Allentown News

ALLENTOWN, Pa.: A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to accidentally starting a fire that killed his bedridden mother by using a lighter to get a cat to come out of hiding.

Firefighters are on the scene of a fire and a three-story house on Hamilton Street in downtown Allentown this morning.

Allentown Police have caught two men who they say are responsible for a bank robbery.

Friends of a young man killed in an accident Saturday night are keeping his memory alive.

Two men have been accused of robbing the KNBT bank in south Allentown on Saturday.

In all the world of hip-hop, who but Sean Kingston would be able to appear on "Live! With Regis and Kelly" without losing all street cred? Kingston made the appearance this morning, two days before his scheduled show Friday at Crocodile Rock CafA© in Allentown.

A tussle between two men early Friday in a convenience store parking lot ended with one man being stabbed and a woman shot in the shoulder, Allentown police said.

Share + Nov 6, 2009 6:06 pm US/Eastern MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press Writer An appeals court has ruled Pennsylvania State Police botched a prostitution investigation in which troopers gave an informant money to pay for sex four times at a massage parlor, along with a total of $180 for the man's trouble.

Bethlehem police place yellow flags in the area where Ezequiel De Jesus III was found dead early this morning in the 1300 block of Hilton Street, which faces Howard Street.

Share + Nov 6, 2009 7:30 am US/Eastern BETHLEHEM, Pa. Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania are trying to find out who killed a man who was found stabbed to death in the backyard of a Bethlehem home.

A plume of thick, black smoke seen over Buck Boyle Park in Allentown around noon time was an apparent case of arson.

A 24-year-old Allentown man was found stabbed to death early this morning in a rear yard of the Marvine-Pembroke public housing project, marking the first homicide in the city in more than two years.

A 26-year-old man helping to cut down a tree on Allentown's east side was injured fatally this afternoon when a heavy tree limb fell on his head, authorities said.

An engineering firm hired by Texas A&M University to study its tentlike athletic complex says the facility wasn't built to withstand the maximum winds prescribed by the building code.

With 82% of the city's precincts reporting their results, the Democrat holds a 3-1 lead over his Republican opponent, Tony Phillips.

Police seek relatives of a homeless woman found dead Friday, according to the Lehigh County Coroner's Office .

An Allentown man avoided a trial by pleading guilty to third-degree murder Monday for his role in a 2006 melee that killed his wife.

The woman found dead Friday afternoon in a wooded area of Allentown has been identified as Carol Widner, an apparently homeless woman who has lived in the Stroudsburg area, the Lehigh County coroner's office reported this evening.

Fan-filmed video footage of MOONSPELL 's October 17, 2009 performance at The Sterling Hotel in Allentown, Pennsylvania can be viewed below.

The body of a woman discovered in Allentown about 4:30 this afternoon will be the subject of an autopsy at noon Saturday, according to the Lehigh County Coroner's Office.