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Alvernia University student and Audubon native Tracey Brown was recently awarded the $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood.

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It is that time of year again for the Berks County Bard Festival 2014. This is the 16 years the poetry festival which is held in April to coincide with National Poetry Month.

Pete LeClair is surrounded by eggheads small enough to be put all in one basket before he hops a plane in Florida and heads north.

Pennsylvania has added the final piece of the financing puzzle for the proposed redevelopment of a former Reading Outlet Center building.

That's when she's hopeful the company will have a HoneyBaked Ham franchise back in the Lehigh Valley area, focusing on the Easton area.

Originally from Reading, PA, he has considered Harrisburg home for many years, and is related, according to family folklore, to John Harris, founder of Harrisburg.

Disbelief in the house of God; pastors in Reading and Mount Penn say they were stunned when their churches were burglarized.

Neighbors in the Wyomissing Park section of the city told 69 News a few weeks ago that they felt their pleas for help were being ignored.

The announcement was made Tuesday at the Journey Fellowship Day Care on Alton Avenue in Reading.

Police are investigating a wild set of circumstances involving a car that struck several parked vehicles before hitting a pole and coming to rest on a sidewalk in West Reading.

Police said they suspect the driver of a car was under the influence of alcohol when he struck several parked vehicles before crashing onto a sidewalk on Penn Avenue in West Reading.

Heavy rain that fell in Reading late Tuesday morning was again too much for the Spring Street Subway to handle.

Nevin Walls tried to lift the baby from her stroller while her mother stood in line at the welfare office on the 3rd floor of the state office building at 625 Cherry St. in downtown Reading around noon Monday, according to court documents.

Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas, who you know better as Snow White and Prince Charming on "Once Upon a Time," were married over the weekend.

Residents in a Reading community are still in shock after learning that one of their neighbors was arrested on serious drug charges.

That is, until the school partnered with Wood-to-Wonderful to move the existing playground at Thomas Ford Elementary over to 10th & Green.

Residents in one Reading neighborhood are on edge after a man was shot in the neck.

Police charged a Berks County man with homicide and other offenses in the April 8th 2014 fatal shooting of an Allentown man.

While temperatures are soaring up into the 70s for the first time in months, today's rain could hold off until after sunset in South Jersey, according to future radar simulation forecasts.