Profession: Practice manager, pediatric dentistry What I'm reading: ''Resilience'' by Elizabeth Edwards How is it? Not what I was expecting, but I am enjoying it; she is a very strong, admirable woman.
With 60 percent of the vote, Republican Steven Serfass defeated Democrat Carole Wildoner Walbert Tuesday to become Carbon County judge, according to unofficial returns.
Italian food is a favorite cuisine of many, especially when it comes to pizza. One reader is hoping others can help out with a good recipe for pizza dough.
Anthony ''Tony'' Locascio ended up in a remote area of Schuylkill County, left to die wearing only boxer shorts after being beaten and bloodied with metal baseball bats, because he was a snitch, a state police trooper testified Friday.
The closing day of the Rock The Fall festival at Blue Mountain Ski Area pretty good performers in its headliners Sunday, but the best singer was the show's opener.
High winds swept through the Lehigh Valley on Wednesday, jostling vehicles and pedestrians, and shaking down enough trees to impede traffic and knock out power in isolated areas.
As cable companies try to balance the demand for high-definition channels and the desires of customers who prefer cheaper analog service, two area companies have decided to straddle the fence -- for as long as they can.
Jackie Galley In the Palmerton Area School District, students and parents are upset by a new dress-code ban on body piercings and unusually colored hair.
Country music singer Randy Houser, who is scheduled to headline the closing night of the Rock The Fall festival at Blue Mountain Ski Area near Palmerton in a little over two weeks, canceled an appearance Tuesday because he was sick with a "really bad" throat infection, a spokeswoman said.
Imagine, for a strictly hypothetical moment, that teachers and other authority figures in the Palmerton Area School District showed up for school wearing T- shirts that exercised their First Amendment free expression rights.