NORTHAMPTON COUNTY

A Lehigh Valley county plans to pay $750 to employees at one it its nursing homes as a way of encouraging them to get immunized against the coronavirus.

NIAID Director Anthony Fauci addressed the media on Friday after witnessing the vice president receive his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination. Fauci expressed optimism that the country could begin to return to “normality” a few months into 2021.

A group of “testing strike teams” is offering free coronavirus testing across Pennsylvania, including in Northampton County, where infections have jumped at an alarming rate. NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal reports.

Several lawsuits have been filed over Pennsylvania’s election practices, including when mail-in ballots must be received, whether voters can “cure” ballots without a signature and how close observers can stand to ballot counting.

Republican House Candidate Kathy Barnette sued on election day after some voters were allowed to fix mistakes with their ballots. NBC10’s Claudia Vargas reports.

A Pennsylvania man who was convicted of threatening President Donald Trump and a district attorney has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Donna Kay Griffin was never reported missing but authorities don’t now how she ended up in Nazareth, Pa. in October 1987.

Pennsylvania police became shepherds when they wrangled a lost sheep wandering alone along a highway and corralled it to safety, authorities said. Wilson police were initially responding to a report of a truck crash on Route 22 early Wednesday morning. But they found no vehicle or injured persons, only a sheep, LehighValleyLive.com reported. Officer Tyler Smith wrangled the sheep to…

NBC10 First Alert Weather meteorologist Bill Henley has above average temperatures to start the workweek.

A Pennsylvania woman who caused a fatal car crash in June 2017 after falling asleep at the wheel has been sentenced to serve six months to two years in prison.

A 6-year-old boy hurt in the Lehigh Valley was startled by a nearby lightning strike while riding his bicycle.

A man sentenced to die for raping, strangling and dismembering his girlfriend’s 14-year-old daughter has asked a judge to instead give him a life term.

A man was arrested Friday for allegedly setting fire to a church in Bethlehem, Northampton County, police said.

The adoptive mother of a teenage girl who was raped and killed as part of a sick fantasy in one of Pennsylvania’s most gruesome murders in recent history was sentenced to life in prison plus as much as another century in prison.

“The butchery in this case is beyond my ability to describe,” Common Pleas Judge Diane E. Gibbons said in court.

The judge called Jacob Sullivan a “coward” Thursday for requesting police protection in prison as she handed down the death penalty for the murder, rape and dismemberment of 14-year-old Grace Packer. “You have no soul. I have never said that to another human being,” said Judge Diane Gibbons. Sullivan’s girlfriend and Grace’s adoptive mother Sara Packer will be sentenced...