Reading News

Senator Rick Santorum will be in for a book signing of his Blue Collar Conservatives on Tuesday, July 22nd at Tremendous Life Books in Mechanicsburg from 6pm-8pm.

It took 46 years, but Sandra Ann Stiver was finally reunited with her family this week.

The surveillance picture of a man on a bike is what police are hoping will help lead them to the person accused of stealing copper, causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage.

The fire was first reported shortly after 3:30 p.m. Monday in the 1500 block of Mineral Spring Road.

From left, Tom Stiver, brother of Sandra Stiver and husband of Martha Stiver, Elizabeth Stiver, mother of Sandra and Hazel Stiver DeMoss, sister of Sandra attend a news conference on Monday, July 7, 2014 in Bern Township, Pa.

Tests were underway Monday to determine the extent to which a man was under the influence when he crashed a van with four unrestrained children inside, police said.

The family of a teenager whose bullet-riddled remains were recently identified in eastern Pennsylvania 46 years after she ran away from home say they won't be satisfied until they find out the identity of her killer.

The Brush Valley Chamber of Commerce's annual duck drop is fast approaching. On Sunday, July 27, volunteers from the chamber will drop more than 400 plastic ducks into the Shamokin Creek behind Original Italian Pizza on Water Street.

Reading police are trying to track down the person responsible for causing $80,000 in damage to a school and apartment complex while stealing copper from air conditioning units.

A man who was driving the wrong way on Seventh Avenue early Wednesday was caught with assault rifles , hundreds of rounds of ammunition and several knives - and police found a note in his car saying he wanted to die in combat, police said.

Yuasa Inc. announced it has increased the capacity of its popular industrial front termination PowerLock battery to 150Ah within the same footprint.

Rain pounded the region Wednesday afternoon as severe storms swept across our area.

On June 23, and again on Monday, the thief caused extensive damage at Silk Mill Apartments, 1200 N. 11th St., Reading.

A Lebanon County jury decided in May that Shannon DeGeorge robbed a Lebanon bank in February 2013, not buying DeGeorge's alibi that he was at his Reading apartment when the robbery occurred.

The deadly shooting of a man in Reading early Wednesday morning brings to five the number of homicides committed in the city over the past month.

Berks County authorities continue their search for 22 of 48 suspects who were targeted in a countywide drug sweep last week.

A new law aims to improve public safety by making it harder for thieves to sell stolen railway materials and require stronger credentials to be a scrap dealer or recycler in Pennsylvania.

Yuasa Inc. has expanded its line of Independence NP Series of VRLA batteries with two new units claimed to deliver significantly improved performance over other batteries with the same footprint.

Gov. Tom Corbett on Monday signed an execution warrant for a Reading man who was convicted of killing a Lebanon County woman in Berks County six years ago.

A new monument was dedicated Monday to Kyle Pagerly, who was killed in the line of duty three years ago.