Mount Bethel News

A human leg found in the Delaware River just north of Easton yesterday morning remains a mystery today.

Nature is the main attraction in the ''Gap,'' with farms rolling down hillsides into the banks that create, arguably, the Delaware River 's most scenic vistas.

A local prosecutor is trying to put a released convict back behind bars. The district attorney tells 69 News the convicted rapist was released from prison because of a clerical error.

A federal judge ruled last month that a convicted rapist may leave state prison two years early because his Constitutional rights were violated.

A township man reported a grisly discovery Sunday following a morning fishing trip on the Delaware River.

RKR Hess, the survey, planning, engineering, landscape architecture and environmental science firm based in East Stroudsburg has closed its Scranton office.

Bill White bill.white@mcall.com I wrote last time about Danny the Steer, the gentle 1,300 pound marshmallow-munching bovine.

A $1.6 million project to paint six bridges in Northampton County using federal stimulus funds allocated to the local PennDOT district begins tomorrow on the Shimersville Road Bridge over Saucon Creek in Bethlehem Township .

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A 21-year-old woman was flown to St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill with severe injuries following a crash this morning in Upper Mount Bethel Township, according to state police.

The Forks Township Planning Commission has recommended against levying an additional tax to help shield farmland and other open space from development, citing the rocky economy and little interest among the community's few remaining farmers.

Northampton County Council has struck a new compromise on who should get to control millions of dollars in casino impact fees, but at least one councilman is still vowing to fight the deal.

The recent tragedy at the "Black Bridge" in Upper Mount Bethel Township on Memorial Day is a sad and unnecessary event that did not need to happen.

Did the inevitable happen on the old railroad bridge off River Road in Upper Mount Bethel Township? Did someone die? As I lay awake in bed watching the reflections of search lights on our windows, I thought of how just weeks earlier I asked the question, is this the year? Will someone lose their life jumping off the bridge? Will they ever shut it ...

The first time Kayce Rehl saw Brian Lynch was May 10, when she was introduced to him at a cousin's party.

New Jersey State Police today identified the teenager missing in the Delaware River since Monday night as an 18-year-old Phillipsburg High School student, according to a report in on LehighValleyLive.com . Police said the missing teen is Brian Lynch, a senior at the high school, who jumped from a bridge between the township of Knowlton and Upper ...

A Pennsylvania woman is accused of firing a shot into the ground near her teenage son's feet because he wouldn't listen to her.

The search continues this morning for an 18-year-old man who went missing after jumping into the Delaware River in Northampton County.

A demolition crew will level a 600-foot exhaust stack tomorrow morning at PPL Corp.'s retired coal-to-electricity plant in Martins Creek , Lower Mount Bethel Township.