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Berks County: I-78 road work
PennDOT has scheduled the following road work: ________________________________________ County: Berks Municipality: Hamburg ROAD NAME: Interstate 78 Ramp at Exit 30 (Hamburg) Type of Work: Drainage Work being Done By: PENNDOT Maintenance Forces...Tags: Lehigh County, Road Transportation, Travel, Transportation
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Round one brings inch of rain to Lehigh Valley
Slightly more than an inch of rain has fallen over the Lehigh Valley since severe thunderstorms began arriving about 6 a.m. Thursday. A severe thunderstorm watch issued for the Lehigh Valley, Berks County and Philadelphia regions expired at 11 a.m,...
Tags: U.S. Open (golf), Lehigh Valley Weather, National Weather Service, Floods
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Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka and the mysterious death of Nancy Argentino
Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka had just walked into his Whitehall hotel room, where a beautiful young woman lay in his bed. It wasn't unusual for Snuka, a married man, to spend the night with his girlfriend, Nancy Argentino. But on this night, after the...
Tags: Whitehall, Allentown, WrestleMania, Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.
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Local professionals sanctioned by licensing boards
Watchdog with Paul MuschickThese disciplinary and licensing actions were announced recently by Pennsylvania's licensing boards against professionals who live and work in the Lehigh Valley area. The information is taken verbatim from the PA Department of State's website, where you... -
June 10, 1863: Arrest of Copperhead angers The Allentown Democrat
One of the North's most powerful anti-war figures, Clement Vallandigham, of Ohio, was arrested on May 5, 1863, for his outspoken rejection of the Union's cause. Speaking against President Lincoln and the war effort, Vallandigham, who was a member of the...
Tags: Allentown, Local Elections, Abraham Lincoln, Alburtis, Punishment
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Gun pulled on family in road rage incident
A passenger in a car traveling north on Route 222 from Berks County to Lehigh County pointed a handgun at a family in a vehicle in a road rage incident reported about 8 p.m. Sunday, Upper Macungie Township police said. The victims told police a male...Tags: Kutztown, Lehigh County, Macungie
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Battery recycler Exide's problems aren't just local
Since she was 13, Tiffany Arroyo lived with the smoke and rotten-egg smell from an Exide battery-recycling plant just blocks from her grandparents' home in Laureldale, Pa. "It was horrible, just horrible, to go outside and smell it," Arroyo, now 30,...
Tags: Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health, Economy, Business and Finance, Environmental Issues
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Cash 5 lottery ticket worth $500,000 sold in Birdsboro
A Cash 5 lottery ticket worth $500,000 from Saturday's drawing was sold in Berks County at a Sunoco convenience store at 235 N. Furnace St. in Birdsboro. The ticket matched all five balls, 16-28-30-31-42, for the $1 million lottery. Another ticket...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Sunoco Incorporated, Lotteries, Dauphin County, Middletown
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State Farm Women president believes in Christian heritage of farm women
Farm, Field & Garden CorrespondentIt's hard to imagine that the Pennsylvania Society of Farm Women started simple in Somerset County in 1914 — then spread like wildfire across the state into a force of women who made a difference in the past 99 years. Next year, will be the 100th...Tags: Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Franklin County (Pennsylvania), The Pennsylvania State University
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Lehigh Valley company news
Responsible Recyclingreceives DEP permit Responsible Recycling Services in Kutztown received a Department of Environmental Protection general permit on March 8. The permit allows the processing of e-waste to take place at the facility. Responsible...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Kutztown, Northampton (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Bucks County, Business
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Don't let travel clubs take you for a ride
Memorial Day is here, and summer vacation season soon will be in full swing. I don't have to tell you how expensive vacations can be. If you're like me, you're always looking for ways to cut the cost without reducing the fun. If you think joining a...Tags: Whitehall, Allentown, Travel Deals, Punishment, Air Transportation Industry
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Police briefs - May 15
Reading, Pa., man charged with rape is taken into custody WAYNESBORO, Pa. — A man charged with rape in Berks County, Pa., was taken into custody in Waynesboro on Tuesday morning, Waynesboro police said in a news release. Police said Keyen...Tags: Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Prosecution, Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Theft
Jun 15, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
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May 29, 2013
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May 30, 2013
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May 29, 2013
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May 29, 2013
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May 25, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 15, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
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