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Police & Fire

PA Thieves Wanted For Stealing Thousands Of Dollars In Covid-19, Flu Meds: Police Police are on the lookout for two men they say stole thousands of dollars’ worth of COVID-19 and flu medications from a Pennsylvania grocery store. Derrick Anthony Bleach and Legious R. Minder, both of Allentown, arrived at Giant Food Stores on Lititz Pike in Warwick Township in a dark-colored sedan around 11:50 p.m. on Nov. 27, Northern Lancaster County Regional Police said. The pair walked to the medications aisle, where Bleach took out a large gift bag that had been hidden in the back of his jacket. Bleach was then seen on surveillance footage picking out various medicine boxes and slid…

by Valerie Musson

12/17/2021

Police & Fire

Driver Stops, Stares Down Girls Walking Home In ‘Suspicious’ Hackettstown Incident An older man stopped and stared at three middle school girls walking home Thursday afternoon in what police are calling a “suspicious incident.” The man was behind the wheel of a black Honda Civic when he stopped and stared at the girls in the area of Centenary University near Second and Third Avenues between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., police said. The girls then ran away, and the man turned down Second Avenue and made a left onto Grand Avenue, police said. It was not clear whether the man was trying to follow the girls. The man is described as having an olive skin color and a gray beard and w…

by Valerie Musson

12/17/2021

News

Young NJ Baseball Player Battling Cancer Gets Holiday Surprise From 'Phillies' (Video) A young New Jersey baseball player battling cancer got a one-of-a-kind surprise from the Philadelphia Phillies this week. Marlton baseball player and major Phillies fan Toby Mizrachi, 10, was recently diagnosed with B cell Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and started chemotherapy treatment at the CHOP over Hanukkah. Toby’s favorite team worked alongside the Marlton community to arrange a pep rally parade with his travel team, friends and fifth-grade classmates on Thursday. We recently learned that one of our biggest fans, Toby Mizrachi, is undergoing cancer treatment during what should be... Po…

by Valerie Musson

12/17/2021

Police & Fire

Bethlehem Police Seek ID For ShopRite Wallet Thieves Bethlehem Police are seeking the public’s help identifying two suspects who worked together to steal an elderly woman’s wallet at a local ShopRite. The suspects, pictured above, followed the victim into the foyer of the store on Dec. 2 around 10:15 a.m., Bethlehem Township police said in a release. The female suspect then dropped coins on the ground in front of the victim, whose wallet was taken from her purse by the male suspect while she was helping the woman pick up the coins, police said. The man hid the wallet in his jacket and fled on foot with the other suspect, police said. Anyone…

by Valerie Musson

12/17/2021

Police & Fire

Police Seek ID For Man In Attempted Morris County Break-In Police are seeking the public’s help identifying a man seen trying to break into a vacant commercial space in Morris County. The man pictured above was seen ripping the screen and pushing open an unlocked window of a vacant commercial space next to Arthur’s Tavern in Morris Plains around 6:50 p.m. Monday, the Morris County Sheriff’s Office said in a release. The building had two other windows that were also tampered with, though they weren’t pushed open, authorities said. Customers from adjacent stores witnessed the man’s activity as well, police said. Anyone with information about the ma…

by Valerie Musson

12/17/2021

Obituaries

Northampton County Man Dies From Traumatic Brain Injuries Suffered In 1980s Bike Crash A cyclist who was struck by a car in the 1980s died from traumatic brain injury complications Thursday morning, authorities said. Leath Hixon, Jr. of Nazareth was pronounced dead at the Lehigh Valley Hospice Inpatient Unit in Allentown just before 6:40 a.m. He was 71. Hixon suffered traumatic brain injuries after being struck by a car while riding a bicycle on Northampton Street in Easton in 1986, the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office said. Hixon’s manner of death was determined to be accidental.

by Valerie Musson

12/16/2021

Schools

Somerset County MS Student Charged After Circulating False Threats On Social Media: Prosecutor A 13-year-old Somerset County middle school student was charged after circulating false threats on social media, authorities said. The Franklin Township Middle School student allegedly sent text messages threatening a violent act at the Franklin Middle School Hamilton Street Campus for the next day, Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson said in a Thursday release. The local police department and school detectives conducted a search and determined that the threats were not credible, Robertson said. A follow-up investigation found that the student sent the messages as a prank, auth…

by Valerie Musson

12/16/2021

Police & Fire

Hopatcong Car Blaze Spreads To Woods, Melts Siding Of Nearby Building A Hopatcong car fire spread to a nearby patch of woods and melted the siding of a building before crews doused the blaze Wednesday night, authorities said. The fully involved fire was reported on Brooklyn Mountain Road around 4 p.m., according to the Hopatcong Fire Department, which responded within minutes. Upon arrival, crews found that the fire had spread to a wooded area nearby and melted the siding of an adjacent structure, the department said. The members split up to extinguish both parts of the blaze and ensure that no one was injured. This evening, around 4pm your local volun…

by Valerie Musson

12/16/2021

Schools

Warren County High School Placed Under Lockdown: Police A Warren County high school was placed under lockdown Wednesday morning, police said. Blairstown Township Police conducted a thorough search of the interior and exterior school grounds of North Warren Regional High School as the lockdown was initiated around 10:20 a.m., the department said. No active threat to students, faculty or the facility was found during the search, police said. The department extended additional thanks to state police, the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office, Blairstown Ambulance Corps, Blairstown Hose Company #1 and other responding agencies, as well as to parents f…

by Valerie Musson

12/16/2021

Obituaries

‘Valued And Respected’ Marine Corps Vet, Longtime Trenton Employee Ashley Marshall Dies, 35 US Marine Corps veteran and longtime Trenton employee Ashley Marshall died Tuesday of natural causes at the age of 35. Marshall started her career with the city as a school crossing guard in 2013 before she was appointed to be a parking enforcement officer two years later, Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora said in a statement announcing her death. “Sorrow fills our hearts, a sorrow that is deep and personal,” said Gusciora. Marshall was remembered as a “dedicated team player who brought a smile to those around her each day and made numerous contributions to [the] community.” Trenton Police Dir…

by Valerie Musson

12/16/2021

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