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Pa. asks court to close Lehigh Valley restaurant that allegedly violated COVID-19 shutdown order Updated Dec 31, 2020; One of the three Lehigh Valley restaurants ordered closed by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture after allegedly refusing to halt indoor during despite an order from Gov. Tom Wolf to do so is now facing action in the state’s Commonwealth Court. Mad Dog Hot Dogs Macungie, of the first block of North Poplar Street in that borough, was among 22 restaurants named as respo...

3 Lehigh Valley restaurants ordered shut by state after allegedly violating eat-in ban Updated Dec 24, 2020; Posted Dec 24, 2020 Rileys Restaurant & Pub, in the 4500 block of Main Street in Whitehall Township,. was ordered closed after allegedly violating Pennsylvanias requirement not to serve in-house dining.Google Facebook Share One Northampton County restaurant and two in Lehigh County were ordered shut last week after allegedly violating Gov. Tom Wolf’s ban on indoor dining between Dec....

May 21, 2020 Back in 2017, Ravi Zacharias, who passed away earlier this week after a brief battle with cancer, was accused of an inappropriate online relationship with a woman that involved sexually explicit messages and photographs. Zacharias sued the woman and the matter was settled out of court under undisclosed terms. Now the woman at the center of those accusations, Lori Anne Thompson, has come forward with a video message, asking the Zacharias family to release her from the non-disclosur...

Lawsuit by private schools in Michigan dismissed as moot John Wisely, Detroit Free Press © Kimberly P. Mitchell, Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Fr An empty classroom with desks. A federal judge in Michigan on Monday denied a request to overturn a state order that barred in-person learning at high schools, saying the case was now moot because the order expired. "That order expired on December 20, 2020, and it has been replaced with a new emergency order that allows all scho...

The Christopher Columbus Statue in Pueblos Mesa Junction was shrouded Friday with a large banner reading "TAKE IT DOWN." The banner was one of a few set by a group of activists in honor of Rita Martinez, a dedicated community organizer and Chicana activist who died Dec. 10 after battling COVID-19 at Pueblos Parkview Medical Center for 14 days. Her funeral was Friday. "It looks like some people wanted to commemorate my mom, Rita Martinez," Vicente Martinez Ortega said. "(Friday) is the day of...

Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that would end the sale of Confederate flags, swastikas or any such symbol of hate on state grounds within New York on Tuesday.  The new bill would also limit any such symbols exposure on state grounds unless its deemed educational or used in historical context. Enter your number to get our free mobile app According to the New York Post, the new law will go into effect immediately and because of its nature, some may find it unconstitutional.  Regardless of ...

>> does your research suggest thats the right, best response to prevent further actions? >> no. and look, we dont have to look at my research, just go to these white nationalist web pages, they say, hey, president trumps inability to condemn us right away is a wink and a nod. hes retweeted materials from nazi groups, including false information about the levels of black crime. where he talks about crimes by immigrants which are actually lower than native born americans. what we need is some mora...

Tell me no comment. youre not going to comment, then dont comment. but tell me. >> he was eventually arrested and charged with willful disruption of governmental processes. he is now free on bond and joins us now. good to have you on the show. what do you make of the arrest and the charges? >> well, i was just trying to do my job. i think they really didnt need to do that. they could have told me to back off, to go away. i mean, at one point in the tape, you hear them tell me to get back from ke...

Him. you have got a first amendment right, but let me tell you something. we hack them, they hack us. do you agree with that? >> i do not believe -- i think when a foreign government invades our country -- when did they invade? >> trump is n not taking them seriously its horrifying. jean rrp cocoa, nobody invaded. >> do you disagree the f.b.i. and the cia received putin hacked the election? judge jeanine: putin did not invade the country. >> whatsed the difference between walking into our border...

Their citizenship. what is your position on flag burning? >> in my neck of the woods, people dont burn them they honor them. but we have a first amendment right, but where i come from, you honor the flag. if somebody wanted to show their first amendment right, i would be afraid for their own safety, but well protect our first amendment. >> so to be clear, you dont like it, as we have said, but you believe that is protected under the first amendment? >> thats what the court upheld. i think the be...