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...
View ArticlePhils 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...
View ArticleLehigh 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...
View ArticlePolice: 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...
View ArticleRain, 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...
View ArticlePhillies 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...
View ArticleLehigh 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...
View ArticleBraves 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...
View ArticlePolice 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...
View ArticleIronPigs 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...
View ArticleLehigh 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...
View ArticleBethlehem 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...
View ArticlePhiladelphia 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...
View ArticlePolice: 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....
View ArticlePolice 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...
View ArticleFuel 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...
View ArticleAllentown 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...
View ArticleBlog: 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...
View ArticleFedEx 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...
View ArticleLehigh 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...
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