Allentown News

Damn, talk about taking the wedding vows, "til death do us part" a bit too seriously.

It's time to take a look back at the stories making headlines this week in the 69 News Week In Review.

William J. Tonkin, a former South Whitehall Township police officer who along with his wife is accused of stealing $850,000 from South Whitehall over 13 years, was arraigned Wednesday by District Judge David Howells of Allentown.

NBCNEWS.COM - Actress Amanda Bynes appeared in court briefly Friday morning after a wild Thursday night confrontation with police at her New York apartment.

A student group known as the 'United Youth' took to the stage at the Holiday Inn in Allentown Friday to present its idea for a 2 acre park near the city's riverside.

Robert Sidney Pace shows a picture of his father Sidney Pace, an Iwo Jima Marine who is the subject of Robert's book titled “Finding My Father.” As Memorial Day approached this year, I happened to meet a veteran of Iwo Jima, still the iconic battle of World War II and the most famous in all the storied history of the United States ... (more)

The forum is an opportunity for residents to offer candidate characteristics, as well as issues they feel the new police chief will have to address.

South Whitehall Parks and Recreation is sponsoring the Allentown Band in concert at 7 p.m. on Sunday at Springhouse Middle School , 1200 Springhouse Road.

The city will host its first community input on the search process Thursday at 6 p.m. in City Council Chambers.

Five people - including one allegedly involved in a York jewelry store robbery - have been arrested in the robbery of more than $4 million in jewelry, watches and diamonds from a Connecticut store, federal authorities said Thursday.

Allentown School District is failing its minority children, and has been failing them for far too long, according to three leaders of the city's black and Latino communities.

Four Lehigh Valley men are accused of using duct tape and pillow cases on four people in a kidnapping before a jewelry store robbery, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Connecticut reports.

A Lehigh Valley clinic that caters to veterans invited the public to check things out.

A fire in Allentown led firefighters to the body of a 46-year-old male in an apartment building Thursday.

Contact Information: Liz Fonseca 484-664-3108 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LOCAL STUDENT GRADUATES FROM MUHLENBERG COLLEGE Allentown, Pa.- - Muhlenberg College celebrated its 165th Commencement on Sunday, May 19th, 2013.

Federal agents and local police arrested five men Wednesday, including four in Pennsylvania as a result of their involvement in a $5 million Fairfield jewelry store robbery and Meriden robbery in April.

Jurors in eastern Pennsylvania are deliberating the fate of a woman accused of fatally stabbing her fiance on their wedding day.

One of two people charged in connection with a double homicide in Allentown says he's guilty.

Matthew Royer was found one week after he went missing. He headed from college in Rhode Island for home in Montgomery County, Pa.

Candidates hoping to serve as Lehigh County executive for the rest of this year will be interviewed in public on June 10 by county commissioners.