Palmer Township Police Sgt. Tyson Unangst says a double murder happened Tuesday evening in a 55-and-over community. "There is no threat to the community. This is an isolated incident and we do have one adult male in custody at this time," Unangst says. The killings happened just before 7 o'clock Tuesday evening inside a home in The Highlands at Glenmoor. Unangst is giving no further details on the victims or the man under arrest.
State officials say the air quality in our area today will be at an unhealthy level. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has declared a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day due to smoke and haze from the wildfires in Canada that have moved into the area. The DEP says vulnerable populations like young children, the elderly, and people with respiratory problems should limit their time outside. Berks, Bucks, Lehigh and Northampton counties are under the designation.
The Lehigh County coroner says a 65-year-old Saylorsburg man has died after his motorcycle crashed into a deer in Northampton County. Charles Eppinger died Monday afternoon an hour after hitting the deer on Mountain View Drive in Moore Township.
Bethlehem City Council has approved a 141-room boutique hotel to be built at 14-36 W. Third St. The hotel project includes restaurants, bars, meeting rooms and other amenities. A rooftop bar will also sit atop the structure, to be potentially joined by a small-scale restaurant offering finger foods.
AAA East Central says Pennsylvania's average price for a gallon of gas dropped a nickel from the week before, leaving it at $3.24 on Tuesday. That price is 48 cents below the June 3, 2024 figure. In the Lehigh Valley, that average price is at $3.09 gallon, down seven cents from the previous week and 55 cents lower than one year ago.
It appears five townhomes will not be built where the old Glendon Hotel once stood. Three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath homes would have been reserved for homebuyers whose incomes were at or below 80% of the area median income, but now Community Action Lehigh Valley says, due to escalating prices, the project was no longer feasible. The Glendon Hotel was demolished at the end of 2021.
Tuesday marked 40 years as President and CEO of St. Luke's University Health Network's Richard Anderson. Anderson is credited with ushering in an era of remarkable growth. Anderson is credited with expanding St. Luke's from a single hospital with 300 doctors and 2000 employees to a health network featuring 15 hospital campuses, more than 350 overall locations, 21,000 employees, 2200 of which are providers. He is the longest-tenured health care CEO in America.
A financial services website says New Jersey residents have the second-highest income of all states. WalletHub looked at three categories: average annual income of the top five percent of residents, average income for the bottom 20 percent and overall median income. New Jersey landed just behind Virginia as the state with the highest average income.