Allentown News

Robin Wassum of Saylorsburg figured that by waiting 14 hours through a chilly night to be first in line at the box office when tickets for country music superstar Keith Urban 's Sept.

The expo, which started Friday, have pinball fans a chance to play on 150 different machines as well as meet other collectors and parts vendors.

A Pennsylvania man is being held in a Vermont prison on kidnapping charges stemming from what police say was an effort to collect a drug debt.

Three men were charged with beating and robbing a man of his wallet last night in Allentown, city police said.

Bethlehem Township police dropped theft charges against two college students who refused to leave a tip at a Lehigh Valley restaurant for what they said was lousy service.

A union leader in Pennsylvania has resigned after being criticized for threatening legal action over an aspiring Eagle Scout's volunteer project.

Share + Nov 23, 2009 12:29 pm US/Central ALLENTOWN, Pa. 1 of 1 Jon Gosselin's lawyer says a marathon arbitration hearing went so well that Jon and Kate Gosselin could be divorced by the end of the year.

A 31-year-old Allentown man showed up at the city's police station this morning with a stab wound in his right forearm.

According to police scanner reports a 5-foot 8-inch tall man wearing all black robbed a store at gunpoint this evening.

The death of a 65-year-old man found in his Allentown home Tuesday has been ruled a homicide, according to the Lehigh County coroner's office.

An Allentown man, armed with a brick, beat a 65-year-old man to death in his Park Street home Tuesday morning and stole cash, authorities said this morning at a news conference.

Police and the coroner say they are investigating the death of a 14-month-old child in Allentown.

The Boy Scouts' motto is: Be prepared. Who knew it meant preparing to defend themselves against purple-shirted union thuggery over community service? Kids, pay attention.

A three-alarm fire in Allentown heavily damaged two row homes and filled the neighborhood with smoke for more than two hours Wednesday.

A firefighter was injured and two homes were severely damaged in a smoky blaze that broke out in two row homes at the corner of N. Penn and Greenleaf streets in Allentown around 8:30 this morning.

Alex Cercado, 32, was killed early Tuesday at home. Police re-interview witnesses.

Police are investigating the deadly shooting of a man in Allentown. He was found dead inside a house at 816 North 5th Street around 3:40 Tuesday morning.

A Carbon County man sentenced to death after a jury convicted him of murdering two people in a botched Allentown robbery has been granted a new trial after a judge ruled the prosecutor biased a jury with ''improper and highly prejudicial'' statements.

Firefighters used every fire truck in Allentown to wage battle against a three-alarm fire that spread through two row homes in the 900 block of Penn Street this morning.

An Allentown man with a history of alcohol-related arrests faces charges after allegedly entering his former brother-in-law's Northampton home, grabbing a 10-year-old boy off the street and sexually assaulting him.