Allentown News

Kids sometimes will pick up the book during gym, when bad weather forces classes inside.

Storybook Land, Egg Harbor Township, N.J., embodies the dream of Esther and John Fricano Sr.

RATE AID: Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad member Jay Padulchick stands with the Special Services ambulance outside the PFARS building on Harrison Street.

Ernest R. Willitts of New Egypt passed away on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 at Compassionate Care Hospice in Trenton.

Allentown High School has announced its second group going into its Hall of Fame - two alumni and an educator.

The Monmouth County Division of Engineering is evaluating the eight bids it received last month for the long-awaited Main Street bridge-dam replacement, meaning work could begin around Jan.

By Mary T. Robbins Phelan mrobbins@patuxent.com Posted 11/03/09 Books With A Past, the beloved used bookstore in Glenwood that last week was on the brink of closing, will remain open thanks to a New Jersey woman who has become its new owner.

A crash on the New Jersey Turnpike left one car in the woods and two drivers with injuries early yesterday morning.

As he seeks re-election, incumbent Borough Councilman Daniel Wimer looks to maintaining adequate police coverage, keeping development at bay along the town's boundaries, and monitoring the proposed Main Street Bridge project.

Mary Alice and Marvin Schaefer have owned Books With a Past, in Glenwood, for 14 years.

An eastern Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property in the theft of nearly $69,000 in antique coins from an Allentown flea market last year.

Several hundred pregnant women came to the Burlington County, NJ health department in Westhampton on Friday to get a free swine flu inoculation.

ALLENTOWN New Jersey robbery suspect arrested in county prison State police have charged a Lehigh County Prison inmate who is wanted on a robbery charge in New Jersey.

Five harnesses and related racing equipment were stolen from White Birch Farm in Allentown, N.J., on Sunday evening, Oct.

Jennifer Francis was trying to avoid the heat Thursday night so she turned on the air conditioner.

September 23, 2009 -- Smoking a cigarette on a sandy beach may soon be off limits.

Lorentzon entry favored in $100,000 Charles I. Smith Final Thursday, September 10, 2009 - by Carol Hodes, for the SBOA of New Jersey Manalapan, NJ --- Howthehaloareyou and Vesuvio AS, both trained by Anette Lorentzon and coupled in the wagering, have been installed as the 9-5 morning line favorites in the $100,000 Charles Smith Trot on Friday, ...

Authorities in New Jersey say they captured a 6-foot alligator in a busy park, the third -- and biggest-- one found on the loose in the state in three weeks.

LINWOOD The Linwood Arboretum at Belhaven is coming into bloom. The contracted site work on the former electrical substation next to Belhaven Middle School is almost complete.

As temperatures and humidity soared, the sweat poured. An excessive heat warning was in effect from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday as temperatures reached upwards of 92 degrees, according to Accuweather.com meteorologists, a few degrees below the record of 96 degrees set in Trenton back in 1949.