Allentown News

Growing up in Allentown, Pa., during the 1960s, in a town that abutted the city of Bethlehem, with its mammoth black steel mill that hugged the banks of the Lehigh River, one could see the orange glow as the factory to the east cranked sheets and beams of American metal.

After stops in Northumberland and Lancaster counties, the governor paid a visit to the 69 News studios near Allentown on Friday.

A A 19-year-old woman is accused of stealing more than $4,000 from the First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union by drawing cash out of her account from a deposited check that turned out to be bogus , according to court records.

Defense attorneys are fighting a ruling that 30 pounds of marijuana recovered from an Allentown man's car may be used as evidence against him.

Freedom High School yearbooks: Sam of Allentown is looking for Freedom High School yearbooks from 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994.

There's been mixed reaction to President Obama's so-called contraceptive compromise.

Making a documentary on any subject is a difficult task, as I've come to learn firsthand over the past few years.

Work on the structurally deficient Cedar Crest Boulevard Bridge over Cedar Creek in South Whitehall and Allentown has been postponed until further notice.

A The city Planning Commission on Thursday unanimously approved plans by the Bethlehem Moravians to build a new nursing home that will specialize in caring for patients with Alzheimer's Disease .

The latest teen sensation to jump from the small screen to the musical stage will be coming to Allentown this year.

But it appears few voters know any of the six men seeking the GOP nod, according to a Tribune-Review/WPXI-TV poll conducted Feb.

While the city has dealt with explosions before, technology brought the blast at 13th and Allen streets closer to home for many emergency workers.

February 9, 2011 is a night that I will remember for the rest of my life. I walked back into the newsroom after finishing my story for the ten o'clock newscast.

Residents gathered Thursday night to remember the victims at two memorials, one at the blast site and one at a local church.

Star of the new sci-fi film 'Chronicle,' Allentown native Dane DeHaan is on a roll, with three other films set for release this year and comparisons to Leonard DiCaprio When Dane DeHaan was a student at Emmaus High School, he couldn't wait for classes to be over so he could dash off to Allentown's Theatre Outlet or Civic Theatre for rehearsals.

Andrew Barlow of Catasauqua plays all of the percussion roles in 'Blast!', which comes to the State Theatre in Easton on Friday.

Gerald Broadwater, 62, is accused of stealing from Fort Washington businesses and implicated in similar incidents in other states.

A civil suit in the deaths of two New Jersey motorcycle club members names the man charged in that crash that killed them and a trio of Pennsylvania bars.

Allentown City Council gave an informal thumbs up to a proposed 35-year deal to use city trash to power a waste-to-energy plant in the city.

Ron Sunshine and His Orchestra will be at the Allentown Jewish Community Center at 7 p.m. Feb.