Allentown News

An Allentown woman has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of her 14-month-old son who died after a bedroom dresser fell on him while his mother allegedly left him and a sibling alone in an apartment for more than two hours.

Q: I read an interesting article recently on cell phones and driving. It cited a study concluding that using a cell phone while driving is not a major cause of auto accidents.

Allentown police are investigating a suspicious death in the 900 block of N 5th Street this evening.

Jose Alvarado put a loaded handgun in a backpack that held his 8-year-old son's video games, authorities say.

Mar. 11--Surely you've heard the saying about excrement flowing downhill. The Heller family of South Whitehall Township is living it, literally and politically.

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Traffic backs up minutes ago on Route 22 at 15th Street, in Allentown, while near the Macarthur Road / Seventh Street interchange, there are no cars on the eastbound lanes.

An Allentown woman left her two toddlers locked in a bedroom for several hours in November while she ran errands, returning to find her son crushed by a 160-pound dresser that fell over, authorities said.

A Hellertown woman who supplied workers to an Allentown company overbilled the firm by $4,400 for their services last year and kept the money for herself, according to a police arrest affidavit.

An Allentown woman is charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly leaving her 14-month-old son alone for more than two hours when a dresser fell on him and he died, Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin announced this morning in a news conference at Lehigh County Courthouse.

A standoff in Allentown ends with an arrest. but not the one police were expecting.

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In this April 1981 file photo, U.S. Bureau of Mines' John Stockalis, right, and Dan Lewis drop a thermometer through a hole on Main Street in Centralia, Pa., to measure the heat from a shaft mine blaze that burns under the town.

A fire broke out in a row home in the 600 block of Greenleaf Street in Allentown around 8:30 this morning.

William Allen High School students returned to class today minus one of their own.

A 24-year-old man was charged last week with sexually assaulting a girl in an apartment in Allentown, according to court records.

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As the parents of a slain Allen High School student prepare to fly to their native Puerto Rico to bury their son, the couple and residents of the blue collar south Allentown neighborhood anxiously await answers about the killing.

Police in eastern Pennsylvania are investigating the shooting death of an Allentown youth.

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