products, and motorcycles with engines over 800 cubic centimeters — from entering the United States at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 29.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Industrial electricity use in PPL Electric Utilities' service territory is projected to grow an average of 51.05% a year through 2030 — nearly triple the statewide industrial rate — under the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission's annual Electric Power Outlook, released Sept. 1.