May 11, 2021
2399 new cases of COVID-19 were reported Monday by the state Department of Health. Those numbers are over a two-day period. Monday s report showed only 1023 new cases, the lowest daily number since last October. 18 new COVID-related deaths were reported over the same two-day period. Statewide percent positivity for the seven days ending May 6 stood at 6.6-percent.
21 Pennsylvania senators are asking Gov. Tom Wolf to move up the removal of of most coronavirus restrictions. 20 of those senators are Republican. The lone Democrat is the Lehigh Valley s Lisa Boscola. The governor plans to remove all but the mask mandate on May 31st, Memorial Day. The 21 senators are pushing him to move that up to the Friday before Memorial Day, May 28th. The governor s office responds by saying those 21 senators would be better served by pushing residents to get vaccinated.
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One-punch homicide lands Wilson Borough man in prison for up to 6 years
Updated May 10, 2021;
Posted May 10, 2021
Calvin Brown Jr. surrendered July 1, 2019, to face a homicide charge out of Wilson Borough.Courtesy photo | For lehighvalleylive.com
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A Wilson Borough man who punched his friend and inadvertently killed him was sentenced Monday to three to six years in prison, according to a news release.
Calvin Brown, 27, killed Dennis Hodge Jr., 28, during a dispute June 26, 2019, in the 900 block of South 25th Street in Wilson Borough, according to the news release from the Northampton County District Attorney’s office. The men lived in apartments in that block.