Slatington News

'70 GTX Mopar Couple Sherri Launchnor is the kind of woman every car guy wishes he could marry.

A Slatington man fainted in court Friday, moments after he was sentenced to three to six years in state prison for a series of thefts in Northampton County.

A Slatington teen who has a role in the movie ' 'Away We Go' ' will talk about her experiences after a 4:30 p.m. Saturday screening of the film at Civic Theatre of Allentown's 19th Street Theatre.

Apparently, some people prefer bills over coins. A Slatington man threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend after an argument that began Sunday when he tried to pay back a $20 loan with a jar of quarters, according to court papers.

FOUND Ann Blacker of Allentown, Elsie Pribula of Fountain Hill, Joyce K untz of Slatington , and Phyllis Ackerman sent rhubarb recipes for Fred Wentzel of Green Lane .

Seeking to join Allentown's developing theater district, the Slatington -based Pines Dinner Theatre will move this summer to the former Gate 9 Grille property at the northeast corner of the Allentown Fairgrounds.

Prosecutors say an eastern Pennsylvania man flicking a lighter to get a cat to come out of hiding from under his mother's bed started a fire that killed her.

ALLENTOWN 2 men and woman accused of stealing 500 pounds of nickel Two men and a woman have been charged with stealing 500 pounds of scrap nickel in Bethlehem and trying to sell the metal to an Allentown salvage yard.

Gail Maholick/TIMES NEWS Lehighton Unit 314 American Legion Auxiliary hosted a tea for Keystone Girls State candidates in the Four County Council area.

Hours after Jeremy Lee Wagner was charged with beating his girlfriend, he was picked up for kicking her apartment door while shooting a gun in the air, Bethlehem police said.

Firefighters shown working at the scene of a house fire at 424 Washington St., Slatington, in February.

PHILADELPHIA a ' Authorities say a car fleeing a Philadelphia robbery scene and being chased by police jumped a curb and crashed into a crowd, killing three children under age 10 and gravely injuring a woman.

Pennsylvania played a central role in the passage 42 years ago of the federal Laboratory Animal Welfare Act - which for the first time set standards of care for lab animals.

A Slatington area man has been charged with trespassing for allegedly burying his dead cat in his neighbor's tomato garden.

We're learning more tonight about the death of a teenager in Lehigh County. The coroner says 19-year-old Dwayne Sommers drowned Monday after he jumped off a nearly 45 foot ledge into the Pennzie Quarry, near Slatington.

A 19-year-old Lehigh County resident accidentally drowned on Monday afternoon while swimming in a quarry.

The Quarry is near West Church and 7th Streets. Police say one male, in his late teens, died and another lacerated his foot jumping in trying to save the other male.

One man is dead and another is injured after a water rescue in Slatington. It happened at a Quarry outside of Slatington locally referred to as the Pennzie Quarry.

Rescue crews are at a quarry outside of Slatington searching for a person who jumped into the quarry shortly after 4 p.m. and never reappeared.

In Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, divers have recovered the body of a young man who jumped into a quarry while swimming with friends.