The fate of a proposal by developer Abe Atiyeh to build a drug, alcohol and psychiatric treatment center in an upscale Bethlehem neighborhood could rest on how a Northampton County judge answers a single question:
Sustainable Cities Design Academy to offer ideas on connecting Sands, SteelStacks.
As developers eye some of the still-vacant Bethlehem Steel buildings between the Sands casino and the SteelStacks cultural campus, a national group of architects and urban planners will offer ideas on the best way to redevelop what remains of the old plant.
Council President Eric Evans is impressed with the applicants' backgrounds.
The field of six applicants for Bethlehem city controller includes a city councilman, a project manager who had briefly volunteered for the mayor's congressional campaign, a statistician, a financial consultant, an accountant and a business manager who has worked with nonprofits.
Bethlehem police say city's computer-aided dispatch and records system crashes frequently, makes their job harder.
When Bethlehem police officials touted their new computerized records and dispatch system in 2008, they said it would revolutionize investigations ranging from robbery to homicide.
System to deliver painkillers has history of malfunctions, report finds.
Hundreds of patients across the country have been injured using the kind of self-operated medication pumps involved in three recent incidents at St. Luke's Hospital.
Hospital failed to protect patients, report says, noting mistakes led three to overdose.
Nurses at St. Luke's Hospital three times in 2010 and 2011 improperly programmed patient-controlled pumps to deliver pain medication, causing patients to overdose themselves, a state Department of Health report says.
Sell-out crowd of 400 attends soup-testing event that raises money for art education
When the doors for Souper Bowl III opened at 11 a.m. Saturday, a sell-out crowd of more than 400 soup lovers poured into ArtsQuest Center's Musikfest Café like athletes hitting the ballfield.
The recovered alcoholic testified at zoning hearing on proposed facility on Dewberry Avenue.
Former Phillies pitcher Dickie Noles, a recovering alcoholic who is now a crisis counselor for team members, told the Bethlehem Zoning Hearing Board that a proposed drug and alcohol rehabilitation center would pose no threat to the neighborhood and those seeking treatment are a lot like people they already know.
