Allentown News

The company that built the Cowboys' indoor practice facility that collapsed in May is telling its customers that the fabric structure got a new roof last year because of team concerns about "aesthetics," not structural problems.

A Pennsylvania prosecutor says charges are warranted in the criminal neglect of foreign exchange students in the past school year.

Allentown police converged on the 900 block of Spring Garden Street around 11 p.m. Wednesday after a man's body was discovered in a wooded area north of Martin Luther King Jr.

John P. Karoly, Jr., 59, pleaded guilty today to three counts of willingly filing false federal income tax returns under-reporting his income by approximately $5.2 million, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy.

A former minister for an Allentown church pleaded guilty today in Montgomery County Court to using the Internet to foster a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl and keeping child pornography on his computer.

The Justice Department wants to join a lawsuit filed on behalf of three eastern Pennsylvania boys who say they were raped as first graders.

Tonight, police in Allentown are looking for two bandits who brought guns into a check-cashing store.

A man jogging at the Lehigh Parkway this morning in Allentown discovered the body of a woman who died of a gunshot wound, according to Allentown police.

The U.S. Department of Justice has asked to join a lawsuit against the Allentown School District on behalf of a student who was raped and three other boys who allege they were raped at Central Elementary School.

In what should be a time for fiscal caution, Allentown and its Parks Department is embarking on an ambitious plan to create new maintenance intensive attractions in Cedar Creek Park.

Authorities are investigating the murder of an 18-year-old Bethlehem man found stabbed to death Saturday morning.

Allentown lawyer John Karoly pleaded guilty this morning to tax evasion for failing to report $5 million in income to the IRS.

The stabbing that killed a man in Allentown has been ruled a homicide. The Lehigh County coroner says the body of 18-year-old Antonyo Wright of Bethlehem was found inside a home on Hall Street in Allentown early yesterday.

Sparklers, smoke balls, fountains, spinners and other fireworks filled Nazareth resident Mark Fisher's shopping cart.

Disney star Mitchel Musso's cancelation of a concert next Thursday at Wachovia Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre was part of a decision to scrap the Terrific Teen Tour of upcoming Disney acts, and won't affect his scheduled show Aug.

For the second time in less than two months, an Allentown pet store has been robbed.

A 22-year-old Whitehall Township woman was injured in a crash in south Allentown on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

A Pennsylvania law firm is to pay $155,000 to settle allegations that it illegally funneled money to the presidential campaign of former Missouri Rep.

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski continues to out-raise his Republican rival Tony Phillips by a five-to-one margin, latest campaign finance reports show.

An Allentown man accused of using his 1-year-old son as a shield as police officers, with guns drawn, tried to arrest him after a domestic dispute has pleaded guilty to three charges.