Allentown News

It looks like Allentown's voters will decide if the city needs a tough new clean air ordinance to control and monitor air pollution coming from the planned Delta Thermo Energy waste-to-energy plant.

A photo exhibit highlighting the fight against breast cancer in Pennsylvania will be on display for a week beginning Thursday at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown.

Allentown City Council gave their blessing tonight to the sale of fire training academy land next to Queen City Airport.

In 2000, Bethlehem guitarist John Arnold presented the first Bethlehem Guitar Festival featuring classical guitarists at Moravian College , and he continued the festival through last year.

The driver who was killed along with two of his passengers in an Allentown crash Sunday night was attempting to make an illegal pass moments before losing control, police said today.

The only survivor of a violent crash that killed three people Sunday night was driving without a license, 69 News has learned.

An Allentown woman gave up her right to a preliminary hearing Monday on charges she robbed a nail salon , court records say.

A father and son who admitted they were pimps have been acquitted in New York of sex trafficking after several prostitutes testified they were treated well.

Gov. Tom Corbett wants to get Pennsylvania out of the booze business, but his privatization plan is on life support.

The Second Harvest Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley makes sure a lot of folks in our area don't go hungry but the organization needs a boost of its own.

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski and City Council President Julio Guridy were among the residents and community leaders rallying tonight at City Hall for federal action on comprehensive immigration reform.

A clean air bill proposed by opponents of the planned Allentown waste-to-energy plant may be at odds with state law.

Prosecutors in central Pennsylvania say a man fatally stabbed an 87-year-old relative of a witness in a sexual assault case against him.

An Allentown teenager who just graduated last week drowned at a Whitehall Township pool over the weekend, the Lehigh County Coroner ruled.

Robert Hunter, the lyricist and offstage member of the Grateful Dead, will perform Sept.

The drivers -- Timothy Flores, 22, of the first block of East Susquehanna Street in Allentown , and Chad Fluck, 23, of the 1700 block of East Susquehanna Street in Salisbury Township -- knew each other, Capt.

Reading Fire Department officials have identified the man who was badly burned in a city fire last week.

The Lehigh County Coroner and the Allentown Police Department are currently investigating a car accident that happened Sunday night around 10:40 p.m. An unspeakable crime in Southwest Philadelphia.

"Pa. Supreme Court upholds law requiring judges to retire at age 70": The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this update .

A man suffered a "survivable" gunshot wounds about noon today in the 900 block of Pine Street in Allentown , police Chief Roger MacLean said.