Northampton County News

Three men are suing the Northampton County solicitor's office and the county's sheriff's office for ignoring their bids on foreclosed properties and not allowing them to pay with gold and silver, court records say.

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

A 50-year-old Catasauqua man displayed a knife and threatened a teller's life Friday afternoon during a bank robbery, police said.

Pennsylvania municipalities without full-time police forces would have to pay for the state troopers who patrol their streets under a bill that a state House committee narrowly passed Wednesday.

Northampton County Judge Edward Smith called a Bethlehem man's involvement in a Palmer Township home invasion inexplicable and stupid.

A 50-year-old man, described by police as a transient, has been charged with robbing a borough bank on Friday.

An Easton teen was arrested for raping a 17-year-old girl who had passed out during a drinking party two months ago, police said.

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Participating property owners in all eight of Northampton County's public school districts will receive a slightly smaller casino revenue rebate this year when their school property tax bills arrive in coming days, if state estimates hold true.

A second man was arrested for allegedly approaching four people early Sunday morning in a Spruce Street backyard and robbing them at gunpoint.

A Northampton County judge has vacated the up-to-16-year sentence he gave a Palmer Township man who sent explicit videos to a state agent posing as an underage girl.

A Northampton County Prison officer testified Wednesday his lip was split immediately after he stepped inside a cell to collect a food tray from Iman Sharif.

NEW YORK Did The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., move out of a bureau office in the middle of the night and fail to inform the landlord? The competing Express-Times in Easton, Pa., reports the Morning Call closed its Northampton County bureau in Easton last week and didn't tell landlord Peter Koehler.

In his June 17 letter, Jim Gregory calls a bi-county health bureau for Northampton and Lehigh counties a "pathetic plan" and advises "not at this time." What century are he and Ron Angle living in? Pennsylvania has the lowest ratio of public health workers to population in the nation: 37 workers per 100,000 compared to a national average of 138.

An accident involving a motorcycle killed a man in Northampton County last night.

A Bethlehem man who molested a 15-year-old girl stood in court Friday morning and pleaded for just one chance to show he can do good.

The motorist who turned in front of a motorcyclist on Sunday evening causing a fatal crash has been cited for failing to yield but will not face additional charges, Colonial Regional police said Tuesday.

Northampton County Executive Republican candidate J.C. Kelleher has withdrawn from the race against Democratic incumbent John Stoffa.

The Northampton County coroner has ruled the death of a man in Nazareth over the weekend a homicide.

Friends of a city man who died Sunday in a one-car crash crowded his West Ward home as they came to call on his family.