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Downtown resident and business owner Rob Wozniak for years picked up litter in the 500 block of Northampton Street at least twice a week.

Pulling off one of the more impressive feats in Lehigh Valley sports, Easton used a big first half to build a 21-7 lead and held off Parkland for a 21-14 victory Saturday night at Cottingham Stadium for the District 11 4A title.

Norfolk Southern has granted the city more time to complete cosmetic upgrades at the company's long-shuttered train station off Route 611.

Police investigating Thanksgiving morning stabbing Easton police are investigating a stabbing that took place early Thanksgiving morning in the area of 7th and Pine streets.

Doug and Leann Long are Mercedes and Ciara's adoptive parents. Doug and Leann Long are thankful for the two blessings this Thanksgiving -- their adopted daughters Ciara, 9, and Mercedes, 8. The siblings became part of the Easton family last year, increasing its number from two to four overnight.

VIDEO Aftermath of fire at Easton apartment complex. themorningcall.com Smoke coming from Tuesday's fire that devastated part of an Easton apartment complex sent resident Monserrate Rivera to the hospital with a severe asthma attack.

The Cheston Elementary School may require a building addition to accommodate an influx of hundreds more students in upcoming years, school officials said Thursday.

The Tuesday morning fire at The Manor apartments in Easton began in a basement laundry room, according to officials, who have yet to determine a cause.

Developer Abraham Atiyeh's plans for the Chipman Mills property include a county-run treatment center for women.

Once the community settles on a final vision for the former Simon Silk Mill, the city, not a developer, will dictate the project, Mayor Sal Panto Jr.

The city hopes to open Larry Holmes Drive and ease traffic congestion ahead of the busy upcoming holiday weekend.

Numerous residents of an Easton apartment building had to jump off balconies this morning when a fast-moving fire tore through numerous units.

Club Beyond is at 5 Lehns Court in Easton. Northampton County's district attorney wants to shut down Club Beyond in Downtown Easton by declaring it a nuisance bar.

The Easton Housing Authority will pay 6 percent more for health coverage next year and increase the co-pays and deductibles for its employees.

An 18-year-old man charged with breaking into a Whitehall Township sporting goods store in September and taking a cache of guns will face Lehigh County Court, a district judge ruled Monday.

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The city's redevelopment authority agreed Wednesday to condemn a pair of South Third Street properties for a proposed parking deck and bus depot, but at least one authority member expressed reservations about the move.

Salvation Army volunteers Danielle Kline, of Bethlehem, and John Ceccato, of Phillipsburg, help sort out 810 pounds of food collected at Easton Area High School in a food drive held by Sodexho.

Nearly a year after the president of a sports gear company in Pennsylvania admitted engaging in fraud, federal authorities are investigating his dealings with dozens of northern New Jersey school districts.

Judge Jack Panella bid $770 for the honor of flipping the switch on the Easton Peace Candle.

Someone has bid $770 to have the honor of flipping the switch on the Easton Peace Candle this year.

The front entrance of Club Beyond on Lehns Court in Downtown Easton. The owner of Club Beyond was arrested early this morning for ordering his employees to clean up blood and other evidence after a stabbing at the Downtown Easton club last week, police said.

Singer-songwriter Darius Rucker's Nov. 28 concert at the State Theatre in Easton has sold out.

A Pennsylvania city that has agreed to a $5 million settlement of a lawsuit over the fatal shooting of a police officer inside police headquarters is working out how to pay the money.

An Easton man was sentenced today to up to two years in prison for robbing a boy in the city's West Ward, but already served enough time to avoid going back to jail.

The city must pay the Sollman family $3 million by Jan. 31 as part of a settlement approved this week in Carin Sollman's federal civil rights lawsuit.

The owner of 120 Northampton St. has challenged the city's attempts to condemn the vacant building that's been eyed for redevelopment in recent years.

While attorneys have yet to release details about the city's $5 million settlement agreement with widow Carin Sollman, it appears Easton has few options in raising the money to pay the bill.

Evelyn Rivera was put in an unenviable position Tuesday when she was asked to translate information to her boyfriend about statutory rape charges he is facing.

Easton and the Sollman settlement: Deal, or no deal? Posted by Michael Duck at 11:05:13 AM on November 10, 2009 a oeOur long municipal nightmare is over,a remarked Easton Councilwoman Elinor Warner before casting her vote for a $5 million settlement ending a lawsuit over officer Jesse Sollman's 2005 fatal shooting inside police headquarters.

An eastern Pennsylvania city council has approved a $5 million settlement with the widow of a police officer shot dead inside police headquarters.

Actress Cameron Diaz applauds as comedian Jimmy Fallon delivers his five-word acceptance speech after being honored as Person of the Year at the 13th annual Webby Awards in June.

It's not easy being a leader. You can quickly go from hero to zero. But to be an effective leader in today's society you have to find the thin balance between passion and compassion.

Easton Area High School students, wearing jeans, shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops, walk through the halls in 2006.

The Easton division of the regional chamber of commerce has decided to embrace the city's name.

The city's Weed and Seed program is slated to receive $210,264 from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.

Jobi and Elizabeth Fretz patiently waited Sunday on Northampton Street in Easton with their 7-year-old son, Joseph, and 3-year-old daughter, Cora.

Construction of a long-planned trail along the Bushkill Creek, linking Easton's downtown and West Ward neighborhoods, might begin within a matter of months, city officials said tonight.

Police take both robbery suspects into custody today within blocks of each other on Easton's College Hill.

Don't tell Larry Holmes that the balloons flanking the stage at his birthday party Friday night spelled out his age.

A man fired from his job Friday morning armed himself with a box cutter and held Palmer police at bay, prompting the lockdown of an area school, police said.

Police from Easton and Palmer Township are fanning out in Hackett Park in the city this morning in search of a suspect who may have fired a gunshot.

Focus and relax with a new series of jazz CDs designed to complement yoga by the David Leonhardt Jazz Trio.

The Easton Main Street Initiative will honor a Downtown salon today with October's Golden Bloom Award.

Police on Wednesday captured two armed robbery suspects less than an hour after a noontime holdup at the Stewartsville Deli.

Steve Parkansky is a former Easton police officer who could become Wilson Borough's next police chief.

City planning commissioners approved plans Wednesday for a trail along the Bushkill Creek Corridor and recommended the zoning hearing board grant the necessary zoning approvals.

Two men who robbed a New Jersey deli this afternoon were arrested about an hour later in Easton, New Jersey State Police said.

A Whitehall Township man accused of robbing the Lafayette Ambassador Bank this summer wants the charges against him thrown out.

A man suffering from two stab wounds collapsed tonight in a Downtown Easton McDonald's, according to emergency radio broadcasts and the manager there.

Joan Orie Melvin, a Republican judge from Western Pennsylvania, prevailed in the Philadelphia suburbs yesterday to claim a decisive win in the hard-fought battle for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court.

EASTON Driver charged after allegedly falling asleep at McDonald's An Easton man was charged with drunken driving after police found him asleep in the drive-through lane at a city McDonald's restaurant, police said.

Plans for Easton's controversial Riverwalk parking deck and bus terminal have been resurrected at a new location on S. Third Street, officials announced Thursday, in a move that won approval from even some of the project's former critics.

Cheryl Spadt lost her 8-year-old cousin to leukemia more than 10 years ago, but time has done nothing to blunt the pain of the loss.

The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office says it has broken up a $2.5 million marijuana distribution ring that moved the drug from New York to the Easton area and then resold it on Kutztown University's campus.

PHOTO GALLERY More photos of the Phillipsburg -Easton and Allentown Halloween parades.

Three brothers and their mom ran a $2.5 million marijuana and money laundering ring that operated in Easton and distributed large amounts of the drug on the Kutztown University campus, the state attorney general's office announced this morning.

Easton Area School Board member Kerry Myers, left, and football coach Steve Shiffert, right, are at odds over Myers' call to improve diversity among coaches.

Joey Sklodowsky, 5, left, pulls his brother Michael, 2, in the Easton-Phillipsburg Halloween Parade.

For the 17th year, straw will be turned into scary, glamorous and funny creatures during the Scarecrow Festival in Easton's Centre Square.

A 39-year-old Easton man came home drunk Wednesday and punched his wife because she didn't have money to buy him more beer, police said.