Allentown PA

A Bucks County man who killed a Horsham Township grandfather in a July 2024 crash in Warminster where he was speeding 50 mph over the limit has been sentenced to probation and no jail time. Nicholas D. Toth, 43, of the 100 block of East Street Road, Warminster, was sentenced...

Robert Otis Cooper III, 26, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for his participation in a gun trafficking network which illegally obtained and circulated nearly 100 guns on the streets of Montgomery County and beyond between 2022 and 2023, The Reporter said. Cooper’s charges include...

PHILLIPSBURG, N.J. (Warren County) – A 20-year-old Phillipsburg man has been sentenced to seven years in state prison after pleading guilty to aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a handgun in connection with an August shooting incident, according to the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office. Andrew R. Weaver...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Marquis Michael Watkins will spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2022 killing of Jani Bostic in Bethlehem. Watkins was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in a 2022 robbery and shooting death in Bethlehem, according to a press release from the Northampton County District...

A Warren County man is being charged with forgery after he made and sold fake New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission inspection stickers, according to the county prosecutor’s office. Thomas Luster, 57, of Washington, was charged with forgery, uttering a fraudulent document, criminal simulation and fake government...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - An incident in which a pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle Friday night has been ruled a homicide. Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio made the declaration Monday. He identified the victim as 29-year-old Rigoberto E. Hernandez Arias, of Allentown. Hernandez Arias died of blunt force...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The Allentown School District has broken ground on a new school for area students. This morning, construction formally began on the Allentown K-through-8 Academy at Northridge. The building is going up at 1600 Hanover Avenue on the city's east side. District officials say the school building will...

Man fatally struck by delivery driver in Allentown after verbal altercation, DA says. The husband and father of three is dead after the hit-and-run in Allentown on Friday night, and now his employer is speaking out.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Allentown fire officials are investigating a late-night fire that happened Saturday at an auto body shop. The fire started sometime after 10:00 p.m. in the 600 block of East Congress Street at O & L Auto Repair. The amount of damage to the auto shop is not...

Investigators say the car lost control and hit a utility pole.