OVER THE WEEKEND, POLICE ALMOST CAUGHT AN EASTON MAN WANTED ON ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE CHARGES. VICTOR RIVERA RAN FROM POLICE IN SCHUYLKILL COUNTY DURING AN EARLY SUNDAY MORNING TRAFFIC STOP. RIVERA ORIGINALLY SPED AWAY AFTER McADOO POLICE TRIED TO PULL HIM OVER AND EVENTUALLY RAN AWAY ON FOOT AFTER BEING STOPPED A SECOND TIME MOMENTS LATER. POLICE BELIEVE THE 30-YEAR-OLD RIVERA WOUNDED AN EASTON MAN ON OCTOBER 6 NEAR 15TH AND LIBERTY STREETS.
A 21-YEAR-OLD KUNKLETOWN MAN IS DEAD AFTER A WEEKEND ACCIDENT. POLICE SAY JOSEPH HULL WAS APPARENTLY GOING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED ON ROUTE 534 NEAR ROUTE 191 IN POLK TOWNSHIP WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS PICKUP TRUCK, ROLLED IT SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE HITTING A TREE. A PASSENGER IN HULL'S TRUCK WAS TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES.
SEVERAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS WERE CALLED TO THE LEHIGH VALLEY MALL SUNDAY MORNING TO MAINTAIN CONTROL AFTER A LARGE CROWD BEGAN TO FORM WAITING FOR THE MALL TO OPEN AND FOR THEIR CHANCE TO BUY NEW AIR JORDAN SNEAKERS. AFTER SOME BEGAN CAMPING OUT SATURDAY NIGHT, THEY WERE TOLD TO GO HOME UNTIL 5 O'CLOCK SUNDAY MORNING. WHEN WHAT IS BEING DESCRIBED AS A FAIRLY LARGE CROWD BEGAN FORMING, POLICE WERE CALLED IN TO MAINTAIN ORDER. POLICE SAY THE CROWD MAY HAVE BEEN UNRULY ON OCCASION BUT THEY NEVER GOT OUT OF CONTROL AND THERE WAS NO PROPERTY DAMAGE AND NO ARRESTS WERE MADE.
EVERYTHING FROM PLATES, TO STAINED GLASS WINDOWS TO THE MENUS ARE ON THE AUCTION BLOCK TODAY AT THE KING GEORGE INN ON HAMILTON BOULEVARD IN SOUTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP. BIDS LATE THIS MORNING ON EQUIPMENT AND FURNITURE WILL BE FOLLOWED BY AUCTIONING ALL OTHER ITEMS AT 3 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. THE KING GEORGE INN AS STOOD AT THE CORNER OF HAMILTON AND CEDAR CREST BOULEVARDS SINCE 1756 AND IS BELIEVED TO HAVE HOSTED EX-PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS AND HIS SECOND COUSIN, SAMUEL. ITS OWNER CLOSED ITS DOORS BACK IN AUGUST. THE FATE OF THE BUILDING IS UNCLEAR.
THE NEW ARMY RESERVE CENTER IN FORKS TOWNSHIP GETS A NEW NAME TODAY. THE CENTER ON BRADEN BOULEVARD IN FORKS TOWNSHIP WILL NOW BEAR THE NAME OF ASHLY LYNN MOYER, AN EMMAUS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE WHO WAS KILLED IN IRAQ IN MARCH 2007. THE ASHLY LYNN MOYER ARMY RESERVE CENTER WILL BE HOME TO ABOUT 200 SOLDIERS AND REPLACES THE WILSON-KRAMER ARMY RESERVE CENTER IN BETHLEHEM.
IF HISTORY IS ANY INDICATION, POSTAL WORKERS HOPEFULLY GOT PLENTY OF REST LAST NIGHT. "ON A NORMAL MONDAY WE TAKE IN 538,000,000 PIECES OF MAIL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. ON THE 17TH, WE BELIEVE THAT'S GOING TO SPIKE TO MORE THAN 655,000,000 PIECES OF MAIL," SAYS THE POSTAL SERVICE'S RAY DAIUTOLO. HE SAYS THE LOCAL POSTAL SERVICE HAS TRIED TO EASE THE RUSH BY PULLING MAIL OUT OF MAILBOXES EVERY SUNDAY THIS MONTH, INCLUDING YESTERDAY, AND GETTING IT INTO THE SYSTEM A DAY EARLIER THAN NORMAL.
PENNSYLVANIA GAMING REGULATORS HAVE IDENTIFIED MORE THAN 50 PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SIX APPLICATIONS FOR PHILADELPHIA'S SECOND CASINO. AS THE APPLICATIONS MOVE THROUGH THE PROCESS, THAT LIST OF CONNECTED PEOPLE IS EXPECTED TO GROW. NOW, BOARD INVESTIGATORS ARE BEGINNING THEIR PROCESS OF CONDUCTING BACKGROUND CHECKS ON THOSE INDIVIDUALS TO ENSURE THEY ARE SUITABLE. INVESTIGATORS LOOK AT FINANCING AND CORPORATE STRUCTURES, CONDUCT BACKGROUND CHECKS AND LOOK FOR OTHERS WHO COULD EXERT INFLUENCE ON THE APPLICANT. THE BUREAU ALSO EXAMINES ACCOUNT LEDGERS AND EXPENDITURES TO SEE WHO'S BEING PAID. THEY ALSO INTERVIEW FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, PRIOR EMPLOYERS AND OTHERS. ALL OF THAT INFORMATION GOES INTO DETERMINING WHETHER AN APPLICANT IS SUITABLE.
