Allentown PA

Lehigh Valley Zoo has officially launched construction on its most ambitious project to date, breaking ground Thursday on the first phase of a new Children’s Activity Area in the lower section of the grounds in Schnecksville. The $10 million project, managed by North Star Construction Management of Allentown, will...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Had the calendar read differently — say, 30 years earlier — Mary Ann Beryl would have been among them. Beryl, of Allentown, would have been one of the young girls strolling about the Musikfest grounds Thursday night, clip-clopping about in various styles and shades of cowboy boots and straw cowboy...

MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Authorities have charged a woman after they say she faked a cancer diagnosis to get nearly 8,300 oxycodone pills from providers in three counties. Attorney General Dave Sunday stated that Brandi Leigh Bachman has been charged with fraudulently obtaining nearly 8,300 oxycodone pills from 19...

Driving in Pennsylvania isn’t always the easiest. Whether it’s merging onto a tight exit, dodging potholes, or trying to figure out who has the right of way at a four-way stop, there’s always something that keeps you on high alert behind the wheel. Also, let’s not even get started on rush hour traffic or the mystery...

When Portrait Of A Young Woman was first donated to the Allentown Art Museum in 1961, it was believed to be an original Rembrandt. A decade later, it was declared a forgery — but it may actually be authentic after all. When a painting titled Portrait of a Young...

The Pennsylvania Superior Court in a carefully worded 24-page opinion vacated the drunken vehicular homicide conviction of Shavertown attorney

William Kuntze isn’t happy Comcast cable is expanding to the Lehigh Valley. More specifically, Kuntze is unhappy Comcast workers dug holes from the curb into his front lawn, instead of the grassy strip between the sidewalk and curb, in Bethlehem Township. The underground work left his lawn, in a...

There are several things that unite us as Lehigh Valleyites — Musikfest, which begins this week, the IronPigs, the Phantoms, the Bach Choir — but nothing makes us feel so united, I would wager, as our hatred for Route 22. Route 22 sucks. In fact, Route 22 sucks so bad, the name of the road should be changed...

Whitehall Township, PA – A $5,000 reward is being offered for information that could help solve the decades-old homicide of Jeffrey Charles Horwith, a 37-year-old businessman shot and killed outside his home in Lehigh County in 1988. Horwith was gunned down on Friday, July 29, 1988, after returning home...

The 57-year-old roofing contractor who died Tuesday at a Northampton County home suffered a medical event, authorities said. The Northampton County Coroner’s Office has identified the deceased as James S. Akins of Effort, Monroe County. Akins died of natural causes, Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek said....