Allentown PA

A three-alarm fire ripped through a high-occupancy building on the 400 block of Northampton Street in Easton on Friday, turning a busy stretch of downtown into an active disaster zone as smoke and sirens filled the area. By midday, the blaze had been escalated to three alarms, drawing firefighters from across...

A fire on Easton’s Northampton Street broke out late Friday morning, leading to at least one hospitalization and power outages in Lafayette College-owned buildings. The blaze was classified as a three-alarm fire, according to WFMZ-TV, constituting a significant fire. One person was hospitalized when emergency...

ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH CO. (WOLF) — A 27-year-old Carbon County man died Thursday evening following a head-on collision in Lehigh County, authorities said. Oneil D. Fletcher, of Lansford, was pronounced dead at 8:32 p.m. on Feb. 19, 2026, in the emergency department at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest, according to the...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — State prosecutors on Friday ended their case against a city police officer accused of sex crimes. Sgt. Evan Weaver, 37, of Weisenberg Township, exited Lehigh County Court with his family after the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office dropped all charges against him. Weaver was arraigned in January...

Overnight crews successfully and safely removed the dump truck that was engulfed by a sinkhole at the intersection of Lewis Street and Summit Avenue in Phillipsburg. Repair crews remained on site throughout the night to address remaining issues at the intersection, the town announced online. Engineers in the area...

Quakertown Community High School and Quakertown Elementary were placed on lockdown Friday afternoon after a canceled student walkout escalated into a confrontation involving students and police near Front and Juniper streets in the borough. The Quakertown Community School District confirmed that a student-led walkout...

L. SAUCON TWP., Pa. – A tractor-trailer that caught on fire closed part of Interstate 78 Thursday night. It happened on I-78 westbound between the Route 412 and Route 33 ramps in Lower Saucon Township. Northampton County emergency dispatchers said they received the call for help just after 10...

Fire crews battled a growing blaze Friday in Downtown Easton that sent one person crawling out a fourth-story window to escape. Flames and plumes of smoke were pouring out of a semi-detached building in the 400 block of Northampton Street, across from the State Theatre. The building extends to Pine...

A Pennsylvania high school principal is facing widespread backlash on social media after telling parents that the school is collaborating with students on an anti–United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protest. Mattias van ’t Hoenderdaal, the principal at Quakertown Community High School, emailed...

BRODHEADSVILLE, Pa. — On this Ash Wednesday, signs are placed along Route 209 in Brodheadsville that read "Ashes to go". One by one, cars are pulling into the parking lot of Zion United Lutheran Church, ready to receive the symbol of mortality. "It's very convenient to just be able...