In revitalized Allentown, many still seeking work

President Barack Obama talked about his ideas for job creation in a city whose very name conjures Rust Belt images of shuttered factories, high unemployment and persistent hopelessness.

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Explosion damages 3 homes in Allentown, Pa.

An explosion shook a neighborhood of single-family homes Tuesday afternoon, injuring two brothers, rattling buildings a mile away and hurling a wheelchair 40 feet high into a tree.

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In pursuit of an Eagle Scout badge, Kevin Anderson, 17, has toiled for more than 200 hours hours over several weeks to clear a walking path in an east Allentown park.

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The president has laid out a paradigm-shifting agenda. There will be pushback from the GOP—but less, perhaps, were it not for the House Speaker. More Articles

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ELBERT COUNTY, Colo. -- The horses at Tom Johnson and Jim Hoff's place once had tails that hung down to their hooves. Shampooed and combed, their flaxen color gleamed when the Belgian draft horses drew wagons for children and pranced in parades.

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"I used to think Los Angeles had terrible air quality, but Beijing blew me away," Lea told The Morning Call last month.

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Fix planned for I-78 near Allentown

A stretch of Interstate 78 between Cedar Crest and Hamilton Boulevard is on the radar for repairs by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Read more with a news link at Allentown News...

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Allentown police had suspected William Torres of dealing drugs in the city. But an undercover narcotics investigation yielded much more, and resulted in Torres, 21, being charged early Saturday with two counts of homicide.

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Puerto Rican community complains first choice was offensive

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Staff at a city high school used markers to black out a picture of a male student kissing his boyfriend from all copies of the school's yearbook before they were distributed to students this week

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John Acerra was a longtime teacher and principal in the Bethlehem Area School District -- and, police say, a drug dealer who tried to sell crystal methamphetamine from his school office.

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A school was accused of covering up the assault of a 1st grader by a 12-year old, keeping him in school and ultimately resulting in the sexual assault of three more 1st graders.

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School hid rapes of four 1st-graders ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Teachers and administrators at Central Elementary School knew they had a problem with F.H., a 12-year-old who had been accused of going into a bathroom stall and sexually assaulting a first-grade boy.

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A man who reportedly believed Republicans were conspiring to steal today's election entered an Allentown polling site, signed in and proceeded to smash the screen of one of the electronic voting machines with a metal cat paperweight, poll volunteers said.

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Plans for a $34 million minor league ballpark in east Allentown got the go-ahead from the city Planning Commission on Tuesday.

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