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PA 21-Year-Old Killed When Scooter Hits Utility Pole: Coroner PA 21-Year-Old Killed When Scooter Hits Utility Pole: Coroner
PA 21-Year-Old Killed When Scooter Hits Utility Pole: Coroner An Allentown man was fatally injured when his motor scooter crashed into a utility pole on a city street late on Wednesday, Aug. 30, authorities say.  Rony M. Taveras Santana, 21, hit the pole around 10:30 p.m. near Union Boulevard and North Halstead Street, said Lehigh County Coroner Daniel Buglio.  He was rushed to the emergency department at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg, where he died from his blunt force wounds around 3:45 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, Buglio added. The manner of death was accidental.  Allentown police are investigating the accident. 

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by Mac Bullock
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Police Standoff Ends Peacefully In Allentown Police Standoff Ends Peacefully In Allentown
Police Standoff Ends Peacefully In Allentown Authorities in Allentown responded to the barricaded home of a man experiencing a mental health crisis on Tuesday, Jan. 24, city police said in a release.  It began around noon, when a Pennsylvania Constable was at a home on the 800 block of North Halstead Street to "perform an official action involving a male resident" on the property, Allentown police said. They did not detail or describe the "official action." At some point during the visit, the man "barricaded himself" in the home and threatened to harm the Constable and any other responding law enforcement, according to the releas…

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by Mac Bullock