Police: Investigating report of gunshots fired during party
Bethlehem police are investigating reports of a handgun fired during a crowded party early Sunday morning with students from Northampton Area Community College. Police said witnesses reported two...
View ArticlePhilly native Jill Kelley at center of Petraeus scandal
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, is under investigation for alleged inappropriate communication with a woman at the center...
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Obama isn't paying your electric bill
Uncle Sam is a freewheeling spendthrift, but he isn't willing to pick up the tab for your electric bill. In this election year, scammers have tricked people nationwide into thinking President Barack...
View ArticleTax identity theft on the rise
Police in the Lehigh Valley for the first time have the ability to pursue people who are ripping off the government by filing fake tax returns and collecting refunds they don't deserve. While that may...
View ArticleAllentown man, 46, dies after street beating; suspect charged with homicide
Lynda Devarie said she held her father as he lay dying a few blocks from their south Allentown home early Wednesday. The 22-year-old had been out with her father, Juan A. Devarie, her cousin and...
View ArticleTerrorist plot stemmed from online fascination
"Kill him." The American who called herself Jihad Jane read the words on her computer screen. Colleen LaRose was fiddling on the Internet, passing time in her duplex in Montgomery County, when the call...
View ArticleFBI's visit spurs Jihad Jane to move on murder plot
Second in a four-part series Colleen LaRose, the middle-aged Montgomery County woman who called herself Jihad Jane, hurried to the computer in her Pennsburg duplex, where she had spent months...
View ArticleJihad Jane embarks on murder mission
Colleen LaRose answered the door of her Pennsburg duplex to find an FBI agent standing on the porch. He had questions about her interest in Islamic websites. For LaRose, a Montgomery County woman whose...
View ArticleJihad Jane, co-conspirators await their fates
Last of a four-part series When the flight from London landed in Philadelphia on October 15, 2009, the pilot asked everyone to stay seated. A passenger was ill, he explained, and paramedics needed the...
View ArticlePolice: Man shot in foot, uncooperative with investigation
A 20-year-old man who was shot in the foot Tuesday in Allentown, but has refused to cooperate with the police investigation, police said. Allentown police were dispatched at 4:55 p.m. to the 600 block...
View ArticlePolice: Allen High student shot near school
Allentown police said an Allen High School student was shot Wednesday about a block from the school. Police said the victim, a girl, was shot in the leg in the area of 16th and Turner streets, near...
View ArticleLatest computer scam extorts money using fake threats from FBI
If your computer suddenly freezes and the screen says the FBI has locked it because you broke the law, ignore the threat that you'll be locked up unless you pay up. It's the latest scam. A Whitehall...
View ArticleRecords: State troopers admitted hiring prostitutes overseas
HARRISBURG — Three state police lieutenants — including the former head of the elite detail that guards the Pennsylvania governor — were investigated by the FBI and the state police for their...
View ArticlePenn State faces long road in putting Sandusky scandal behind
More than a year after the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal broke, Penn State faces a government probe, deadlines and legal challenges that show university leaders have a long way to go in putting the tawdry...
View ArticleDonate cautiously after tragedies such as Newtown
If the heartbreaking school shooting in Newtown, Conn., has left you feeling helpless, you may be inclined to donate to help the community recover. As with any national tragedy, you must proceed...
View ArticleSandusky lawyer claims defense prep rushed
BELLEFONTE, Centre County — Jerry Sandusky's defense lawyer testified Thursday he was unable to wade through more than 12,000 pages of documents turned over to the defense team in the months before his...
View ArticleFree FBI Child ID app available on iTunes and for Android devices
South Whitehall Township announced on its website a new Federal Bureau of Investigation Child ID app, available free of charge on iTunes. The app is also available for Android devices, according to the...
View ArticleFreeh report: 'An active agreement to conceal' at Penn State
Special investigator Louis Freeh said Joe Paterno and top Penn State administrators covered up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky for more than a decade to protect the university. “The...
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