Wilson News

Police charged a man with stabbing another man during a fight Tuesday morning at a substance abuse treatment center.

The wife of Bethlehem police officer Charles W. Weigold Jr. says he jammed a clip in his handgun and told her a ''blood bath'' was imminent.

Presuming the school board holds true to its July 10 vote, Thursday will mark a milestone in the seemingly endless discussion about what to do with Pottstown's elementary schools.

A Wilson man awaiting sentencing for his role in the beating death of a man in downtown Palmerton has been jailed for violating conditions of his bail, including an allegation that he smoked marijuana.

Michael Harrison, 18, of 1540 Liberty St. was picked up Tuesday by the Northampton County sheriff's office and transferred Wednesday to Carbon County Prison. A hearing on the allegations is scheduled for Monday, officials said.

His probation officer, Jillian Fittos, filed court papers alleging Harrison tested positive for marijuana in late May, moved without notifying her and failed to report to her office as directed on July 2.

Members of the Wilson, Northampton County community mourned as they laid one of their youngest to rest.

Michael Harrison 18, of Wilson, formerly from Palmerton, is being shielded by a family member as they walk into the Carbon County Courthouse in Jim Thorpe on May 07, 2008.

A 25-year-old city man carrying four bags of cocaine, a cell phone and $3,500 in cash ran from and injured two officers Wednesday during a raid on his house in the 1200 block of East Third Street, police said.

An Easton man is in police custody, charged with the death of his girlfriend's son.

James Strickland and Lauren Anderson, parents of Elijah Strickland, embrace during a candlelight vigil outside the Wilson Borough home where their son died.

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He would have turned four next month. Police say a little boy is dead at the hands of his mother's boyfriend.

Police are investigating the suspicious death of 3-year-old Elijah Strickland. The Wilson Borough boy died Tuesday morning.

Easton police on Tuesday released a store surveillance photo of a woman they are trying to identify who has been using someone else's identification to make credit card purchases at area businesses.

Leiby's restaurant, a West Penn Township landmark since 1965, was sold at auction Monday to Center Valley businessman Gary Dell'Alba. With a barely perceptible nod among a flurry of rapid-fire bids that lasted ...

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A 27-year-old Bethlehem man is in jail today on attempted homicide and sexual assault charges involving an incident with a woman in his Bethlehem home yesterday morning.

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While searching a Palmer Township man's apartment today in connection with a $195,000 robbery, police found two hidden bundles of heroin.

James Black surrendered today and was arraigned before District Judge Gay Elwell.

Another new hospital rating system -- this one pooling existing data on quality, cost and reputation shows St. Luke's Hospital and Gnaden Huetten Memorial as the area's ''best values.''

The Fountain Hill and Lehighton hospitals were the only local hospitals among seven that scored high enough to make the list, according to a spokeswoman for Data Advantage, a health information company based in Kentucky that released its first ''Hospital Value Index'' Tuesday.

Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township, LVH-Muhlenberg in Bethlehem, Easton Hospital in Wilson, Palmerton Hospital and Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown did not score in the top 25 percentile to rate as a best value, said Carlie Crenshaw, who works for a Nashville public relations company. And no local hospital made the top 100 best value in the country list, she said.