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Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Friday, September 27, 2024

The Real-Time Crime Index Shows Crime Is Down

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FBI statistics shows crime going down , but is it really? That has been the subject of vigorous debates by talking heads and in the Presiden...
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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Pa.Sentencing Comm'n: Majority of Offenders (77%) are White

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Two weeks ago, NorCo Council member Tara Zrinski proposed her latest nonbinding resolution. This one is calling for the legalization, taxati...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Distracted Driver Blamed for Easton Middle School Student's Death

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Two years ago, I treated myself to an iPhone. I became instantly mesmerized. I could do anything from it. Send emails, tweets, even blog. A...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

"High School Drama" Results in Senseless Violence in Bethlehem Township

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Scott Beckerman lives in a beautiful home in Bethlehem Township, within a stone's throw of Barnes and Noble Book Store and a Panera Brea...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Anonymous Benefactor Offers Help to Stolen Car Victim

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Yesterday, I told you the story of a single mother in Allentown whose car was stolen from outside her home as she slept. Though Whitehall ...
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Thursday, February 07, 2013

DA Asks Victims of Facebook Rapist to Come Forward

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David Martinez: The Facebook Rapist By his own admission, David Martinez, age 20, is addicted to sex. He's told police he's ...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Beware of Holiday Scams

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Although Mayor John Callahan's single trash hauler was the main event at the West Bethlehem Block Watch on November 26, Officer Joshua S...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Bethlehem Safest Among 3rd Class Cities Over 30,000

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George and Raven make a new friend Six out of ten Bethlehem residents feel safe, according to a recent survey. That's their percepti...
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Thursday, June 07, 2012

Used Cooking Oil Being Stolen From Local Restaurants

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David Gentile Not all that long ago, restaurants had to pay to have used cooking oil hauled away. But with a rising demand for biofuel, ...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

FBI's Most Wanted List Turns 62 Today

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Houston Press' Hairballs lists eight songs about some of the infamies who made that list.
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Monday, August 01, 2011

Crime Rises Another 3.67% In Bethlehem Thru June

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Is it the casino? It might be called Christmas City, but crime is continuing to climb in Bethlehem. Statistics maintained by the Pennsylv...
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Thursday, January 06, 2011

Bethlehem Leading in 2010's LV Urban Crime

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Yesterday, I told you that during the first nine months of 2010, there was a whopping 145% increase in attempted burglaries over the same pe...
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Bethlehem Has a Burglary Problem

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Just before Christmas , Bethlehem City Council set the wheels in motion to borrow $16 million for annual bills as well as the annual pension...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Allentown, Where Justice Is Delayed and Denied

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LVCI has posted a disturbing blog about an Allentown woman who was assaulted and left for dead. Allentown's finest actually arrested t...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Allentown: "We Are a Neighborhood Under Siege"

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Allentown resident Bill Stauffer, who resides on the 100 bock of S. 16th Street, has a soft-spoken voice, but delivered a powerful message t...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

What King Edwin Doesn't Want You to Know About Those Crimes Stats

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Everywhere he goes, King Edwin tells the huddled masses, "Don't worry. Be happy." He confidently tells them crime is down 20%...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Pa. Mayors Against Illegal Guns Have Message for Specter

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This just in from Mayors Against Illegal Guns : "Today 106 PA Mayors printed an open letter to Senator Specter as a full page ad in the...
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Friday, October 31, 2008

Sea of Blue Rally in Allentown on Sunday

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The Mike Welsh for State Rep. campaign will hold a "Sea of Blue" rally in Allentown on Sunday afternoon. It will focus on Allen...
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Monday, August 25, 2008

Mike Welsh: Answer to Allentown Crime is More Cops, Not Ice Hockey

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Republican Mike Welsh is Jennifer Mann 's official challenger for her state house seat. Mann's legislative district is located almos...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Mayor Ed's Police Plan? Loaded With Bullshit Burgers

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As some of you know, I live in Nazareth, a place Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski - King of Renaissance Square - has disparagingly called ...
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