{"id":221957,"date":"2026-06-18T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221957\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:30:11","slug":"coroner-identifies-palmer-township-man-who-drowned-in-delaware-river-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221957\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies Palmer Township man who drowned in Delaware River | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8212; The Northampton County Coroner&#8217;s Office has identified the man who went missing in the Delaware River on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man was identified as 45-year-old Brian King of Palmer Township, according to the coroner&#8217;s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>King had been fishing while standing in the river and was swept away by the current, the coroner&#8217;s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His body was recovered a few hours later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The coroner says his cause of death was determined to be drowning, and the manner of death was ruled an accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8212; The Northampton County Coroner&#8217;s Office has identified the man who went missing in the Delaware&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-221957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}