Fleetwood News

A Fleetwood, Pa., man faces charges after he pointed a handgun at his wife and her son during an argument on Saturday at a Lower Nazareth Township home, court records say.

With a federal investigation still hanging over Angel Food Ministries, some Berks County churches involved in the low-cost food distribution program are reporting a drop in clients.

Preparing and serving plenty of delicious food is what Louisa Trumbore, 42, Blandon, and her dietary staff at Sacred Heart Villa Assisted Living, Muhlenberg Township, do.

Many of the students who packed the Northeast Middle School auditorium Monday gazed with rock-star adoration at the man on stage.

They just kept coming. More than 100 families came through the Fleetwood Community Center cafeteria Tuesday evening to pick up boxes of food that will ensure that no one in their households will go without this Thanksgiving.

The first firefighters to respond to a 3 a.m. alarm in Topton found flames crawling up the outside of the three-unit apartment building at 15 S. Callowhill Street.

Police closed a section of Penn Avenue in Wernersville for more than two hours Sunday afternoon while they searched a borough hotel for a woman who said she had been kidnapped and was being held at gunpoint, investigators said.

The Richmond Township supervisors have voted unanimously to advertise a 2010 budget that won't increase the property tax.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A tractor-trailer was hit by a Norfolk Southern train late Wednesday night near Fleetwood, Berks County, after the truck got stuck on the railroad crossing, police said.

A Norfolk Southern freight train struck a tractor-trailer late Wednesday in Richmond Township near Fleetwood, officials said.

Charles "Chill" Kuhn, a professional storyteller from Coatesville, will be featured in the Fleetwood Library's presentation of "Tales for the Telling: An Evening of Storytelling for Ages 5-105," on Friday at Fleetwood Middle School.

I look forward to the hot co-co with marshmallows after our family decides together which Christmas tree to cut and buy.

Stars. Not hex signs, but stars. Patrick Donmoyer, 23, has spent more than a year documenting and photographing 400 examples of such celestial iconography, a form of folk art painted on Pennsylvania barns over the last three centuries.

ALONG will be held 2-7 p.m. today at Fleetwood Grange, R.3, Fleetwood. Music by Jen and Martin McPherson, the Roland Zimmerman Family, the Stony Mountain Gang, and the Keystone Mountain Way.

Some places of interest along the Mason-Dixon Line Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 17:32 Fifteen miles south of Philadelphia is the Chester County town of Embreeville, home of the Stargazer's Stone and Harland House, where the accomplished English surveyors found hospitality and the convivial company of its owner, John Harland, a Quaker ...

Road projects Interstate 176 between Exit 2 and Exit 10 : lane restrictions around the clock.

Fleetwood police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred earlier this morning in Richmond Township, according to Berks County emergency dispatchers.

Emergency officials say a one-vehicle crash in eastern Pennsylvania has killed two people.

Police are on the scene of a double fatal accident in Fleetwood, Berks County. It happened around 2:30 this morning at the intersection of Oak Haven Road and Short Lane.

Historic Mason-Dixon Line restoration is under way Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 17:32 Starting in 1763, the intrepid Englishmen scaled mountains and risked their lives on a frontier where Colonists and Indians butchered each other in the French and Indian War's aftermath.