Durham Township, PA

The PGA of America announced back in 2014 that the 2022 PGA Championship would be hosted at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. For now-former President Donald Trump, it represented the first time one of his courses had been picked to host a major golf tournament. According to Trump Golf, he owns 19 different courses.

Wind Creek is being fined $20,000 for letting a person on the self-exclusion list gamble at the Bethlehem casino. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) said a person on the board’s self-exclusion list was able to gamble at table games during a number of visits over a four-day period.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The Lehigh County coroner's office is looking for the family of a man found dead at a hotel in Allentown. Jose Vargas, 55, died Tuesday at the hotel where he was staying, the coroner's office said. He is from Hanover Township, in the Bethlehem area. His cause...

A Bethlehem Township shopping center that is in the middle of booming residential development is getting a new name and new tenants. The Shops at Bethlehem at 2920 Easton Ave. is the new name for the old Easton Commons. Anchor tenant Giant Foods has renewed its lease and renovated the interior of the store, according to NAI Summit, which handles leasing at the 166,000-square-foot shopping center.

On its face it’s a shocking figure: 147 incidents over four years where 268 children were left unattended at Bethlehem’s casino. The incidents from 2018 to 2021 ranged from a mere minute to nine hours, and are part of an increasingly concerning trend at the casino, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said Wednesday.

A prosecutor described cellphone evidence, an alibi that didn’t make sense and a bloodstain on the victim’s back door that led investigators to close in on Michael Horvath as the suspect in Holly Grim’s 2013 disappearance in the opening of Horvath’s kidnapping and murder trial. In the weeks after the Lower Macungie Township mother disappeared from her trailer, police interviewed coworkers of ...

A Lyft driver shared footage of an exchange he had with a passenger, who asked him if he was a “normal guy” who speaks English. In the dashcam-recorded clip shared to Facebook, driver James W. Bode can be seen letting a woman into his vehicle at 10:37 p.m. on Friday night, before she asks if he’s a “white guy.” He says he picked her and her partner up from a pub and grill in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania before she made the “racist” remark to him.

Meteorologist Adam Joseph is tracking a period of rain tonight. This is the introduction to warmer more humid air for late week into the weekend.

WARRINGTON, Pa. - The Shops At Valley Square will be closed for the rest of the day Wednesday due to a PECO issue. The Shops posted on Facebook saying "Due to an area wide PECO outage, The Shops at Valley Square will be closed for the remainder of the day today, Wednesday May 18th. Thank you."

Wells Fargo & Co. will close a branch in Lehigh County and has closed a Luzerne County location as online banking grows. The 541 Main St., Slatington, branch will close Aug. 3, according to a statement from Elise Corbett, a spokeswoman for Wells Fargo. "We apologize for any inconvenience and...

WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - A nursing home employee who assaulted a 91-year-old resident in Whitehall Township has been sentenced. Julian Bailey was sentenced to six months house arrest and two years of probation, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office. Bailey had been charged with simple assault and harassment.

Phillipsburg Town Council approved plans to redevelop a crown-jewel property on Phillipsburg’s South Main Street into a mixed-use residential complex on Tuesday. Redevelopment plans for the vacant Elks Lodge building and former Warren County One Stop Career building appeared before council again, after the town’s Land Use Board approved four waivers for the project in March.

Phillipsburg and Alpha received jubilant news on Tuesday. Both the town and the borough are in line to receive $3.3 million in federal funds for infrastructure projects. Phillipsburg could receive the money to overhaul the town’s deteriorating sewage infrastructure, which dates back to the late 1800s. Alpha could receive funding to construct a new water tower.

A European electrical equipment manufacturer will take one of the new warehouses in Palmer Township’s Chrin Commerce Centre, creating more than 100 jobs. ABB announced Wednesday it will open a distribution center for its Installation Products Division at Carson 33. The 350,000-square-foot building is located at 1000 Carson Court, adjacent to an Amazon Fulfillment Center and a UPS Hub. It is on ...

Thunder Outreach Ministries will host a Miracle Tent Revival Week from June 12-18 at Laurel Mountain Ministries Chapel, 27 Chapel Lane, Boyertown. “We’re doing a good old-fashioned big tent revival,” said Chaplain Mark Malizzi of Thunder Outreach Ministries, a faith-based Christian community outreach event and organizer team that started out as an 11-person Bible study group.

Lamont McClure and the administrators of Gracedale Nursing Home are requesting County Council approve adding a daycare facility to the campus which will provide a financial incentive to attract CNAs, LPNs, RNs and other support staff. “It’s difficult for every industry to hang onto workers right now, but especially so...

Josh Zimmerman said his Northwestern Lehigh softball team has a flair for the dramatic. While that flair may not be good for his hairline and puts a little more gray into his beard, Zimmerman appreciates the tenacity and resilience of his Tigers who are returning to the Colonial League championship after several comebacks gave them a 5-4 win over Palisades in eight innings Tuesday night at ...

Liberty rising senior Matt Vital recorded eight birdies during a tournament-record, 7-under-par 65 on Sunday to win the Philadelphia junior golf tournament at Penn State’s Blue Course. The Bethlehem resident shot a 72 in Saturday’s first round before Sunday’s stellar round to win by two shots over Shavertown’s Michael Lugiano. Moravian Academy’s Evan Eichenlaub was third at 2-under. The ...