Allentown PA

Two juveniles charged with arson after a six-alarm Allentown structure fire destroyed buildings and displaced over 30 residents, as investigators detail charges and ongoing probe.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Pennsylvania State Police say they will be on the lookout for speeding, seat belt violations and child seat belt infractions this Independence Day weekend. Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Troop M – Bethlehem said the official Independence Day Holiday Enforcement period will take place Friday through Su

State police investigating after surveillance captures four people entering shuttered SCI Graterford, but no footage shows them leaving. Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a bizarre break-in at the shuttered SCI Graterford prison after surveillance cameras captured four people entering the sprawling former cor

PECO workers are preparing put down their tools and pick up the picket signs with a proposed strike beginning July 4, according to members of IBEW Local Union 614, which represents PECO workers. Negotiations with PECO began at the start of the year, and members of the union have been...

FOUNTAIN HILL, Pa. - An Allentown man who burglarized a pharmacy in Lehigh County on Christmas Eve in 2024 has learned his sentence. Miguel Angel Martinez, 57, was ordered to serve 8 to 20 years in state prison by Judge Anna-Kristie M. Marks on June 26, the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office said in a news releas

PennDOT maintenance crews started work on more than a dozen roads across Lehigh County on June 29, with projects ranging from drainage improvements to crack sealing and a significant ramp reopening in South Whitehall Township, according to a traffic advisory from the agency. The most disruptive work will occur July...

An Allentown man was sentenced to up to two decades behind bars for his role in a burglary with shots fired at a Fountain Hill pharmacy. Miguel Angel Martinez, 57, was sentenced Friday before Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas Judge Anna-Kristie M. Marks to serve eight to 20 years in state prison.

LANSDALE — A Bucks County man must answer to charges in Montgomery County Court that he had indecent contact with a teenage girl while posing as a rideshare driver. Ryan S. Applegate, 38, of the 1800 block of North Limekiln Pike, of Hilltown Township, was ordered to stand trial, after a preliminary hearing before Distr

LEHIGH CO., Pa. - A well-known operator of multiple Lehigh Valley restaurants has died. Michael L. Dontas Jr., a co-owner of Copperhead Grille in Allentown and Upper Saucon Township and Utopita in Bethlehem Township, has passed away, according to an announcement on the restaurants’ social media pages. “It is...

A 33-year-old man was stabbed twice Sunday evening along the Greenway in Bethlehem, city police said. Police Captain William Audelo said city officers responded just after 4:45 p.m. to an area behind the 200 block of East Fourth Street. Investigators found the victim suffering from stab wounds, he said. He...