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Katrina Godbey says a federal jury sided with three Bethlehem police officers in her excessive-force lawsuit over how they entered her home in March 2024, when she says officers pushed through her door and knocked her into a staircase.
Parents and residents of the Bethlehem Area School District can weigh in on how the district uses its school buildings and draws attendance boundaries at five community meetings Wednesday, Nov. 4, through Friday, Nov. 6.
An "I Am Jane Doe" rally from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, outside the Monroe County Courthouse will show support for the former Cornell University student whose sexual assault allegations are now under a state special prosecutor's investigation.
Bethlehem police said Thursday that thieves have been stealing radar sensors from behind the Honda emblem on newer Honda vehicles, most often in Center City.
A tree from the grounds of Bethel Memorial Baptist Church at 715 Chestnut Lane will be Bethlehem's city Christmas tree this year, with a rigging crew due about 7 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, to cut it down.
WDIY 88.1 FM is bringing back its Lehigh Valley "Hollywood" Squares, a live game show fundraiser with local leaders in the celebrity squares, from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the State Theatre Center for the Arts, 453 Northampton St.
The city said in a notice that "a widespread technical issue affecting Granicus" caused the council's livestream service to go offline. It said the meeting would go ahead as scheduled and that it planned to post a recording as soon as streaming returned.
The library's event page lists Janine Santoro, the city's director of equity and inclusion, as its contact. Santoro organized a panel at the library in July 2025 as the city marked the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and raised its first Disability Pride flag, and three of Saturday's speakers were listed as panelists then.
Only three of the Lehigh Valley's 17 school districts, Allentown, Easton Area and Whitehall-Coplay, have posted rules barring phones during the school day in every grade. The rest would have to change theirs by the 2027-28 school year.
Alyssa R. McDowell, 34, a pharmacy technician at Sheffield Pharmacy, took 80,926 oxycodone pills and 8,744 hydrocodone pills between January 2022 and May 2026, investigators allege, according to the attorney general's office. The 89,670 pills work out to about 1,700 a month over that span, based on the office's figures.
