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Police: Allentown man brandished machete during Route 22 road rage incident
WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. — Pennsylvania State Police say an Allentown man was arrested after brandishing a machete during a road rage incident on Route 22 East. According to police, the incident occured around 5:20 p.m. Saturday when two eastbound vehicles crashed near the MacArthur Road exit. The drivers then...
Police in Lehigh Valley seek man who, allegedly, installed credit card skimmer at Dollar General
Law enforcement officials in Macungie, in Lehigh County, are on the lookout for a man who, they claim, installed a credit card skimmer at a discount store in the borough. According to police, the incident happened around noon on April 11, when a man was captured on store surveillance cameras after he, allegedly, installed a credit card skimming device on a self-checkout register at a Dollar General store located along the 100 block of Main Street.
Jayden Gable Dies In Motorcycle Crash
Jayden David Gable was involved in a crash at the intersection of Interchange Road and Maple Avenue in Franklin Township just before 2:20 p.m., Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio said. The Mahoning resident was pronounced dead at 6:09 p.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest. The cause of death is...
Here are the results of Friday's police detail in Allentown
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Police in Allentown say they are proactively working to fight crime. Pennsylvania State Police and Allentown police conducted a joint detail in the city on Friday, they said in a news release Monday. The enforcement detail from 3-11 p.m. was to seek out and intercept criminal activity.
Bucks County woman charged with falsely accusing man of trying to rape, kidnap her
Anjela Borisova Urumova, 20, admitted Friday that she made up attempted rape allegations against Daniel Pierson, who spent 31 days in prison awaiting trial. Now, she is being held in Bucks County.
Police arrest suspect in 1989 cold case killing of 78-year-old Pennsylvania woman
More than 30 years after an elderly woman was stabbed to death inside her Lehigh Valley home, an arrest has been made in her murder. On Thursday, May 16, 2024, Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan announced homicide and burglary charges against Michael Breisch, now 65, in the 1989 murder of 78-year-old Rose Hnath.
Bristol Township dad details alleged school attack of kindergartener in now viral video
The father of a Bristol Township kindergarten student is alleging his son was seriously injured in an assault by a fourth-grader with special needs who was not properly supervised in a video that has gone viral since posted on Friday. On Monday afternoon, Bristol Township School District, the Bucks County Intermediate Unit and...
Victim identified in Bethlehem house fire
A 77-year-old man has been identified as the victim of a house fire in Bethlehem on Friday. Joseph R. Koch died in the fire, authorities said. The cause of the blaze remains under investigation. “No additional info will be released until the investigation is complete,” Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek...
Pennsylvania parents push back against drug criminalization
About a year before Tyler Cordeiro died of a drug overdose, his mother, Susan Ousterman, said he witnessed his friend die of one after they had used together. “He was distraught and grieving over his friend,” said Ousterman, who lives in Bucks County. “But he didn’t get to [fully] do that, because he was so terrified he would be arrested for his friend’s death.”
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