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One Financial Services names Steven McLeod an operations coordinator April 9, 2021 12:01 pm South Whitehall Township, Lehigh County-based One Financial Services named Steven McLeod an operations coordinator. He will focus on tax-related matters pertaining to clients’ investments and savings goals. He is an enrolled agent, has more than two decades of tax and audit experience and specializes in complicated tax situations. Previously, he had his own tax and accounting practice....

‘Ghost guns’ banned by Pa.’s largest gun show promoter Updated Mar 15, 2021; Posted Mar 15, 2021 Eagle Arms Productions owner Joel Koehler is the first gun show promoter in the nation to ban 80 percent receivers, otherwise known as "ghost guns" from his shows. The top picture shows boxes of these gun kits that were for sale at Eagle Arms Morgantown show last month. The bottom picture of the same gun dealers barren tables was taken at Eagle Arms Carlisle gun show on Friday, the day the...

The decision is drawing applause from gun control activists and (surprisingly) even some 2A supporters.

© Getty Images A Pennsylvania gun show promoter became the first in the U.S. to ban the sale of kits used to build untraceable “ghost guns,” the states attorney general announced Monday. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) said Eagle Arms Productions, the largest gun show promoter in the state, stopped the sale of the kits at its gun shows on Friday. The do-it-yourself kits are sold without any background checks or serial numbers that law enforcement uses to trace the assemble...

St. Luke’s Warren Campus names Tammeisha D. Smith a board member February 19, 2021 2:00 pm St. Luke’s Warren Campus, part of Fountain Hill, Lehigh County-based St. Luke’s University Health Network, named Tammeisha D. Smith a board member. She is CEO of Dunbar Center Inc. in Newark, New Jersey. She has licenses in life, accident and health and property and casualty insurance, as well as a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College & University. ​ ​ Sending Newsmakers Send announcem...

Lehigh Valley weather: Why it could snow 2 feet and why it could have been worse Updated Feb 01, 2021; Something to hold dear during the next 12 hours of the truly nasty part of the snowstorm: It could have been worse. While discussing Monday morning how the three-day storm developed and how it set up nearly perfectly for a dramatic hit on the Lehigh Valley and northwest New Jersey, EPAWA Weather Consulting meteorologist Bobby Martrich noticed the current pressure of the low, which was about 7...

Lehigh Valley snowstorm essentials: When might it sleet? When best to shovel? And is thundersnow dangerous? Updated Dec 16, 2020; Facebook Share The snowstorm that will bring the region to a stop overnight is expected to begin between 2 and 3 p.m. in Lehigh and Northampton counties as the nastiness arrives from the southwest, a local meteorologist said early in the afternoon. Extremely dry conditions in advance of the storm -- the dew point was 12 with a temperature of 24 degrees at 11:51 a.m....