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‘Spreading like crazy’: Couple bringing restaurant chain’s 1st Pa. location to Airport Center

HANOVER TWP., Pa. – A new location of a rapidly growing, national restaurant chain is coming soon to a prominent shopping center in Lehigh County, and the husband-and-wife operators have plans to open additional locations throughout the Lehigh Valley. The first Pennsylvania location of Chicken Salad Chick, serving full
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‘Daddy stabbed mom’: Criminal complaint reveals new details, including son’s 911 call, in Allentown...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Police have released new details about Monday’s domestic stabbing, including a juvenile's 911 call that alerted officers to the alleged attack. Officers were dispatched around 2:34 p.m. to the 700 block of Saint John’s Street after a boy told dispatchers that “daddy stabbed mom,” according to the crimi
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Details emerge after father, son charged for explosive device detonated in Lehigh County

CATASAUQUA BOR. LEHIGH CO. (WOLF) — Pennsylvania State Police have filed multiple felony and misdemeanor charges against two Lehigh County men accused of throwing an explosive device from a moving pickup truck earlier this month in Catasauqua Borough. Investigators charged 56-year-old Matthew Pletz and his 24-year-old
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3 men exonerated after judge overturns 1997 murder convictions; 2 released and reunited with...

Three men are being released from prison after a judge overturned their convictions for the 1997 murder of 73-year-old Essie May Thomas.
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PA Lottery ticket worth $725,000 sold

(WHTM)– A jackpot-winning lottery ticket worth $725,000 was sold in Pennsylvania this week. A Cash 5 with Quick Cash ticket sold for the Monday, May 25, drawing in Lehigh County matched all five balls drawn, 3-4-8-21-31, to win the prize, according to the PA Lottery. A Friendly Food Mart in Slatington Borough will rece
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2 exotic animals from South Carolina find new home at Lehigh Valley Zoo

Lehigh Valley Zoo introduced two new residents to its ostrich and zebra habitat on May 14, both arriving from Riverbanks Zoo & Garden in Columbia, South Carolina, the zoo announced in a news release. Gabrielle, a 13-year-old female ostrich, and Forrest, a 10-year-old plains zebra, will join the Schnecksville zoo’s...
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Speeding drunken driver sentenced to prison for fatal Lehigh Valley crash

Devin Rorrer admits he shouldn’t have been driving the night he drank until his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit and plowed into another car in Bethlehem Township, killing a 67-year-old man. The 25-year-old was sentenced Thursday to three years and three months to 10 years in state...
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Help fight discrimination by joining new Northampton County commission

Discriminatory treatment tells its victims that they don’t matter and their voices aren’t heard, according to Northampton County Council member David Holland. He said he sees the effects of discrimination during his work as a psychiatric nurse, and it’s why he joined his colleagues in a unanimous vote to create a count
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Police ID man who was found dead in Little Neshaminy Creek in Pa.

Police identified a man who was found dead in Little Neshaminy Creek in Bucks County last Friday. On May 22, around 1:15 p.m., police, firefighters and medics responded to Easton Road north of the Creekview Shopping Center in Warrington Township, Pennsylvania, for a report of a man who had jumped into the Little Nesham
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Union Pacific ‘Big Boy’ train heads east toward Pa.

The Union Pacific "Big Boy" No. 4014 train is heading our way. Union Pacific announced today that the massive train is starting the eastern leg of its journey. It's on a coast-to-coast tour in honor of America's 250th anniversary. The train left its home base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Monday morning.

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