Freemansburg News

Many people consume alcohol more frequently over the summer months, on account of picnics, barbecues and parties.A However, local police want residents to know that if they decide to drink to excess, they should also decide not to drive.

One by one, twelve jurors affirmed today their decision that George Hitcho Jr. should be put to death for the first-degree murder of Freemansburg police officer Robert Lasso on Aug.

A jury on Thursday sentenced George Hitcho Jr. -- the man convicted of killing a police officer last summer -- to death.

Jurors in eastern Pennsylvania have sentenced a man to death for fatally shooting a police officer last summer.

Defense attorneys for George Hitcho Jr. called two expert witnesses to the stand this morning as testimony nears the end in the sentencing phase of Hitcho's capital murder case.

With mixed emotions, Freemansburg police Chief George Bruneio dedicated the new wing of their police headquarters today to slain officer Robert Lasso .

Defense attorneys for murderer George Hitcho Jr. contended in court today the 46-year-old should be spared the death penalty because cognitive impairments have left him unable to handle emotional duress.

Hours before his murder Aug. 11, Freemansburg police officer Robert Lasso spent a special day with his wife and daughter, Rose, picking up supplies and clothing for the now 7-year-old's approaching school year, his widow said.

The penalty phase in the trial of convicted cop killer George Hitcho is scheduled to begin Monday in Northampton County.

Donald Lasso, father of slain Freemansburg police officer Robert Lasso, looks over a memorial set up outside the police station in the days after the officer died.

Metal hammock stand: Teah of Salisbury Township is looking for a metal hammock stand.

George Hitcho Jr. has been found guilty of first degree murder in the death of Freemansburg police officer Robert Lasso , WFMZ-TV, Channel 69 has reported.

A psychiatrist who examined George Hitch Jr. earlier this year testified this morning in Northampton County Court that the man charged with killing Freemansburg police officer Robert Lasso has limited decision-making abilities because of a series of head traumas.

There's no more startling proof of that than the number of police fatalities in the United States which continued to rise for a second straight year in 2011.

Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli rested his case Tuesday after he called a forensic specialist and a firearms expert to the stand on the second day of the George Hitcho Jr.

Prosecutors have rested their case against an eastern Pennsylvania man charged in the shooting death of a police officer last summer.

Prosecutors in Northampton County started presenting their case Monday in the capital murder trial of a man accused of killing a police officer.

After five days and interviewing 93 candidates, attorneys in George Hitcho Jr.'s murder trial have chosen the jurors who could determine if the Freemansburg man lives or dies.

A Bethlehem man has been arraigned on charges that he stole payroll checks from Magnetic Windings Co., a Palmer Township company.

A The Bethlehem Police Department Runner's Club raised $5,000 for the Robert Lasso Memorial Fund through its 5K run in April and presented those funds to the slain Freemansburg police officer's widow on Tuesday.