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Famed Parkettes coach permanently banned from teaching, SafeSport rules; second former coach suspended
John Holman and Robin Netwall were the subject of investigations over allegations of abusive behavior toward students at the renowned Allentown gymnastics center.
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Trash and tension mount in Philadelphia on Day 8 of workers strike, while some seek pop-up haulers
“This is not a free pass for illegal dumping around the city of Philadelphia,” Carlton Williams, director of the city’s Office of Clean and Green Initiatives, said Monday.
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Phillies prospects handling trade deadline noise: ‘You could be gone tomorrow’
Six years ago, a Class-A teammate joked with current IronPigs outfielder Cal Stevenson that he could be 'gone tomorrow.' Stevenson laughed it off. He was gone the next day.
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Venture into Bethlehem museum’s vault and explore 100 years of dollhouse craftsmanship
Bethlehem’s Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts is offering a peek behind the miniature curtains of one of the country’s largest antique dollhouse collections this summer.
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![Lehigh Valley IronPigs President and General Manager Kurt Landes presents boxing legend Larry Holmes and Easton Mayor Sal Panto Jr. with IronPigs jerseys Tuesday, July 8, 2025, during the reveal of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs’ Easton City Series uniforms to be worn Aug. 7 when the IronPigs host the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown. (Monica Cabrera/The Morning Call)]( "TMC-L-EastonCitySeriesUniforms13-e1752011875783")
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Lehigh Valley IronPigs’ Easton City Series uniforms are revealed in Easton’s Centre Square today. Boxing legend Larry Holmes and Easton Mayor Sal Panto Jr. were there to check them out. -
![Keith Wolfe stands in front of the hundred-year-old converted Allentown home he owns Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Wolfe is restoring it, keeping historical elements, with plans to possibly turn the building into office space. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call)]( "TMC-L-Lindenbuilding-19")
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![Actors from the Bachmann Group participate Friday, July 4, 2025, in a reenactment of the original reading of the Declaration of Independence at the George Taylor House in Catasauqua. Taylor was a signer of the declaration and his home was one of the first places where the document was read to the public after being signed in Philadelphia in 1776. (Oliver Lois Economidis/The Morning Call)]( "TMC-L-georgetaylor-0705013")
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![Flash flooding is seen Thursday evening, July 3, 2025, in the area of Santee Road in Bethlehem Township. (Rich Rolen/Special to The Morning Call)]( "TMC-L-FlashFloodSantee-0704-04")
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![People walk through lines of colorful cars Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Bear Creek Mountain Resort in Longswamp Township. Bear Creek kicked off the Independence Day holiday celebrations early with a free concert, fireworks and Dadapalooza car show. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call)]( "TMC-L-EarlyCelebration-02")
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![Nurture Nature Center’s docent Jeff Mucklin explains how a smiley face fireworks is made with different chemicals that burn different colors in a mortar Wednesday, July 2, 2025, during an event hosted by Nurture Nature Center on how pyrotechnicians make rockets, fountains and explosions at Hackett Park in Easton. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call)]( "TMC-L-FireworksScienceProgram-01")
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Opinion: Let patients choose their doctors, not politicians
Opinion: Politicians in Washington want to block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood
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Motorcyclist, 29, killed in crash on Route 22 in Easton identified
A 29-year-old Bethlehem man and father of four died in a crash Saturday on Route...
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Trump’s previous tariff push terrified the world economy. He’s betting this time is different
He told his Cabinet that past presidents who hadn’t aggressively deployed tariffs were “stupid.”
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Warren Hills grad is Coast Guard hero who saved 165 people in Texas flooding
Scott Ruskan, a Rider University graduate and Coast Guard rescue swimmer, is credited with rescuing...
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Today in History: July 9, 14th Amendment ratified
The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, granting citizenship and “equal protection under...
Allentown
New Building 21 focus is just one part of Allentown School District’s investment in AI. Here’s what the future holds
Renaming Building 21 as Bridgeview Academy and shifting its focus to artificial intelligence, healthcare and...
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Argument led to Fountain Hill triple shooting, police say; 18-year-old suspect identified
The suspect charged with shooting three people in Fountain Hill on Friday night has been...