Police: Woman shot in Center City

A woman was shot early Wednesday in Center City Allentown and is being treated for injuries that are not lifethreatening, police said. They are still searching for the shooter.

Allentown police responded to the 500 block of West Gordon Street around 1:30 a.m. for a reported shooting and found a woman who had been shot. Her name was not released.

A man was reported to have fled the scene on foot. Police say the incident was tied to a specific home and was not random.

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call investigators at 610-437-7721 or text the tip app, Tip411, which is available on the Allentown police website at www.allentownpa.gov/police.

— Kayla Dwyer

that police may not force people to “unlock the safe” to potentially incriminating evidence stored in their minds.

The state Attorney General’s Office could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the issue for the first time. The office did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

Other courts, including the U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, have said defendants have to surrender passwords if it’s clear they know them.

The federal case in Philadelphia involved a police sergeant held in contempt for more than 18 months in a child pornography case in 2017.

The Massachusetts case, decided this year, involved the phone password of a sex trafficking suspect.

But Pennsylvania’s highest court rejected their reasoning, concluding that the information — unlike physical evidence like a blood test — amounts to “testimony” that cannot be compelled.

— The Associated Press

The railway argues it’s exempt from the amusement tax because it’s in the freight business, not the amusement business, and operates passenger excursion rides merely as a way to continue community interest in the history of the local railway industry. The borough contends the railway should shoulder its fair share of the tax as do other local businesses.

Jim Thorpe Borough Council President Greg Strubinger said the borough is in talks with the railway and has the option of refiling the lawsuit if talks don’t progress in 2020.

— Andrew Scott