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Services for Jesse Reed, Whitehall soldier killed in Afghanistan, will be Friday
A month ago Jesse D. Reed sent his dad a picture of a half dozen soldiers sitting in a hole a roadside bomb had blasted out of the earth in Afghanistan. "We already lost several trucks," the Army...
View ArticleHomicide victim's family establishes memorial fund to benefit animals
As the investigation into the slaying of Jennifer L. Snyder continues, her family is taking steps to see that the Lower Macungie woman's passion for helping animals lives on. Snyder's family has set up...
View ArticleAllentown family killed in explosion remembered fondly
Their computer class needed a jolt of energy, and Allen High School sophomores Katherine Cruz and Jennifer Cespedes devised a way to provide it. After pulling up a YouTube video of a once popular girly...
View ArticleUGI removes cracked gas pipe at Allentown blast site
Workers late Monday removed a cracked natural gas pipe linked to last week's blast that killed five people and destroyed eight homes in center city Allentown. At 8:50 p.m., a backhoe with a nylon sling...
View ArticlePhiladelphia flash mob racial issue was ignored
An odd discovery involving the Lehigh Valley evolved from concerns about Philadelphia's flash mob attacks. The vicious assaults, by groups of young black men against whites and a few Asians, resulted...
View ArticleIn memoriam: Patrick B. Ytsma
It was only a few steps. But it might as well have been a few miles. For this was the longest walk of police Chief George Bruneio's life. Looking unsteady, he stood before the phalanx of law...
View ArticleCardinal Bevilacqua funeral arrangements announced
Arthur Schlicher still was grieving over his father's death when the offer from Lifestone by Stefan came in the mail about a week after the funeral. The tombstone engraving company near Philadelphia...
View ArticleFuneral director, dentist, notary sanctioned by state licensing boards
Derek Brown, a 2010 Souderton High School graduate who made nine starts for East Stroudsburg University's football team in 2011, died Thursday afternoon of injuries sustained in a one-car accident...
View ArticlePurple lights coming down the road as funeral-procession markers
Q: It has always been my understanding that funeral processions had the right of way, even if they were going through red lights. Some time ago, northbound on 15th Street, the light at Hamilton Street...
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Why did these doctors, accountants, notaries and others get in trouble?
— When Hurricane Irene's torrential rains transformed the sleepy Ottauquechee River into a roaring wall of gray-green water a year ago, the Simon Pearce glass and pottery gallery's future was in doubt....
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Learn why these local nurses, social worker and funeral director were...
While some might think a career focused on bereavement would be depressing, Sylvia Havlish has discovered just the opposite. The Lower Macungie Township woman, who has spent more than 33 years helping...
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