Lauren Tamayo

Matt Baranoski started his spring semester at Penn State Lehigh Valley, and then took off for Scotland two weeks later. Baranoski, the Pennridge High School graduate and budding Olympic track cycling hopeful for 2016, took two weeks off from school early...

For Allentown, Penn State football and President Barack Obama, 2012 was a year of new beginnings. For Jerry Sandusky, certain Catholic priests in Philadelphia and leaders of the Boy Scouts of America, it was the year the past caught up with them....

By Gary R. Blockus Of The Morning Call Lauren Tamayo called it surreal. She had no idea Paul McCartney was in the house, or the fact that he led the Olympic velodrome crowd of around 6,000 people into a chorus......

Call it a kick-butt time at nationals for local cyclists. Two-time U.S. Olympian Bobby Lea of Topton captured three more national titles last week in Carson, Calif., at the USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships. Lea was one of seven area...

Matt Baranoksi of Perkasie, Colleen Hayduk of Kutztown, Mandy Marquardt of Topton and Mary Costelloe of Emmaus all cleaned up at the 2012 USA Cycling Collegiate Track National Championships in Frisco, Texas last week. Baranoski, racing for Penn State-...

BASKETBALL Men Group A France 73, Tunisia 69 United States 99, Lithuania 94 Argentina 93, Nigeria 79 Group B Russia 77, Spain 74 Brazil 98, China 59 Australia 106, Britain 75 SOCCER Men Quarterfinals South Korea 1, Britain 1,...