07/15/11 Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum raised just $582,347 in the second quarter of the year, reaching the mid-year point with just $229,114 in his campaign warchest.
07/15/11 A Franklin County, Pa., lawmaker who chairs the Pennsylvania Senate Game and Fisheries Committee said he expects to ask his fellow committee members to vote on lifting a 138-year ban on Sunday hunting in the state. While state Sen. Richard Alloway doesn't personally support allowing hunting on Sundays, he said he made a promise to allow the committee members to be heard. Before the Pennsylvania ...
07/15/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press EASTON, Pa. A massive fire has broken out at a plastics recycling plant in eastern Pennsylvania, sending a giant plume of black smoke into the air. Firefighters have been battling the blaze at National Plastics & Manufacturing Co. near Easton since late Friday morning. Company foreman Jose Maury tells the Express-Times of Easton that the flames started ...
07/15/11 A pipeline company is defending its plan for a 39-mile natural gas line in northern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains region.
07/15/11 ALLENTOWN -- Federal environmental regulators are questioning the rationale of a proposed 39-mile natural gas pipeline that opponents have said would damage 600 acres of pristine forests and streams in northern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains region.
07/09/11 Taylor Swift's income stalled at $45 million in the past 12 months, but her Web presence and social media rank make her the seventh-most powerful person in all of entertainment, Forbes magazine says.
07/09/11 SCOTT KRAUS The (Allentown) Morning Call ALLENTOWN, Pa. Each spring when the weather begins to warm, Allentown Parks Director Greg Weitzel starts getting the phone calls. They usually go like this: Caller: "S-s-s-nakes . there are s-s-snakes in the park." Don't worry, he tells them. None of them are dangerous. How can he be sure? He's checked with Abby Pattishall, the Wildlands Conservancy's ...
07/09/11 U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Allentown, said some sorts of federal spending are necessary, such as improvements to infrastructure "assets" like locks and dams on area rivers.
07/09/11 The bankruptcy of a downtown Buffalo real estate investor and developer has led to the foreclosure sale of three of his properties on Franklin Street and Delaware Avenue for $568,093.
07/08/11 His 20 national championships included the team pursuit in 1984, which contributed to his being chosen for the U.S. squad that competed in the Los Angeles Games. Mark Whitehead, a member of the U.S. track cycling team that participated in blood doping during the 1984 Summer Olympics, creating a scandal that led to the practice being banned from the sport, has died. He was 50.
07/02/11 TIMES NEWS FILE PHOTO Former Lehighton resident Maynard Hill inspects model aircraft, which he called the "Spirit of Butts Farm" before flying it across the Atlantic Ocean and setting at least two international flying records in 2003. The plane had a wing span of six feet and weighed under 11 pounds.
07/02/11 One person was injured when a car crashed into a pole in South Whitehall Township, Lehigh County just before midnight Friday.
07/02/11 We're taking a look at the stories making headlines this week in the 69 News Week in Review.
07/02/11 If Ronald Cruz felt any additional pressure to perform in front of a home crowd at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, he didn't show it Friday night.
06/27/11 Burglary Robert Straight IV, 18, of North Fourth Street, Perkasie, and Andrew Quici, 18, of Hopwood Drive, Warminster, were charged June 18 with burglary and related offenses when they were captured soon after a burglary at Village Market on S. Main Street in Sellersville, Perkasie Borough Police Department said.
06/26/11 Five years after it last was held, the FallOut Christian music and activities festival officially starts its revival under the guidance of Allentown's Mayfair festival at noon Monday, when tickets go on sale.
06/26/11 ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania: Two unexpected gushers in northeastern Pennsylvania are helping to illustrate the enormous potential of the Marcellus Shale natural gas field.
06/26/11 ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Two unexpected gushers in northeastern Pennsylvania are helping to illustrate the enormous potential ofthe Marcellus Shale natural gas field.
06/26/11 A crash in the southbound lanes of the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike caused lingering traffic problems Sunday afternoon.
06/22/11 There are still no final figures for what about 100 Tylersport property owners will have to pay for the coming new public sewer system, but the estimates at a June 15 Salford Township Board of Supervisors meeting have both residents and township officials looking for ways to lessen the more than $20,000 jolt to the wallet. | 
