Easton News

Jobi and Elizabeth Fretz patiently waited Sunday on Northampton Street in Easton with their 7-year-old son, Joseph, and 3-year-old daughter, Cora.

Construction of a long-planned trail along the Bushkill Creek, linking Easton's downtown and West Ward neighborhoods, might begin within a matter of months, city officials said tonight.

Police take both robbery suspects into custody today within blocks of each other on Easton's College Hill.

Don't tell Larry Holmes that the balloons flanking the stage at his birthday party Friday night spelled out his age.

A man fired from his job Friday morning armed himself with a box cutter and held Palmer police at bay, prompting the lockdown of an area school, police said.

Police from Easton and Palmer Township are fanning out in Hackett Park in the city this morning in search of a suspect who may have fired a gunshot.

Focus and relax with a new series of jazz CDs designed to complement yoga by the David Leonhardt Jazz Trio.

The Easton Main Street Initiative will honor a Downtown salon today with October's Golden Bloom Award.

Police on Wednesday captured two armed robbery suspects less than an hour after a noontime holdup at the Stewartsville Deli.

Steve Parkansky is a former Easton police officer who could become Wilson Borough's next police chief.

City planning commissioners approved plans Wednesday for a trail along the Bushkill Creek Corridor and recommended the zoning hearing board grant the necessary zoning approvals.

Two men who robbed a New Jersey deli this afternoon were arrested about an hour later in Easton, New Jersey State Police said.

A Whitehall Township man accused of robbing the Lafayette Ambassador Bank this summer wants the charges against him thrown out.

A man suffering from two stab wounds collapsed tonight in a Downtown Easton McDonald's, according to emergency radio broadcasts and the manager there.

Joan Orie Melvin, a Republican judge from Western Pennsylvania, prevailed in the Philadelphia suburbs yesterday to claim a decisive win in the hard-fought battle for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court.

EASTON Driver charged after allegedly falling asleep at McDonald's An Easton man was charged with drunken driving after police found him asleep in the drive-through lane at a city McDonald's restaurant, police said.

Plans for Easton's controversial Riverwalk parking deck and bus terminal have been resurrected at a new location on S. Third Street, officials announced Thursday, in a move that won approval from even some of the project's former critics.

Cheryl Spadt lost her 8-year-old cousin to leukemia more than 10 years ago, but time has done nothing to blunt the pain of the loss.

The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office says it has broken up a $2.5 million marijuana distribution ring that moved the drug from New York to the Easton area and then resold it on Kutztown University's campus.

PHOTO GALLERY More photos of the Phillipsburg -Easton and Allentown Halloween parades.