A former Lafayette College student — previously charged with possessing child sexual abuse content and recording classmates showering — has been imprisoned since January after violating the terms...
Northampton County authorities have dropped all charges against a couple connected to a College Hill hemp store that prosecutors said sold marijuana, capping a nearly two-year legal battle that resulted...
Five months after Lafayette College Public Safety recorded 76 counts of retail theft in a Simon’s Market power outage raid, new surveillance cameras and entry gates have been installed throughout the...
The college has moved forward with implementing a lightly controversial campus lighting plan released in January. Last month saw the addition of temporary light fixtures along some Quad paths, while a...
40 years since Lehigh Valley rape-murder reshaped crime reporting
By Makenna McCall, Assistant News Editor
• April 3, 2026
Forty years ago, on April 5, 1986, Lehigh University freshman Jeanne Clery was raped and killed in her dorm room by another student.
Clery’s parents sued the university, alleging their daughter would...
The trial for former College Hill hemp store representatives facing dozens of charges for drug possession has stretched to nearly a two-year litigation process. One of the defendants died last Thursday,...
A former Lafayette College football player is facing felony charges after a fatal DUI accident in Indianapolis on Jan. 1.
Gabriel DuBois ‘25 — who declared for the 2025 NFL Draft and played as a...
The Lafayette has compiled a list of all reported crimes to Lafayette College Public Safety on campus occurring in the 2025 calendar year. While we provide a weekly crime log in each newspaper, this map...
At Lafayette College’s Simon’s Market, theft was unchecked.
Until recently, the on-campus convenience store — a 24/7 Amazon “Just Walk Out” market — was unmanned and unsupervised; even the...
By Ella Selnick, Contributing Writer
• September 26, 2025
As colleges nationwide have faced false shooter hoaxes, swatting threats and other malicious pranks, Lafayette College is sticking to protocol.
“The key in my mind is always to confirm what’s being...
A five-month-long investigation of the mysterious pro-Hurd banner that appeared on campus the eve of the college president’s no-confidence vote came up empty-handed this summer.
“We ran out of leads,”...
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot Wednesday at an on-campus event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He was 31.
Kirk — the founder of conservative group Turning Point USA...
