Lehigh County News

Authorities believe a 65-year-old Allentown man let several people know he had withdrawn a large amount of cash from the bank before wiring money to family Tuesday morning.

An early-morning car crash in Lehigh County takes at least one life. State police say the wreck happened around 1:30 in Washington Township when the driver lost control on a curve on Best Station Road and hit a tree.

Police and the coroner say they are investigating the death of a 14-month-old child in Allentown.

Alex Cercado, 32, was killed early Tuesday at home. Police re-interview witnesses.

At least 20 million more people live in the United States than at the time of the last official census in 2000.

An eastern Pennsylvania man sentenced to death in the April 2003 shooting deaths of a local disc jockey and a friend in a botched robbery attempt has won a new trial.

People waited outside Bethlehem's City Hall on Wednesday to receive H1N1 flu shots offered to Bethlehem Area School District students.

The operator of the now-defunct Almost Heaven kennel in Lehigh County - the subject of multiple raids and seizures of hundreds of dogs over the past year - withdrew his guilty plea to animal cruelty charges today.

Two men are charged with Saturday's robbery at the KNBT bank in south Allentown.

Two state lawmakers are trying to gauge public opinion on what should be done to reduce traffic congestion on Route 222 in northern Berks County.

A 30-year-old New Jersey man arrested in a 2007 online sex sting after he went to South Whitehall Township to meet a person he thought was a 12-year-old girl but turned out to be an undercover agent pleaded guilty but mentally ill Thursday to five felonies.

The cousin of a Lower Milford man charged with homicide testified in Lehigh County Court this morning that he watched his cousin pull a gun, point it at Paul J. Burrier and shoot him from about 4 feet away.

A man who admitted to police he used a blackened banana to threaten clerks as he robbed a Bethlehem bank will face charges in Lehigh County Court after giving up his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday afternoon.

Firefighters work at the scene of a house fire in Slatington at 424 Washington St.

An eastern Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to accidentally starting a fire that killed his bedridden mother while he tried to get a cat to come out of hiding.

A jury in Lehigh County has found a man guilty of killing a woman outside an after hours club in Allentown.

A tussle between two men early Friday in a convenience store parking lot ended with one man being stabbed and a woman shot in the shoulder, Allentown police said.

This is an undated photo of Andrew Gmitter taken from his Facebook page. A 23-year-old Lehigh Township man has died of injuries he suffered during a one-vehicle accident early this morning, officials said.

The Lehigh County Coroner's Office is seeking the next of kin for a 74-year-old Allentown woman who died Thursday from natural causes, according to a news release.

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