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What roads and bridges will PennDOT work on in the Lehigh Valley this year? Here’s a list

PennDOT will improve more than 197 miles of road and 77 bridges in the Lehigh Valley region. The total investment in the six-county area is more than $1.2 billion.

Traffic is backed up Thursday, April 23, 2026, at the Hill to Hill Bridge on Route 378 in Bethlehem. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call)

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Traffic is backed up Thursday, April 23, 2026, at the Hill to Hill Bridge on Route 378 in Bethlehem. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call)

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Southern California wide receiver Makai Lemon poses after being chosen by the Philadelphia Eagles with the 20th overall pick during the first round of the NFL football draft, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

NFL draft: Eagles move up, select wide receiver Makai Lemon of USC with their first pick

A poll worker holds voting stickers for community members Nov. 7, 2023, at Central Elementary School in Allentown. (Matt Smith/For Spotlight PA)

Want to help on Election Day? Here’s how to become a poll worker in Lehigh or Northampton County

This illustration picture shows icons of Google’s AI (Artificial Intelligence) app BardAI (or ChatBot) (C-L), OpenAI’s app ChatGPT (C-R) and other AI apps on a smartphone screen on July 12, 2023. (Olivier Morin/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Lehigh Valley lawmaker part of effort to take on Big Tech, propose chatbot protections for teens

Lehigh County man killed in tractor-trailer crash on I-78, police say

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Southern California wide receiver Makai Lemon poses on the red carpet before the first round of the NFL football draft, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Eagles first pick of 2026 NFL draft is Makai Lemon of USC [Photos]

Makai Lemon was the first pick of the Philadelphia Eagles in the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft Thursday night.

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Allen's Jorge Inoa (8), seen in action last week against Liberty, allowed just four hits over six innings but couldn't quite get the win against Parkland Wednesdsay night. The game ended in a 6-6 tie after 9 innings and will pick up where it left off next week. (Jonathan Broady/Special to The Morning Call)

Lehigh Valley baseball/softball: Allen, Parkland baseball play 9 innings, game ends in a tie thanks to curfew

Allen and Parkland will have to get back together again to finish a game stopped by curfew, tied at 6

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Southern troops led by Rick Eisenhart, of Hellertown, as Friends of Camp Geiger hold the 8th annual Lehigh Valley Civil War Days at the Whitehall Parkway Recreational Area to commemorate the waning of the Civil War and the 150th anniversary of the battles at Fort Stedman and Appomattox, which took place in spring 1965. -//// MICHAEL KUBEL / The Morning Call —- Sunday June 14, 2015

Things to do in the Lehigh Valley this weekend: Wheels in your neighborhood, an Oscar winner and a trip to wartime history

Here are your best bets for fun this weekend around the Lehigh Valley.

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement helps give directions to a at George Bush Intercontinental Airport on March 27, 2026, in Houston during the partial government shutdown. (Antranik Tavitian/Getty Images)

Letters to the Editor: Lehigh County officials are unfairly attacking ICE agents with effort to not hire them

Letters: ICE agents are hardworking, patriotic Americans who keep us safe.

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Photos of suspects in Operation “Gangsta’s Paradise” are displayed following a federal press conference announcing the results of a Thursday morning takedown of Orange County-based gang members on April 23, 2026, at the Ronald Reagan Federal Building in Santa Ana. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)

25 with alleged ties to Mexican Mafia arrested in Southern California gang sweep

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Capital One settlement: How to know if you’re eligible for payout

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Lawmakers, Shapiro admin push to end practice of counties taking Social Security money owed to foster kids

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In this May 18, 2017 photograph, a marker commemorates wade-ins in the 1950s and 1960s by African-Americans to integrate the public beaches in Biloxi, Miss. The current mayor of Biloxi, Republican Andrew “FoFo” Gilich, recently ordered that the Mississippi state flag be removed from display at city buildings because it contains the Confederate battle emblem that he said could make some residents and visitors feel unwelcome. (AP Photo / Emily Wagster Pettus)

Today in History: April 24, ‘wade-in’ protest at whites-only beach sets off rioting

Rioting erupted in Biloxi, Mississippi, after Black protesters staging a “wade-in” at a whites-only beach...

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Allentown man arrested in 2025 Catasauqua ‘quick draw’ homicide

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The Visitor’s Center at the SteelStacks, pictured in 2013. (DENISE SANCHEZ/THE MORNING CALL)

CountryFest, a new free country music festival, coming this summer to SteelStacks

CountryFest, Artsquest's new country music festival, will be held Aug. 21-22 at SteelStacks in Bethlehem.

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