It hasn't been easy, Board Chairman William Keifer Jr. said, recalling that from July 2006 to April 1, 2007, the service was shut down while the board sought ways to reduce its $278,000 debt and to try to recoup $700,000 in uncollected service charges and $21,000 stolen by its former director.

On Saturday, the squad will hold an open house to show what has been accomplished since service resumed last April. Read more

But how much of a chance there is to avoid turning sections of Wyandotte and Broadway into one-way streets is still unclear.

Public Works Director Michael Alkhal said he is meeting with traffic experts to take ''an honest look'' at the alternatives council discussed last week, but he remains ''skeptical'' that the suggestions will work. Read more

The board's vote led to protests and then a federal lawsuit charging the district's at-large voting system of discrimination against Hispanics.

Today the board will be facing a deja vu when it votes to fill a board vacancy.

Once again, Hispanic residents are advocating that the vacancy be filled by someone who can better represent the district's growing Hispanic population, in this case Sis-Obed Torres Cordero. Read more

Eduardo Hidalgo's family never noticed anything wrong with him as a child, at least not the bipolar disorder later discovered by a doctor. via The Morning Call

Leaning forward, the youngsters, some as young as 5, were told by Thomason that they are all now members of the ''bear clan,'' which watches over children.

The storytelling session, on the final night of a children's bereavement program held recently at St. Luke's Hospice in Fountain Hill, is one way the medical community of the Lehigh Valley is starting to embrace the concept of healing stories. Read more

Too many times, a dismayed Lehigh County Judge Robert L. Steinberg observed.

Kirsten Grube and Jacqueline Horveath held hands and cried, saying they didn't intend what happened.

There were apologies. And regrets. And in the end, no one could change what happened on April 8, 2007, when 18-year-old Jacob Paul Gibson, who had been drinking, got into his car with 17-year-old Hillary Blair Benner, who also had been drinking, after a cookout in Allentown. Read more

State police say Mosey drove over a concrete median and crashed his sport utility vehicle into another man's vehicle as they both traveled along Airport Road in Hanover Township, Northampton County, resulting in several charges being filed against the Republican mayor.

On Thursday, Mosey, 54, of 125 Spyglass Hill Road, sought to have his criminal record wiped clean by waiving a preliminary hearing on charges of recklessly endangering another person and motor vehicle violations. As part of his waiver, Mosey's defense attorney said his client would try to enter a court program for first-time offenders. Read more

Under the agreement released Wednesday, the system of electing nine at-large board members who represent the entire school district would be replaced with one designed to help a Hispanic candidate get elected.

The new voting system would have six at-large seats and three seats representing a smaller region, including an ''area where a predominance of Latino citizens live.'' Read more