Freemansburg News

Touchstone Theatre Ensemble member Emma Chong has been a part of the company's Young Playwrights Festival for more than four years.

Staring into a wall of smoke in his home this morning, Rick Buskirk got his daughters and girlfriend out of their row home.

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A scene from the one-act play "The Jungle" is performed on stage during the 2012 Touchstone Theatre Young Playwrights' Festival.

An accident in Northampton County has one family dealing with a new addition to its home.

William Orlando Hughes , 34, of the 700 block of Front Street, was arraigned today on charges of carrying a firearm without a license and recklessly endangering another person, court records state.

The Bethlehem Area School District is planning to take over playground building in the district.

A man was found with two kinds of drugs after he used a bat to smash the window of his SUV and bang on the windows of a home he shared with his girlfriend, officials said.

Four Democrats are seeking three vacancies on the borough council. The winner of the May 21 primary election will move on unopposed to the November election.

A supervisor in the "cage"-the center of cash storage and distribution at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem -is accused of stealing $10,000 from his employer, according to court papers.

A Monroe County motorist who kept waving at a police officer he was trying to elude was drunk, officials said.

Five people, including a 25-year-old Bethlehem man and a 25-year-old Freemansburg man, were slashed or stabbed in fights that broke out early Saturday at a large party at 8996 Kings Highway in Lynn Township, state police at Fogelsville said.

The man who's held it for 32 years says he still has what it takes to lead the riverside community, but a councilman has stepped up to begin a new era of leadership.

A 58-year-old Freemansburg woman was jailed Thursday after borough police and the Northampton County Drug Task Force issued a search warrant at a borough home, police report this morning in a news release.

Hundreds of runners hit the streets of Bethlehem this morning to honor a Freemansburg police officer who gave the ultimate sacrifice.

Denisse A. Maldonado , 23, of Harrisburg, was traveling east on Pembroke Road at 3:04 Sunday afternoon, police say.

PPL has announced that it plans to rebuild a "key" transmission line in the Saucon Valley area.