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Shop, tap and go: Lehigh Valley supermarket debuts ‘smart’ carts that allow customers to skip the checkout line
A Lehigh Valley grocery story is experimenting with a shopping cart that senses what customers add and determines the cost, letting them shop without ever needing to put items on a conveyer belt.
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Hotel Bethlehem again nominated for the Best Historic Hotel/Resort in America | PHOTOS
Hotel Bethlehem hosts an event to announce its “5 Star Search” on Monday, July 7, 2025. The hotel has won USA Today’s 10Best Historic Hotel award for four consecutive years.
Sports
2025 Softball Coach of the Year: Nazareth’s Genzale kept the Blue Eagles moving forward
Even after heartbreaking losses in the league and district title games, Stephen Genzale kept Nazareth pushing forward all the way to the state finals
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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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![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")
Linden Street building gets makeover keeping historical elements | PHOTOS
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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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![Community members march Friday, July 4, 2025, in the Annual Nazareth Kazoo Parade in Nazareth. (Amy Shortell/The Morning Call)]( "tmc-L-Kazoo-Parade24")
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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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![Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk hands out Allentown Pride shirts Saturday, June 28, 2025 at a flag-raising ceremony at Allentown City Hall hosted by the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center to commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall riots in 1969. The six days of riots following a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ+ bar in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, were a pivotal moment in the LGBTQ+ rights movement. (Oliver Lois Economidis/The Morning Call)]( "TMC-L-OutAndProud011")
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Browse political cartoons for the week of July 7
View Town Square/Opinion cartoons for the week of July 7, 2025.
Crime and Public Safety
3 dead, 10 injured in South Philadelphia shooting and a person is in custody, police say
Three people were killed and 10 others injured in a shooting early Monday in a...
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Business
Bitcoin mining: A beginner’s guide to how it works
Bitcoin is one of the most popular types of cryptocurrencies.
Pennsylvania News
Trump’s massive tax bill could cost Pa. $800M to keep food benefits program going
Two million Pennsylvanians rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, many of them children and...
National News
Boxing great Julio César Chávez defends son arrested by US immigration agents
'We’re calm because we know my son’s innocence,' the elder Chavez told El Heraldo newspaper.
Allentown
Man charged after he hit Allentown police officer with his car during traffic stop, authorities say
Allentown police have arrested and charged a man they say hit a police officer with...
Bethlehem Area
New Bethlehem record store hopes to continue legacy of former Double Decker in Allentown
The new Railroad Records store will let customers buy and sell records, CDs, antiques, clothing...