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ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Many families with kids in the Allentown School District will have a hot meal this Thanksgiving thanks to a local daycare. Turkeys and bags filled with ingredients to make the big meal were loaded into a car today outside the Petite Scholars Learning Center in Whitehall Township.

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Buckingham Township, PA – The Pennsylvania State Police are offering a $5,000 reward for information that could help solve the 1972 death of 4-year-old Michael Allen Daum, whose body was found on a...

HARRISBURG PA – Many electricity customers of PECO Energy and Metropolitan Edison (Met-Ed) across Montgomery, Berks and Chester counties, and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, are likely to see their power costs rise beginning Monday (Dec. 1, 2025). The state Public Utilities Commission warns that semi-annual (June and...

A former employee has filed a class-action lawsuit against Jefferson Health, saying the health network did not give advance notice before laying off hundreds of employees this month. Ciara Brice said she is suing Jefferson Health, which includes Lehigh Valley Health Network, for violations of the federal Worker...

An Allentown man was charged in his son's death after he died from injuries sustained in 2012, officials said.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - UGI Utilities, Inc. has announced an increase in the purchased gas cost rate. The average residential heating customer receiving gas supply from UGI will see their total bill increase 0.9%, raising their total average monthly bill from $118.43 per month to $119.49 per month, according to a news...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A man's van plunged into Little Lehigh Creek and began filling up with rushing water. Tonight, that man spoke exclusively with 69 News. Tom Crawford, 87, was on his way home to pick up his wife of 40 years, when he lost control of his van and ended up in the water.

WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - Crews responded to a rollover crash in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County Wednesday morning. County dispatchers said it happened shortly after 6:40 a.m. on Route 145 and Springmill Road. Whitehall Police, as well as fire crews and an ambulance, were on scene Wednesday. Dispatchers said they...

The man—who is not being publicly identified to allow his family time to mourn—was pronounced dead at St. Luke’s University Hospital in Bethlehem at 10:56 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 25, according to Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio. He had been riding in the front passenger seat...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A 29-year-old pedestrian who died Friday in a hit-and-run had confronted the driver after believing the driver had struck the victim’s own vehicle, the district attorney said. The victim, Rigiberto Hernandez Arias, tracked down the delivery van that he believed had earlier struck his car...