Tom Shortell
Politics ReporterI cover all things politics for LehighValleyNews.com. As veteran reporter of the region, I previously covered the Slate Belt, Northampton County, Lehigh County and local courts during stints at the area’s two newspapers. I also penned the popular Road Warrior column at The Morning Call, keeping readers up to speed on transportation news. I graduated from St. Bonaventure University and have yet to find a pun I don't like. I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. Contact me at toms@lehighvalleynews.com or 610-984-8209.
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Lehigh Valley shelters are adding capacity as meteorologists forecast between 10 and 16 inches of snow starting Sunday. -
Lehigh County Coroner Dan Buglio announced that a 93-year-old Lower Macungie Township woman died outside her home of hypothermia. She is Lehigh County's first weather-related fatality of 2026.
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Vamos a deportar al ICE’: el Condado de Lehigh desaloja a Homeland Security por alquileres atrasadosEl Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de los Estados Unidos (DHS) ha utilizado un espacio de oficinas del condado, pero no ha pagado el alquiler en tres años a pesar de un memorando de entendimiento firmado en 2022, según informaron funcionarios del condado. El contralor Mark Pinsley declaró: “Vamos a deportar a ICE”.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has used county office space but hasn't paid rent in three years despite a 2022 memorandum of understanding, county officials said. Said Controller Mark Pinsley: "We're going to deport ICE."
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Más de la mitad de los periodistas de LehighValleyNews.com se enteraron el viernes que perderían sus empleos.
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More than half the journalists at LehighValleyNews.com learned they were losing their jobs Friday.
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Lehigh County prosecutors tried to avoid the standard procedures for criminal court by bypassing defendants' preliminary hearings. Instead, Lehigh County Judge Thomas Caffrey ruled the cases should proceed Friday morning as scheduled.
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The developer behind the Easton Commerce Park project and Wilson Borough have filed a lawsuit against Easton's planning commission after it rejected its plans for a 1-million-square-foot warehouse on Wood Avenue.
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U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie voted to triple ICE's budget as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill last year. The extra funding has allowed the agency to hire more officers who are being deployed in force to major cities across the nation.
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Julian Guridy se retiró abruptamente de la elección especial por el Distrito 22 de la Cámara estatal, obligando a demócratas a buscar candidato a última hora.
