A 28-year-old Reading man was taken into custody Thursday on charges he sexually assaulted a 51-year-old victim. Angel Vasquez surrendered to Berks County detectives and…
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Kylie Webb, a 2018 Boyertown High School graduate, didn’t know anything about the fire service when she received her assignment under the Fulbright scholarship to…
A Reading man has been sentenced to life in a state prison for the 2021 killing of a 23-year-old city man on Pear Street. Roland…
By MARGARET STAFFORD and JIM SALTER (Associated Press) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As Ralph Yarl struggled to come to grips with being shot after…
By MARGARET STAFFORD and JIM SALTER (Associated Press) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An 84-year-old white man in Kansas City, Missouri, was charged Monday with…
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON (Associated Press) STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida executed a man known as the “ninja killer” on Wednesday for the 1989 slayings of…
By DYLAN LOVAN and CLAIRE GALOFARO (Associated Press) LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Louisville bank employee armed with a rifle opened fire at his workplace…
The Berks County sheriff’s department is seeking the following fugitives: Andrew Colon Andrew Colon, 26, whose last known address was in the 100 block of…
The body of a 19-year-old Reading man who was reported missing last week by his family was found Wednesday evening in the woods on Mount…
Reading-based state police Troop L is seeking candidates for Camp Cadet, which will be held Aug. 12-19 at Camp Manatawny near Douglassville. Camp Cadet is…
State police from the Hamburg station say they plan to conduct increased DUI patrol and a sobriety checkpoint in upcoming weekends. Officials said in a…
Jose Pizarro Jose Pizarro, 25, whose last known address was in the 300 block of Washington Street, Reading, is wanted on first-degree murder charges. Police…
State police along with the Berks County district attorney’s office are investigating a fatal shooting by police Thursday night in Wyomissing. The shooting happened shortly…
Two intruders got about 200 packs of cigarettes and an undisclosed amount of cash during a 2-minute burglary of a Strausstown gas station this week,…
The owners of the West Reading chocolate factory that exploded Friday expressed grief and gratefulness in a statement released Wednesday. The blast at the R.M.…
By JONATHAN MATTISE (Associated Press) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The shooter who killed three students and three staff members at a Christian school in Nashville…