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Matt Assad

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Bethlehem, PA, United States

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Past articles by Matt:

Bernie Madoff scam still cuts Lehigh Valley victims

Lehigh Valley victims of Wall Street swindler Bernie Madoff say no matter how much is recovered, they say their lives can never be fully repaired. → Read More

Manhunt for Eric Frein ended peacefully, U.S. Marshals say

In the end, the manhunt to catch accused cop killer Eric Frein went almost exactly as planned. It took longer than anyone wanted and, yes, an entire region spent seven weeks worrying whether the expert marksman would train his sights on someone in the search zone. But when a team from the U.S. Marshals Service spotted Frein walking in a field near an airstrip in Pocono Township, they ordered him… → Read More

Frazzled child welfare workers struggle as abuse reports soar

Pa. child welfare workers struggle to keep up with a flood of new abuse calls in the wake of new laws passed after the Jerry Sandusky case. → Read More

Defiant Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski vows to fight charges

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski responds to federal charges leveled against him for an alleged pay-to-play-scheme in Allentown City Hall during a news conference Wednesday. → Read More

Lehigh County Coroner has identified truck driver who died Friday

The Lehigh County Coroner’s office has identified the driver who died Friday when his tractor-trailer veered off an Upper Milford Township road as Robert W. Rutty, 55, of Perkiomenville, Montgomery County. Rutty was driving a tractor-trailer at 6:36 a.m., when he went off the road and hit a retaining wall in the 4200 block of Chestnut Street, near Mill Road, according to Scott Grim, the county… → Read More

9-year-old girl dies in Carbon County fire

A 9-year-old girl died in aCarbon County house fire that also injured her father and brother. → Read More

ANIZDA arrives in the 21st century

The Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone Development Authority finally has its own webpage → Read More

LVIA becoming precheck central

Lehigh Valley International Airport is extending the time that people can sign up for the Transportation Security Administration's Precheck program. → Read More

Merrill Lynch moving to downtown Allentown

Bank of America will be moving some of its Merrill Lynch workers into downtown Allentown → Read More

City Center opens the doors to Strata East

City Center Investment Corp. cuts ribbon for Strata East → Read More

Airport authority slows its development plan

The Lehigh-Northampton airport Authority decides how to market 293 acres of excess airport land → Read More

Airbnb ruffles feathers in historic Bethlehem neighborhood

The Chandler House, one of the many Victorian charmers along Bethlehem's historic Market Street, recalls the neighborhood's stately past with its mansard roof, → Read More

Does the Lehigh Valley have enough hotels?

Three hotels will open in the Lehigh Valley by the end of the year, meeting demand with the addition of a combined 360 rooms in a hotel market that still had room to grow despite a busy past decade of lodging development. → Read More

Newest Allentown apartment complex full before it's finished

Newest Allentown apartment complex full before it's finished. → Read More

New ANIZDA bonds will carry 'high risk'

The upcoming $222 million bond sale by the Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone Development Authority will carry a rating of Ba1. → Read More

Allentown's Crocodile Rock could be demolished

Crocodile Rock, the concert venue that brought Snoop Dogg, Taylor Swift and Twenty One Pilots to Hamilton Street, is in the wrecking ball's path. Allentown's largest developer, City Center Investment Corp., has requested city permission to demolish the building at 520 W. Hamilton St. to build an apartment and office complex. City Center CEO J.B. Reilly and Croc Rock owner Joe Clark are in talks… → Read More

Bonuses make ANIZDA director Allentown's highest paid public worker

Bonuses make ANIZDA director Allentown's highest paid public worker → Read More

House push for statewide betting machines again threatens lucrative gambling expansion effort

Pennsylvania House gearing up vote on allowing 40,000 video gaming machines in bars, VFWs, social clubs, truck stops and other places → Read More

Sands Bethlehem casino waging ad war against tavern gambling

Just two weeks after the $1.3 billion sale of Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem collapsed under the threat that Pennsylvania may allow casino gambling in bars, Sands is launching a million-dollar campaign to stop it. Sands this week is beginning a statewide high-priced ad war on television, radio and internet against legislation expected to be introduced in the state House that would allow Video… → Read More

Pennsylvania casinos find little to like in internet gambling bill

Pennsylvania Senate recently approves bill that could generate nearly $150 million in new revenue through internet gambling. → Read More