Easton News

Easton City Council approved a measure Wednesday that will provide up to $5,000 toward funeral or interment costs for city employees killed on the job.

Dave Sherman of Allentown, of the Reedhook Ale Brewing Co., fills sample mugs during last year's Brewfest in Easton.

As emergency personnel responded about 11 tonight to a report of an unconscious stabbing victim in a home on the 2000 block of Morgan Hill Road in Williams Township, someone in the home drove the victim to Easton Hospital , according to the Northampton County Emergency Dispatch Center.

A fire broke out at Walter House in Easton this morning. It was the sixth blaze at the building since April 25.

A Palmer Township man was arrested early this morning after he allegedly stabbed another person outside of a bar in Downtown Easton, police said.

An Easton women who threatened a pregnant convenience store cashier during an attempted robbery was sentenced this morning to up to 23 months in county prison.

Clifford Ransom Jr. had help from his father and girlfriend when he fled police, driving halfway across the country following a shooting in March, police alleged in court papers filed Wednesday.

This photo shows Don Lynch holding two of his daughters. Lynch has not been seen since about 9:30 a.m. Monday in the Jim Thorpe area of Carbon County.

A Pennsylvania man who says his co-workers didn't come to his aid when a bulldozer crushed his legs has won a $16.2 million settlement.

A man fishing on the Delaware River near Easton found a human leg. The find Sunday morning prompted a search along the river by Forks Township police.

The third man in a trio of allegedly robbed four people at gunpoint in a Spruce Street backyard in Easton has been arrested.

An Easton teen was arrested for raping a 17-year-old girl who had passed out during a drinking party two months ago, police said.

Elected officials and Lehigh Valley advocates for education, arts and community criticized Pennsylvania's proposed state budget cuts.

Michael Manuel Ramos, a new EAHS graduate, is charged in a robbery. Most lehighvalleylive.com visitors have words of congratulation and celebration for this week's Easton Area High School graduates.

An 18-year-old Easton man was arraigned this afternoon by District Judge Gay Elwell for allegedly robbing three victims at gunpoint on Apple Street.

A southeastern Pennsylvania man is free on bail, charged with criminal mischief for flooding the Easton police station.

NEW YORK Did The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., move out of a bureau office in the middle of the night and fail to inform the landlord? The competing Express-Times in Easton, Pa., reports the Morning Call closed its Northampton County bureau in Easton last week and didn't tell landlord Peter Koehler.

A city man who was arrested in May for allegedly robbing a wheelchair-bound man had the charge against him dismissed Monday during a preliminary hearing because the victim and a witness failed to appear in court.

Markeith Webb was arrested in Bath on Monday afternoon, a little more than a week after he left taunting messages with the city police department refusing to turn himself in.

The state, however, awarded Easton less than half its $25,000 request. The Department of Environmental Protection awarded Easton a $10,000 Illegal Dumpsite Cleanup grant, which requires a 50 percent local match.