Reading News

A Grammy Award-wining singer who has had 30 Top 40 R&B hits - including two of the biggest-selling Disney soundtrack hits in the past two decades - will headline this year's 24th annual Berks Jazz Fest, it has been announced.

Question: Online retail giant Amazon recently said it's considering using aerial drones to deliver packages.

Daily thought "For what shall it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Mark 8:36 It does not matter how much material things you own; if you do not have Christ in your heart, you will not inherit the kingdom of heaven.

A postal worker, a secretary, a Philadelphia policeman and a nurse, all senior citizen retirees, captured the top four prizes Thursday in Berks Encore's annual Senior Poetry Contest.

Reading Eagle A Richmond Township man who hit a pedestrian with his car in the township and then drove off has been charged, Fleetwood police said Thursday.

Reading Eagle The last of three men Reading police had been seeking after charging them in a nonfatal ambush-style shooting that occurred two years ago turned himself in Thursday, authorities said.

An official of the Reading-based Council on Chemical Abuse made a plea for public recognition of addiction as an illness Thursday during a program at Alvernia University.

Reading Eagle The city and several other groups have slated a public session Thursday at Alvernia University to provide an update on efforts involving cooperatives of local workers.

Morrissey, former singer for the 80's alternative rock band The Smiths, performs onstage at the Sovereign Performing Arts Center on Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, in Reading, Pa.

For his first film, "Rink Rats," local documentarian Dan Hornberger revisited his youth, focusing on the defunct Western Berks Street Hockey Rink near Sinking Spring.

For the second time in three years, Patrolman Ronald L. Tobias of Central Berks Regional Police was honored by the Pennsylvania DUI Association for his efforts to combat drunken driving.

BOOKS Reading by acclaimed short-story writer Perhaps 2013 will be known as the year of the short story.

Reading Eagle State police made 18 arrests for drunken driving and issued 52 seat-belt citations in Berks County during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, officials said Tuesday.

The Fresh Beat Band will perform Sunday at 5:30 p.m. at Reading Eagle Theater at Santander Arena.

Reading Eagle A small fire damaged a home in the 1000 block of North 11th Street Wednesday.

Reading Eagle Eighteen mid- to low-level drug dealers were arrested Wednesday during a roundup by detectives from the district attorney's drug task force, Reading police and the sheriff's department.

The Musical Box will perform Genesis songs such as "The Cinema Show," "Watcher of the Skies," "The Musical Box" and "Supper's Ready" during Saturday's show in Reading.

When Pink came to Philadelphia in March, her show was not only a concert, but also a circus, cinema and spectacle.

About 350 members of the Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce gathered to hear the economic forecast Wednesday morning at the Stokesay Castle.

Plans to revive a 50-acre industrial site are now underway in Reading, exciting both city officials and nearby residents.