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South Jersey Ocean Spray Plant Moving To Pennsylvania In 2013
BORDENTOWN, N.J. (CBS) – Ocean Spray is closing a plant in Burlington County and crossing the river to Pennsylvania. It’s a big economic blow and those who depend on the plant for their livelihoods are...
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Phillies Reactivate Shane Victorino From DL
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The Phillies have officially announced that centerfielder Shane Victorino has been activated off the 15-day disabled list. To make room for him on the roster, infielder Pete Orr...
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Weekend Storm Update: 9:00 A.M. Saturday
By Carol Erickson The rain is falling, heavily at times this morning. The temperatures have dropped into the upper 30′s north and west of Philadelphia with a mix falling now in Reading and Allentown....
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Snow Is Headed Our Way!
By Kate Bilo PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Today was certainly the calm before the storm – lots of sunshine and blue skies, but it was COLD outside! If you look on Live Mega Doppler 3 this evening, you can see...
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PA State Supreme Court Orders Special Elections To Proceed For Six State...
By Tony Romeo HARRISBURG, Pa (CBS) — The state Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that special elections to fill six vacant Pennsylvania House seats – including four in the Philadelphia region — be...
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Dom Brown Showing Signs at AAA
By Matt Leon PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Phillies have had to call up more than their fair share of players from AAA during this season of injury and ineffectiveness. However, one of those players has NOT...
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Howard Continues Rehab Assignment With Lehigh Valley Tonight
By Matt Leon PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – For a second straight game, Ryan Howard will be an IronPig. The Phillies first baseman is set to continue his injury rehabilitation assignment tonight with Triple-A...
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Cloyd With An Impressive Resume For AAA Lehigh Valley
By Matt Leon PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – For much of his career in the Phillies farm system, right-handed pitcher Tyler Cloyd was NOT a name you heard thrown around when the discussion turned to the top...
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Phillies Agree To 1-Year Deal With 3B Frandsen
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies have agreed to an $850,000, one-year contract with third baseman Kevin Frandsen. The Phillies announced the move on Tuesday. Frandsen had been eligible for...
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Lehigh Valley Principal Urges Parents To Stop Giving Children Alcohol
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (CBS) – In a message through a local high schools PTO newsletter, the principal of Freedom High School urged parents to stop providing kids with alcohol. Principal Michael LaPorta wrote...
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Storm Causes Slippery Conditions, Not Much Accumulation Across The Area
By Natasha Brown, Elizabeth Hur and Diana Rocco PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Snow fell across the region Friday night, causing many problems, in some areas more than others. In Doylestown, Bucks County it was...
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Massive Sinkhole Swallows Part Of Woman’s Driveway In Bethlehem
By Oren Liebermann BETHLEHEM, Pa. (CBS) – Doris Jenkins recently put an addition on her Bethlehem Township home. Now, it seems she will need a new driveway as well. “Hopefully, everything will be all...
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Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs Introduce Urinal Gaming
By Spike Eskin PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – There are a lot of things I like about my job. I’ve got to say that writing a headline called “Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs Introduce Urinal Gaming,” is one of the things...
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$7 Million Mexico-to-Lehigh Valley Meth Ring Busted
HARRISBURG, Pa., (CBS) – A crystal methamphetamine ring, which stretched from Mexico to the Lehigh Valley, has been broken up by state narcotics agents, the PA Attorney General announced on Wednesday....
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Goose Couple Gone Missing In The Lehigh Valley
BETHLEHEM, Pa., (CBS) – The search is on tonight for a pair of geese gone missing in the Lehigh Valley. Thieves made off with the beloved lawn ornaments from a home in Bethlehem, Pa. Goosetav and...
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Carlos Ruiz Activated From Disabled List
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz has been activated from the disabled list, and will be available for Tuesday night’s game against the Nationals. To make room on the roster, Steven...
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IronPigs Giving Away A Free Funeral To One ‘Lucky’ Fan
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – There are plenty of giveaways at baseball games that are fan favorites. Bobbleheads, t-shirts, and hats will all help a baseball team sell tickets to a game, if the play on the...
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Search Continues for Missing Lehigh Valley Teacher
By Kim Glovas NAZARETH, Pa. (CBS) – A Lehigh Valley high school teacher who went backpacking in California’s Eastern Sierras earlier this summer, has been missing for over a month. Thirty-nine-year-old...
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Phils Fans, Players Optimistic With Sandberg Moving Forward
By Pat Loeb PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A lot of fans were surprised Sunday, as they arrived for the Phillies final home game, to learn Ryne Sandberg officially got the manager’s job. The fans overwhelmingly...
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Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs Embrace The Bacon
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – If you ever stay up late, or wake up very early, chances are you’ve seen the commercial for the “Bacon Bowl.” The bacon bowl is a bowl, made of bacon. This exists because people...
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Police: 4 Arrested In One Hour At Pa. Bar Over St. Patrick’s Day Weekend
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (CBS) – According to a police report, four people were arrested over the course of one hour at a Lehigh Valley bar early Saturday morning. Johnny Salazar-Savinon, 24, was arrested around...
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Rain, Possible Snow And A Lunar Eclipse Moving In
By Justin Drabick PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Today is the 4th day in a row of 70 degrees or higher, the first time since early October 2013. We have a few more hours left of the warm temperatures before the...
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Phillies Send Struggling Freddy Galvis Down To The Minors
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Phillies optioned infielder Freddy Galvis to Lehigh Valley (AAA) on Friday. The Phillies start a three game series in New York against the Mets Friday night, and a...
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Lehigh Valley Bacon Race Takes Concept Of Jog And Hog To Whole New Level
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Well, this is one race that certainly isn’t good for your health. Minor League Baseball team the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs is planning the first-ever “Bacon 5K Challenge.” But this...
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Braves Rout Phillies 10-3 In Doubleheader Opener
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Justin Upton had two hits and three RBIs, and the Atlanta Braves were helped by two straight Ryan Howard errors in a 10-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in the first game of...
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Police Arrest Murder Suspect, Child Abductor With Local Ties In Florida
HUDSON, Fla. (CBS/AP) — Police say they’ve arrested a man with local ties who’s a suspect in a quadruple murder in the Tampa Bay area and a four-year-old autistic boy believed to be his son has been...
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IronPigs Step Up To The Plate For A Local Farmer
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Todd Hedrick, had his farm violated when someone shot four of his pigs on Saturday. The shooting left two of the pigs dead, while a third had to be put down later due to the...
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Lehigh Valley Community Creates Victory On The Football Field For Student...
By Chelsea Karnash SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (CBS) – Salisbury High School’s football team didn’t win Friday’s game against Southern Lehigh, but it’s doubtful anyone will remember that. What they will...
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Bethlehem Sinkhole Swallows Truck, Forces Evacuations
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — A sinkhole partly swallowed a utility truck and forced the evacuation of 30 people after it struck, but did not break, a gas line in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. Officials...
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Philadelphia Area Can Claim A Piece Of Spieth’s Green Jacket
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Masters Tournament on CBS was one of the best of all time thanks to the 21-year-old champion, Jordan Spieth. Spieth declared that a win at Augusta was his life dream when he...
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Police: DUI Being Probed In Crash That Injured Pa. Lawmaker
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a motorcycle crash on an eastern Pennsylvania interstate that injured a state senator is being investigated as a possible case of driving under the influence....
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Police Pull Woman And Infant From River After Mother Tosses Child In
http://media.philadelphia.cbslocal.com/CBSPHL_20150504075018673AA.mp4 By Mike Dougherty ALLENTOWN, PA (CBS) — According to the Allentown Police Department, a woman stopped along the Hamilton Street...
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Fuel Spill Closes NE Extension Northbound Between Quakertown And Lehigh Valley
MILFORD, PA (CBS) — The Northeast extension northbound between Quakertown and Lehigh Valley was closed due to an accident Tuesday morning. A tractor trailer struck a construction barrier in a work zone...
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Allentown Police Identify Woman Found Dead In Recycling Bin On Valentine’s Day
ALLENTOWN, P.A., (CBS) — A woman found dead and stuffed in a recycling bin in Allentown has been identified as 59-year-old, Rose A. Sieniawski by the Lehigh Valley Coroner. Her body was discovered in...
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Blog: Today is National Hoagie Day!
By Jim Donovan PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Today is National Hoagie Day. For two years running, Dietz & Watson has hand-selected area delis that serve Dietz & Watson delicacies and make some of the...
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FedEx Plans To Deliver Jobs In Lehigh Valley With New Distribution Center
ALLENTOWN, PA (CBS) — FedEx is planning to build one of its largest ground in the country in the Allentown area. FedEx purchased 260-acres of land near the Lehigh Valley International airport, and...
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Lehigh Valley Mall Shooting Leaves 2 Injured
Follow CBSPHILLY Facebook | Twitter WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Pa. (CBS) — Authorities say two men were injured after a shooting at the Lehigh Valley Mall on Friday evening. It happened around 7 p.m. in the...
View ArticleMan Arrested In Connection With Double Shooting Outside Lehigh Valley Mall
Follow CBSPHILLY Facebook | Twitter WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Pa. (CBS) – Police have arrested a man in connection with a shooting that left two people injured outside of the Lehigh Valley Mall last month....
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Excessive Humidity To Return Across Delaware, Lehigh Valleys This Weekend
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Beginning Friday, heat and humidity make a comeback across Delaware and Lehigh Valleys. After what was a comfortable week, swampy conditions will return to the forecast. High...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Weather: Cloudy, Grey Sunday Afternoon Before 2 More Winter...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — It is expected to be a generally cloudy and grey Sunday across the region this afternoon. Temperatures should eventually rise to the upper 30s so some thawing will happen even...
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