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Purple martins have nested at St. Luke’s Anderson Campus for the second straight year. The birds’ return heralds the establishment of a new, perennial colony within the expansive greenspace at the Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township. Purple Martins, which migrate northward from as far south as the Amazon...

A weekend Pennsylvania State Police DUI enforcement checkpoint netted three DUI arrests and an additional “criminal” arrest, according to a news release. The checkpoint ran from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Friday, June 12, and Saturday, June 13, in the 1600 block of Broadway in Salisbury Township, the release says.

RICHLAND TWP., Pa. (EYT) — Pennsylvania State Police say no one was injured following a single-vehicle accident on Route 58 in Richland Township earlier this month. According to a report by Pennsylvania State Police in Clarion, the crash occurred on June 5 at 7:16 p.m. on Route 58, near Legion Lane in Clarion County.

More than 100 people lined the perimeter of the building early in the morning June 4 to welcome Wawa to Allen Township. Wawa opened its store at 10 Stonegate Drive, near the intersection of Nor-Bath Boulevard and Savage Road, with a grand opening and ribbon-cutting celebration. The first 100 people...

When retiree Bill Bertolotti moved to the Village at Fox Crossing, he finally found a home he could afford to buy. Residents in the manufactured home community in Forks Township own the homes they live in, but not the land the homes rest on. They found themselves anxiously awaiting the...

FORKS TWP., Pa. - Forks Township Police and EMS crews responded to a fatal shooting just after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Northampton County dispatchers said the incident happened in the 1400 block of Derhammer Street. According to dispatchers, one person suffered a gunshot wound and was taken to a local hospital,...

A Perkasie man has admitted in court that he sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl he met on Snapchat, telling a judge he carried on a monthslong sexual relationship with the child, according to court records. The defendant, 20-year-old Kenton Exner, entered a guilty plea Monday in Bucks County Common Pleas Court and

PALMER TWP., Pa. - Police in Palmer Township, Northampton County are looking for a man they say exposed himself to multiple girls Friday. The man exposed himself on the Palmer Township bike path near Fairview Park, according to a news release from the Palmer Township Police Department. Officers were sent...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Nokia will expand its photonics plant in Allentown, nearly doubling its local workforce to more than 500 jobs and increasing production capacity... The post Nokia to expand Allentown photonics plant, add jobs in $30 million project backed by Shapiro appeared first on LehighDaily.com .

A new policy would prohibit Lehigh County employees from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during enforcement operations, the county's Executive Josh Siegel announced Tuesday. During a news conference on June 16, Siegel explained the details of his proposed legislation, which he said aim