Reading police announced Sunday that they are investigating an early-morning shooting. Police gave this account: Around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, a 37-year-old male arrived at Reading…
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Exeter Township police announced Saturday that 15-year-old Kiara Rea Shaw has been found safe after being reported missing earlier in the day. Authorities had sought…
NORRISTOWN — A Philadelphia teenager has been arrested on charges related to an Aug. 28 fatal shooting in Pottstown, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele…
A Reading police officer who shot a suspect in the parking lot of a convenience store last month was justified in his actions, according to…
About 3:30 a.m. on June 27, a man noticed two males dressed from head to toe in black heading into the Victoria Crossing Apartments at…
The Berks County Jail System is facing a staffing shortage. System administrators told the Berks County Prison Board on Wednesday that the facility has 36…
The Berks County commissioners are looking to inform community members about a plan to build a new jail and hear what they have to say…
A 20-year-old West Reading man was arrested following a hit-and-run crash last week in Penn Township that seriously injured another driver, state police said Tuesday.…
State police from the Reading station said they plan to conduct a sobriety checkpoint this weekend in Berks County. The checkpoint will be conducted sometime…
A 29-year-old woman is in Berks County Prison after an incident in which state police said she entered an 83-year-old woman’s Longswamp Township apartment as…
A man who was under the influence of drugs when he crashed into a tow-truck operator on an assistance call along a Berks County interstate…
State authorities have charged a Muhlenberg Township woman with welfare fraud, alleging she received $17,000 in child care subsidies that she was not entitled to…
Fire and rescue crews were called to Union Township on Tuesday evening, and later so was the Berks County coroner’s office. Emergency radio reports showed…
Two men were shot, one fatally, Sunday evening in almost the same location as a shooting three days earlier in Reading’s 6th Ward neighborhood. Police…
Reading police, fire and ambulance responded Thursday night to the 100 block of North Front Street for a male shot multiple times. The call was…
A Muhlenberg Township man wielded a knife, threatening a constable who was serving him with an eviction notice Wednesday afternoon, police said. According to police:…