Reading police have arrested a city man in a late-night shooting this week outside a tavern in the 800 block of Penn Street. Police said…
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Jay Ostrich was searching his newspaper’s want ads for a higher paying sales and marketing job when he saw the breaking reports on television that…
It’s been 20 years since the terrorist group Al-Qaeda coordinated a series of four terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. The…
Anyone who is old enough to remember it knows how it felt. They know what it was like to hear that a plane had crashed…
Daily thought “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 The…
Twenty years ago, parents across the United States faced the delicate situation of discussing 9/11 with their children. Many adults watched their televisions with a…
A Fleetwood man has pleaded not guilty to charges he assaulted three police officers and a member of the news media during the Jan. 6…
Berks County picked up 125 new COVID cases in the Thursday update of the Pennsylvania Department of Health dashboard. The pandemic case total for the…
Berks County voters won’t be seeing an increase in drop boxes anytime soon. The Berks County Board of Elections decided at a meeting Thursday that…
Two Berks County colleges have been recognized as top schools by the Princeton Review. Albright College and Kutztown University have been included in a list…
Longtime WIP radio host “Big Daddy” Graham has died after battling a series of health troubles. “WIP lost one of its best people, and this…
Reading native Michael Constantine, an actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as high school principal Seymour Kaufman in the TV series “Room 222” from…
A Berks County jury on Wednesday convicted a Reading woman of first-degree murder and related charges for fatally shooting her boyfriend during an argument near…
Southeastern Pennsylvania, including Berks County, is under a flash flood watch starting Wednesday afternoon and running through Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service.…
Reading is starting to spend the $61 million it received from the federal government’s American Rescue Plan. City Council will vote in a couple weeks…
Business leaders in Berks County were reminded on Tuesday that it is legal to require a COVID-19 vaccine for employees as the virus spreads across…