Small businessman Larry Padora has announced his candidacy for Schuylkill County commissioner in the May 16 Republican primary. Padora said he is running because the…
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The federal government filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern over environmental damage caused by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that spilled hazardous chemicals into…
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…
Berks County continues to see low levels of COVID data, showing an apparent dwindling of the pandemic. The weekly state update of COVID data shows…
Daily thought Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”…
The explosion last week that leveled part of a West Reading chocolate factory and claimed the lives of seven workers will not be easily forgotten,…
When West Reading officials gathered for a special meeting inside a small, crowded board room at borough hall Tuesday evening, it was to handle a…
Class notes Blue Mountain High School Class of 1958: Classmates and guests are invited to meet for breakfast at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, April 5,…
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 MARÍA VERZA and MORGAN LEE (Associated Press) CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — After migrants in northern Mexico placed mattresses against the bars of their…
By JONATHAN MATTISE (Associated Press) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The shooter who killed three students and three staff members at a Christian school in Nashville…
In her 41 years working at the Bethel-Tulpehocken Library, Daphne Meyer has seen children barely tall enough to peek over the checkout desk return decades…
A 72-year-old Hamburg woman died as a result of a one-vehicle crash Monday afternoon on Route 61 in Perry Township, state police said Tuesday. Cheryl…
Philadelphia water officials say they have seen no sign of contamination following a chemical spill into the Delaware River in a neighboring county upriver and…
A former candidate for city public works director has filed a lawsuit against the city of Reading. “Martin Neely has filed a federal case against…