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…
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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:…
After nearly 34 years, Pennsylvania State Police investigators said they have finally identified the person who beat and strangled Anna Kane, dumping the 26-year-old woman’s…
State police say they have solved a 33-year-old homicide. Troopers and Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams said in a press release Wednesday that…
Reading police, fire and ambulance responded to the 600 block of North Front Street about 9:15 a.m. Saturday for the report of a shooting. Crews…
State police have released a composite sketch of the man they say last week shot two security guards, one fatally, who were hired by a…
A West Reading man was the person killed when he and another man were shot while they went to investigate a suspicious vehicle while working…
A disabled Schuylkill County man was thrown off his riding mower, which then ran over him and asphyxiated him, according to state police. John Lippert,…
Reading police are investigating a shooting early Monday that left a man hospitalized. Police said officers responded to Locust and Greenwich streets about 12:35 a.m.…
The Berks County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the following fugitives: Rosario-Santiago Roy Rosario-Santiago, 37, who recently lived in the 400 block of Linden Street ,…
Searches of two Reading homes on Thursday resulted in the arrest of five people on drug charges. The arrests were the result of a monthslong…
A motorcycle rider was killed Sunday morning on Kistler Valley Road in Albany Township, state police said. Myles M. Muth, 29, Germansville, Lehigh County, died…
The Berks County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the following fugitives: Faust Scott Faust, 39, who recently lived in the 2400 block of Cumberland Avenue, Mount…