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UPDATE: Police Investigate Third Bomb Threat In 3 Weeks At Lehigh School UPDATE: Police Investigate Third Bomb Threat In 3 Weeks At Lehigh School
Update: Police Investigate Third Bomb Threat In 3 Weeks At Lehigh School A Lehigh County high school was evacuated following a bomb threat Monday, Nov. 14, just days after a similar threat canceled classes last Friday.  Lehigh Career and Technical Institute in Schnecksville was closed Monday after administrators received "multiple threats" at around 9:30 a.m., said school administrators in a post on the LCTI website.  As LCTI is a vocational school that draws students from several county school districts, students that were already on campus Monday morning were sent to their regular high schools instead, administrators said. The emergency closure cam…

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by Mac Bullock
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Charges Dropped Against Injured Probationer Teen For Pennsylvania Amusement Park Shooting Charges Dropped Against Injured Probationer Teen For Pennsylvania Amusement Park Shooting
Charges Dropped Against Injured Probationer Teen For Pennsylvania Amusement Park Shooting All charges have been dropped against a 15-year-old boy who was allegedly involved in a shooting at a popular Pennsylvania amusement park on Saturday, Sept. 24, court records show following a preliminary hearing on Nov. 9 at 12:30 p.m. Darryl Pirl, 15, of West Mifflin, was on juvenile probation when he illegally obtained a gun, brought it to Kennywood Park, and fired at a group of teens he was feuding with, Allegheny County police alleged. "The Commonwealth did not prove burden in the case which led to the charges being dismissed," Magisterial District Judge Kim Berkeley Clark said accordi…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Former Pennsylvania Officer Charged With Stalking And Harassing Ex-GF Former Pennsylvania Officer Charged With Stalking And Harassing Ex-GF
Former Pennsylvania Officer Charged With Stalking And Harassing Ex-GF A former Bethlehem police officer has been charged with stalking and harassing another police department employee — someone he used to be in a relationship with, authorities announced. Noah Klingborg, 27, is expected to turn himself into the Bethlehem City Police Department on Tuesday afternoon, Northampton County District Attorney Terry Houck said in a press release. Klingborg, of Bethlehem, is accused of stalking and harassing a civilian employee of the Bethlehem City Police Department that he had a relationship with between December 2021 and ended in June 2022, the release said. Af…

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by Valerie Musson
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13 Chinese Nationals Charged With Multiple Acts Of Espionage By Feds In Washington, NJ, NY 13 Chinese Nationals Charged With Multiple Acts Of Espionage By Feds In Washington, NJ, NY
13 Chinese Nationals Charged With Multiple Acts Of Espionage By Feds In Washington, NJ, NY Thirteen people, including members of China’s security and intelligence services, have been charged with trying to recruit professors and others in the United States to act as agents for their country, federal authorities in New York, New Jersey and Washington, DC announced. Tales of international intrigue include allegations that the defendants plotted to steal documents from a federal prosecutor's office to subvert a criminal investigation into a major Chinese company. Some of them are also charged in a spy-versus-spy encounter involving a $41,000 bribe in Bitcoin paid to an American…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Bethlehem Shooting Suspect Arrested In Montco: Police Bethlehem Shooting Suspect Arrested In Montco: Police
Bethlehem Shooting Suspect Arrested In Montco: Police A Montgomery County man was charged in connection with a shooting in the Lehigh Valley, authorities have announced.  Christopher Rodriguez is in Bethlehem police custody, the department announced in a Facebook post on Friday, Oct. 14.  Officials in Montgomery County were investigating Rodriguez, "who was threatening harm to his significant other and her family," Bethlehem police said. The investigators eventually "overheard" Rodriguez admit to shooting a friend in Bethlehem early in the morning on Friday, Oct. 7.  When arrested, Rodriguez had a handgun that matched the calib…

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by Mac Bullock
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Young Teacher Drugged With Fentanyl, Killed On Tinder Date: Police Young Teacher Drugged With Fentanyl, Killed On Tinder Date: Police
Young Teacher Drugged With Fentanyl, Killed On Tinder Date: Police Two years ago, a 24-year-old woman went on a Tinder date and less than 24 hours later she was dead, on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, her date was arrested and charged with homicide, police say. Emily "Emmy" Pritsch was outdoorsy; loving water sports and hiking. She enjoyed music, art, and walking her dog Sparkles. She was a 2018 Temple University graduate who was passionate about her job teaching theater to students in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood through the non-profit Playworks. She also liked spending time with her family, and making seemingly everyone who knew her feel like her best f…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Police Cruisers 'Engulfed In Flames' At Training Academy In Pennsylvania Police Cruisers 'Engulfed In Flames' At Training Academy In Pennsylvania
Police Cruisers 'Engulfed In Flames' At Training Academy In Pennsylvania Three police cruisers we're burned in a parking lot directly adjacent to a Police Training Academy in western Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Sept. 28, authorities say. Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire and Pittsburgh Police were called to the vehicle fire in Zone 1 shortly after 2:30 a.m., according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. Upon arrival they found three Pittsburgh police cruisers "parked just outside the Academy building were fully engulfed in flames," as stated in the release. "Firefighters extinguished the fire in each cruiser and no one was injured. There was no damage to the building," au…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Man Shot In Reading, Possible Suspect In Custody: Police Man Shot In Reading, Possible Suspect In Custody: Police
Man Shot In Reading, Possible Suspect In Custody: Police A possible suspect is in custody in Reading after a shooting left one man injured on Tuesday, Sept. 13, authorities said. Officers responded to the shooting scene on the 1100 block of Muhlenberg Street, where they found a 41-year-old gunshot victim around 8 p.m., a city spokesperson said citing the Reading Police Department. The unidentified man was taken to Reading Hospital, where he is expected to survive, police said. Police had a person in custody as of 9:25 p.m., but they couldn't immediately confirm if that person was the shooter. There is no risk to public safety and the investigat…

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by Nicole Acosta
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PA Man With Disabilities Loses Testicle After Beating With Metal Rod By Caretakers: AG PA Man With Disabilities Loses Testicle After Beating With Metal Rod By Caretakers: AG
PA Man With Disabilities Loses Testicle After Beating With Metal Rod By Caretakers: AG Two "direct support counselors" beat a man under their care with a metal rod so badly that his testicle needed to be surgically removed, according to a release by Pennsylvania's Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022.  August Thorne Young of North Versailles and Eric Walker of Pittsburgh were working for Taylor Maleski Home, LLC, an organization that provides supportive home services to individuals with intellectual disabilities in Allegheny, Indiana, and Westmoreland counties, when they assaulted the man with a metal rod on Nov. 2, 2021, according to the…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
BF Of NJ Murder Victim Found Dead In PA: Police BF Of NJ Murder Victim Found Dead In PA: Police
BF Of NJ Murder Victim Found Dead In PA: Police The last person to see a New Jersey woman before she was beaten to death in her home was found dead in Pennsylvania, authorities said. Peter Lestician, 53 — a teacher at South Brunswick High School an area softball coach — had been a person of interest in the death of his girlfriend, Sheila Maguire, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw said. Lestician's body was found Friday, Sept. 2 in the front seat of a locked car near an abandoned barn near an ATV trail in Cooper Township in Clearfield County, by two men riding four-wheelers in the area, said Bradshaw alongside …

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Gunman Shoots Woman in Head, Then Himself While Being Arrested In Reading: Police Gunman Shoots Woman in Head, Then Himself While Being Arrested In Reading: Police
Gunman Shoots Woman in Head, Then Himself While Being Arrested In Reading: Police A 40-year-old man shot a 55-year-old woman in the head and then did the same to himself while he was being taken into custody, authorities in Reading said. Officers dispatched to 112 Park Ave. for a shooting found the woman, who had suffered a gunshot wound to the head on Saturday, Aug. 20, police said.  Officers began providing medical treatment to the female victim and investigating the incident. While officers were taking the suspect into custody, he grabbed the firearm and shot himself in the head, police said. Both the victim and shooter were taken to the hospital, where the…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Suspects Sought After Woman Attacked At Lehigh Valley Apartment Complex: Police Suspects Sought After Woman Attacked At Lehigh Valley Apartment Complex: Police
Suspects Sought After Woman Attacked At Lehigh Valley Apartment Complex: Police Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a pair of suspects who they say assaulted a woman at an apartment complex in the Lehigh Valley. The 41-year-old woman was getting out of her car in the Valley Ridge Apartments parking lot in Lower Macungie Township when she was attacked by two masked men around 11:20 p.m. Saturday, July 30, Pennsylvania State Police said. The pair fled the scene in a dark-colored sedan, police said. The woman was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest for treatment. Police did not specify whether this was a targeted incident or a random…

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by Nicole Acosta