Police

The two women killed Tuesday evening in a head-on collision in the New Tripoli area of western Lehigh County have been identified by state police.

A pickup truck driver fired a gun at a tractor-trailer Tuesday night at a Route 100 ramp to Route 22 in Upper Macungie Township, according to police radio reports.

They are two men who, according to prosecutors, never wielded a gun during a bloody 2012 firefight outside a Puerto Rican social club in Bethlehem.

A Lehigh County district judge dismissed three of the more serious charges against a man accused of being high on methadone and opiates and crashing into and killing a man who was standing outside his car on Route 22 in South Whitehall Township.

Four men, including two Lafayette College students and a recent graduate, charged with stealing tools and vandalizing a fraternity building, said Tuesday they will apply for a first-time offenders program.

An Upper Bucks AIDS-awareness activist was killed early Tuesday on Interstate 78 in Upper Saucon Township when a tractor-trailer crashed into his stopped vehicle.

Three young men carried out three armed robberies on Jordan Street in Allentown late Monday before they fled north in a red minivan, according to emergency radio reports.

Blood found on porches of two houses in the area of the Pocono Mountains where state police have been searching for more than a month for alleged cop killer Eric Frein does not belong to the suspect, state police said Monday.

A law enforcement officer reported he may have seen fugitive Eric Frein near a Swiftwater post office on Monday, but nothing suspicious was found in a follow-up search of the area, state police said.

A fight over prized pumpkins in an Emmaus pumpkin patch that left one man bloodied from an alleged knife attack landed in Lehigh County Court on Monday.

A Bethlehem teenager charged with trying to rape and murder a Lehigh University student in her off-campus apartment is mentally ill and should not be tried as an adult, his defense attorney said during a hearing Monday.

The scene: The Bethlehem police station, two hours after a chaotic gun battle that killed one woman and wounded five other people.

Aiming for safer school bus stops, state police on Wednesday will ride Poconos buses to watch for motorists illegally passing buses that are loading and unloading students.

A man who planned to sell marijuana to three men in the Lowe's parking lot near Stroudsburg on Saturday night was robbed by his customers, police said.

Two fugitives, one wanted in the shooting of two people in Wilson, the other wanted in the beating of a woman in Easton, were arrested Monday morning in Phillipsburg.

Curtis Gibbs of Allentown got a break this month when he went to court for allegedly slapping state Trooper Joe Bushta's horse during Musikfest.

A man accused of "an inappropriate act" in Upper Macungie Park was arrested Tuesday.

Police have shifted their search for shooting suspect Eric Frein after a man fitting his description was spotted with a rifle Friday night near Pocono Mountain East High School, state police said at a news conference Saturday afternoon.

Bethlehem police opened an investigation early Saturday into who telephoned false reports late Friday and last week of a home invasion and a shooting.

Allentown police's swearing-in and badge-pinning ceremony mixed experience with youth.

Two men died of gunshot wounds in a rural area in the Barto section of eastern Berks County, and state police are asking for the public's help in knowing more about where the men were just before they died.

The first gunshot victim was wheeled into the trauma center at 2:25 a.m.

Bethlehem police began a South Side shooting investigation Friday afternoon after a man showed up at St. Luke's Hospital-Fountain Hill with a gunshot wound.

A 15-year-old Perkasie High School student will be charged as an adult with an attempted rape of a student Friday in the school's bathroom.