Allentown News

Louise Cuff doesn't drink, but she wanted to try the DUI simulator at Saturday's inaugural Police Day at town park.

Tuesday, May 21 is primary election day in Pennsylvania. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Poll Problems? Contact the Lehigh County voter registration office at 610-782-3194. Upper Macungie Races Upper Macungie Supervisor : 1 incumbent and 1 challenger in the Republican primary.

It happened just after 11 Saturday night at a Chinese restaurant on the 1700 block of Liberty Street in Allentown.

Police say an eastern Pennsylvania woman tried to poison her husband and daughter with burritos laced with prescription medicine.

Vastly different women united by the common thread of motherhood - a new mom, a teacher whose mother said she'd never get married, a mother who lost a daughter, a battered mom, a women putting her mother in a home and a daughter with two mothers - are some of the characters in "Mommalogues," a locally written play getting its New York premiere.

Incumbent Lehigh County Commissioner David Jones faces a challenge from Juan P. Camacho for the Democratic nomination for the county board's District 3 seat.

Workers evacuated the Lehigh Co. Humane Society Saturday afternoon. It's not an actual emergency, but a drill to prepare for one.

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, Bethlehem, needs volunteers to make phone calls inviting Lehigh Valley corporations/employees to the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Kickoff Breakfast.

Owner Posocco Equities successfully petitioned the South Whitehall Planning Commission Thursday to rezone 11 of the 40-acre development to allow higher density housing.

The Allentown School District is right now faced with what has been termed a budgetary issue, but seems more like a question about vision - how will the district support its students in attaining the finest possible education now and in the decades to come? At this critical moment, leaders in the district have an opportunity to invest in teachers ... (more)

Cynthia Mota was visiting family in Venezuela last month when she came down with the shingles.

The Lehigh Valley Labor Council is slamming a recent court decision that says workplaces no longer have to display union education posters.

Whoever becomes Easton's next district judge will likely spend a lot of time dealing with unpaid parking tickets.

Upper Macungie fire officials said a tractor trailer carrying pallets of vehicle batteries caught on fire late Thursday night at Millard Refrigerated Services , located at 7132 Ruppsville Road in Allentown.

In one of the most contested races in the May 21 primary, four Republican candidates are seeking their party's nomination for a Lehigh County Commissioner seat in District 5. On the Democratic side, two candidates are seeking their party's nod for the seat.

A 3-year-old who almost drowned in the Jordan Creek is alive thanks to two Good Samaritans and a police officer.

A former Best Western hotel manager had a harrasment citation formally dropped Thursday by Magisterial District Judge Michael Faulkner after the alleged victim failed to file charges.

If you want to stop head-on collisions on Allentown's Basin Street, install concrete median barriers, argues City Council vice president Ray O'Connell. "Concrete barriers stop cars," declared O'Connell at Wednesday night's City Council meeting.

An intoxicated Orefield woman was arrested Tuesday night after causing a ruckus and resisting arrest in the Holiday Inn in center-city Allentown.

Two incumbent Bethlehem city councilmen-Bob Donchez and J. William Reynolds-are seeking the Democratic Party nomination to be the city's next mayor.