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Allentown gives Jordan Creek homeless encampment an extra month to vacate

Allentown is extending the deadline to evacuate the Jordan Creek homeless encampment by one month. Residents must leave by Sept. 29.

A homeless encampment at Jordan Meadows Park on Friday, May 2, 2025, in Allentown. The Allentown Commission on Homelessness organized the clean-up of the area, which has seen an accumulation of trash from people who are living there in tents as well as from dumping. (Jane Therese/Special to The Morning Call.)

Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death nearly three years ago. (Kyle Green/AP, Pool)

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Elevated view of the Free Bridge and the Delaware River, looking east from Easton in to Phillipsburg, NJ. The Delaware River again flooded where it merges with the Lehigh River on Wednesday, June 28, 2006. (Steve Klaver/Special to The Morning Call)

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Construction continues Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, on the new Overlook on History, a classroom and exhibition space in Bethlehem. The $1.5 million project will connect the historic Luckenbach Mill and the newly reopened Grist Miller’s House in Bethlehem’s Colonial Industrial Quarter. Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites oversees and is working to preserve the quarter, a collection of 18th- and 19th-century buildings that run along the Monocacy Creek. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call)

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Corinna Schneck and Meg Cunningham enjoy the festivities Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025, during Lehigh Valley Pride at SteelStacks in Bethlehem. The theme of this year’s event, which was hosted by Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, was Ridin’ with Pride in 2025. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call)

‘Show that we exist’: Lehigh Valley’s LGBT community celebrates openness at annual Pride festival

Several thousand people converged on SteelStacks in south Bethlehem for the annual Lehigh Valley Pride celebration.

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Wilson head coach Jim Brady is flanked by, from left, J’son Johnson, Christian Samayoa, Ryan Bonham and Nickolas Bracken. (Jonathan Broady/Special to The Morning Call)

Wilson football preview: Players committed to program

There are no guarantees regarding Wilson ending its 31-game losing streak in 2025, but one thing is for sure: They are competing together, as one unit and not a group of individuals and cliques.

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Opera singer Grace Lerew will perform with the Allentown Band on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, and Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Allentown. (Photo courtesy Sarah Kappes)

‘Something for everyone’: Upcoming Allentown performances feature trained opera singer, civilian concert band

The Allentown Band will perform opera and Broadway favorites at two shows this week, featuring Parkland graduate and opera singer Grace Lerew.

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Browse political cartoons for the week of Aug. 18

View Town Square/Opinion cartoons for the week of Aug. 18, 2025.

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Slate Belt Regional Police officer injured in head-on crash, authorities say

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A sign with a photo of Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau on it is seen as striking Air Canada flight attendants rally at Vancouver International Airport, in Richmond, British Columbia, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (/Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Union says Air Canada flight attendants won’t return to work despite strike being declared illegal

The airline said operations would resume Monday, but the union president says that's not happening.

Pennsylvania News

Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, chair of the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons. (Commonwealth Media Services)

People seeking to clear their record of a criminal conviction can now do so online in Pa.

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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – AUGUST 19: South African athlete Oscar Pistorius appears in Pretoria Magistrates Court for an indictment hearing on August 19, 2013 in Pretoria, South Africa. Pistorius, 26 is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp which Pistorius denies claiming he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder. The indictment was served and the trial date of March 3, 2014 was set in Pretoria Magistrates Court. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

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Allentown weighs taking out $134 million in bonds to finance new fire and police HQs, public health bureau

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An architect’s rendering of the proposed Ironside Lofts apartment complex on the site of the former Walnut Street parking garage in Bethlehem, from the view of Guetter and West Walnut streets. The rendering was created by Minno Wasko Architects and Planners. (Courtesy of City of Bethlehem)

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