Biography of antoinette martin easton pennsylvania
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Just minutes after 3-year-old Antoinette ‘Toni’ Keanu Apgar spent an August evening playing with her big sisters Nicole and Turquoise at the Easton Area Neighborhood Center playground, her little body lay lifeless on a nearby lawn.
Her great-grandmother, Clarine Boyer, said yesterday that as she stood hand-in-hand with the girls waiting to cross Philadelphia Road, she saw the death bil rounding the bend nära Grant Street.
“When he gets near to where we’re standing, he jumps on the sidewalk,” said Boyer. “At that point, he hit my granddaughter, Toni.”
Boyer relived that fateful Aug. 9 night on the witness stand at a hearing for Luu Duc Nguyen of Easton, who police said was drunk when he drove his car over the curb and into Antoinette, killing her and breaking a leg of 5-year-old Turquoise.
Boyer said she had taken the girls to a dinner and then to the playground before she headed home with them. With Nicole to her left, Turquoise to her r
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Margaret LaToure
Margaret F. Cortez LaToure, of Rossville, died Wednesday, October 18, , after a short illness at the home of her niece Annette Pietro Smith in Rossville, where she had resided for almost two years. Margaret was born in Nazareth, Pa., and lived there 88 years. She was a member of St Johns Church of Christ in Nazareth, Pa. where she had volunteered for 25 years with their meal program. Margaret was a devoted daughter, wife, sister, and beloved aunt. She was preceded in death by her parents, Martin and Antoinette Courtney; husband, Sherwood LaToure;
sisters, Mary Frey, Tatamy, Pa., Mamie Pietro, Rossville, Helen Swope, Bath, Pa., Virginia Kulp, Bethlehem, Pa., Delores Cortez, Nazareth, Pa.; brothers, Frank Cortez, La., Russell Cortez, Easton, Pa.
Survivors are her sisters, Nellie Mengel, Nazareth Pa., Hilda Kolb, Nazareth, Pa.; brother, Martin Cortez, Jr., Nazareth, Pa.; all of the Cortez nieces and nephews.
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One man, 10 women arrested in Lehigh County prostitution sting, police say
Federal, state and local authorities teamed up this week for a prostitution sting that resulted in 11 Lehigh County arrests.
Pennsylvania State Police troopers posing as potential clients called people who'd advertised sexual acts online. After the suspects offered them sex for money, troopers arranged a meeting time and place, police said.
The defendants were arrested when they showed up Wednesday and Thursday nights at the arranged meeting places, most of which were in
Hanover Township
, police said. Other arrests occurred in
Allentown
or elsewhere in the county, as some defendants asked troopers to come to them, police said.
One man,
Corderro Asa Cody
, 25, of Allentown, was arrested and charged with a third-