Bethlehem News

A 17-year-old Bethlehem boy will be charged with firing a BB gun into a vehicle and injuring a man.

A New Jersey man was charged Wednesday with trying to kill his ex-girlfriend with a kitchen knife last month in her Bethlehem home, court documents show.

First, the Hotel Bethlehem was named the official home-away-from-home for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs opponents.

Now, Bethlehem parking officials are getting ready for hometeam players who want to make the Christmas City their summer home.

While the 'Pigs play ball in east Allentown, players on the Valley's new AAA team hail from as far away as Australia to as close as Montrose, Berks County, near Reading.

Those players who rent houses or apartments for the season in Bethlehem already are causing a parking dilemma for city officials.

A man was charged with attacking his wife early Monday morning. Richard Van Billiard, 23, of 1216 Livingston St.

A 17-year-old Bronx man charged with raping a 12-year-old girl in Bethlehem waived his right to a preliminary hearing today with the agreement that most of the charges against him will be dropped.

Northampton County 's top prosecutor said he plans to file for reconsideration of a 10- to 20-year prison sentence in the rape and robbery of an 82-year-old Bethlehem woman.

While some businesses are struggling in this slugging economy, one local couple is going full steam ahead.

The Bethlehem Golf Club grossed more than $156,000 in June, its most profitable month ever, and officials say and indication of the success of hiring Starters to be the new course clubhouse restaurant.

But not all are reveling in the club's recent fortune.

Councilwoman Jean Belinski remained relentlessly negative about the decision in March to allow the restaurant to run the clubhouse, claims the success would not continue beyond this year and refuses to believe the city solicitor's assertion that Bethlehem has never owned the liquor license attached to the course.

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A second Bethlehem man was charged Tuesday in connection with the burglary of a neighbor's house in May, police said.

The Sands Bethlehem is billed as one of the largest economic development projects in Pennsylvania.

One man's art is another's disorderly conduct. A pair of 57 year olds from Delaware County told police they were taking artistic pictures Sunday afternoon on the Minsi Trail Bridge in Bethlehem.

Two juveniles were arrested Thursday afternoon and police are searching for a third in a string of burglaries and thefts.

A former Bethlehem man serving up to 56 years in state prison for a shooting spree -- despite trial testimony from two witnesses who claimed they had falsely identified him as the gunman -- says he deserves a new trial because his lawyer made numerous errors.

Reinaldo Fantauzzi, 25, was convicted in July 2006 of two counts each of attempted homicide and weapons charges and four counts each of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. Fantauzzi, the jury concluded, opened fire Aug. 13, 2005, in the Marvine-Pembroke section of the city. He was sentenced to serve 28-56 years in prison.

An Allentown man accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl he met on a LANTA bus waived his preliminary hearing today.

A 27-year-old Bethlehem man is in jail today on attempted homicide and sexual assault charges involving an incident with a woman in his Bethlehem home yesterday morning.

A woman who was drunk when she struck and killed a popular high school teacher as he walked along a dark road will not be charged in his death because he was drunk too and stepped in front of her car, a ...

Bethlehem police yesterday afternoon arrested two juveniles believed to be connected to a string of burglaries and thefts and are searching for a third juvenile.

Lt. Joe Kimock said officers went to the 900 block of Spring Street around 1 p.m. in response to a report of several boys in a silver BMW causing a commotion. Kimock said when the officers arrive, a 16-year-old Bethlehem boy bolted from the driver's side but was caught shortly afterward.

A 15-year-old Kutztown boy pointed out by witnesses to police was also arrested after he gave a false name. The BMW was found to be stolen.

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A secret love triangle coming out into the open apparently sparked a fatal April shooting in Easton's West Ward, witnesses said Wednesday.

Yolanda Cardona, 25, was sent back to Northampton County Prison, where she is being held without bail, after a preliminary hearing Wednesday before District Judge Gay Elwell, who sent homicide, possession of a firearm without a license and endangering the welfare of a child charges to court. Elwell dismissed a count of receiving stolen property.

Police initially said Cardona had been cradling her 2-month-old son in one arm when she allegedly shot and killed the baby's father, Harsun Cherry, 29, outside a home at 107 N. Eighth St. Cardona at the time was living at 113 N. Eighth St.