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An analysis by the Anti-Defamation League found that 2025 was the third-most violent year on record for American Jews. The ADL report underscores the high level of violence...
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Legislation before the Pennsylvania House would let the Game Commission authorize deer baiting on private property beyond the Southeast Special Regulations Area. The move would expand where hunters...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
The Notre Dame-Green Pond High School softball team opened up a four-run lead and clinched a 4-1 home victory over Northern Lehigh on Friday afternoon. The win in...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
Cleaning out a cluttered notebook after two busy (and sometimes watery) days of Colonial League track and field championships: Southern Lehigh took the girls team crown. The roundup...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
Tomatoes are the most commonly grown vegetable for home gardeners. There are several staking and support options — varying in difficulty — that gardeners can use to prevent...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
Readers are invited to vote for the best catcher in Pennsylvania high school baseball for 2026. Last week, PennLive featured some of the top catchers around the state...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
Reba McEntire, 71, has enjoyed a long career in country music, television and film and is considering whether to slow down. As she prepares to marry longtime boyfriend...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
On a windy evening the writer watched silver maple samaras—winged "helicopter" seeds—blowing around and raises the question of whether they are edible. The piece also notes that the...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
A couple adopted their daughter when she was roughly one week old after an agency selected them; the birth mother, who arrived at the hospital on drugs and...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
Phillipsburg built an early lead and held off top-seeded Delaware Valley in the H/W/S semifinals on Friday. Freshman first baseman Madelyn Hoadley blasted a three-run home run in...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
A medically retired woman, often confined to her room because of a disability, says a cat would greatly improve her mood. She previously had a beloved cat, Miss...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
PennLive garden writer George Weigel highlights a sunflower as his Plant Pick of the Week. The bushy plants bloom nonstop throughout the summer, and a single specimen can...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
PennDOT maintenance crews will conduct work on multiple roads throughout Northampton County from Sunday, May 10 through Friday, May 15. Motorists should expect lane restrictions on Route 22,...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
Country music star Mark Chesnutt was reportedly ‘bleeding out from the inside’ and nearly died when doctors said he had just two days to live as his organs,...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
Every morning the writer picks up their son’s neighborhood friend for the drive to school; the friend is polite and respectful in all ways except for eating bagels...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
A reader says a friend of 50 years visited recently and their time together seemed normal, but afterward the friend sent a letter ending the relationship and described...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
Country and blues singer Nat Myers, 35, has spent the past year publicly battling a rare form of cancer. After being told at one point he had less...
allentown / lehighvalleylive
Jaxson Kreider changed the course of Friday’s Colonial League quarterfinal with one swing, sparking the Bangor Slaters to a victory over Notre Dame. The win was Bangor’s sixth...