Reading News

Tempers are flaring over proposed police and fire cuts in Reading. Saturday morning, city leaders met with police and fire union leaders.

Killing a man who started a fight over drug turf is voluntary manslaughter, a Berks County judge ruled Friday before sentencing the shooter to 7½ to 20 years in state prison.

Residents will see longer ambulance response times and fewer personnel at fires, Chief William H. Rehr III says.

A West Reading man who told police he shot a Reading man trying to break into his house Wednesday night has been arrested and charged with shooting the unarmed man after an argument over drugs.

One person is in the hospital and another is in police custody after an argument leads to gunfire in Berks County.

Lessons learned in grass-roots campaign organizing last year contributed to election victories in the city this year, the Democrats and Republicans agree.

Students learned about the Day of the Dead and also honored their favorite saints at an event Tuesday at Sacred Heart School's gymnasium in West Reading.

The Reading School District will open a new alternative high school program in November to replace one that was run by Reading Area Community College.

Two Berks County deputy sheriffs and a Wyomissing police officer were injured over the weekend when a suspected drunken driver crashed his pickup truck into a DUI checkpoint in Sinking Spring, authorities said Sunday.

Click on picture to enlarge. Reading Eagle: Lauren A. Little Leslie D. King, the coordinator of Reading Public Library's Bookmobile Outreach Program, helps Wyomissing Club Apartments resident Joan C. Goncher select books Tuesday during one of the program's last stops.

The Daniel Torres Hispanic Center in Reading expects a $100,000 budget deficit by summer if it can't find new funding.

Hundreds of support jacks brace the second and third levels of the Fourth and Cherry Garage in Reading, where dozens of jagged holes gape through the concrete floor.

Reading police arrested three people on charges they made a bomb and put it in a U.S. Postal Service box at 13th and South streets.

Reading's budget woes mean city police will end up next year with only a third of the criminal investigators they have now, and the detectives will work only on major crimes, city administration officials said Tuesday.

The wife of a Reading businessman who owns a shuttered Asian massage parlor that police said was a front for prostitution was found murdered in the couple's Montgomery County home, authorities said Tuesday.

It was the perfect night for ghost stories. But a tough one for catching a view from the William Penn Memorial Fire Tower.

Reading Eagle A former Reading School District custodian who in May admitted sexually assaulting two girls may not withdraw his guilty plea and go to trial instead, Berks County Judge Thomas G. Parisi ruled Monday.

A Berks County judge said he was making sure a 33-year-old Reading man would never again see freedom in sentencing him Monday for the September 2008 fatal beating and robbery of another city man.

The center announced it ended its fiscal year on June 30 with a worst-ever operating loss of $234,899. General manager Zane Collings said people worried about their jobs and the faltering economy bought fewer tickets for events at the Sovereign Center and the Sovereign Performing Arts Center.

Reading Eagle An 18-year-old Reading man has been charged with possessing child pornography as a result of an undercover state police investigation.