Reading News

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.

Kelly King holds her daughter Tallulah Craze, 2, who is fascinated by the big red bow on a present left by an anonymous donor who has been showering the family with gifts.

The Schuylkill Avenue bridge between Buttonwood and West Green streets will be out of service for a year during work to replace the span.

A Keystone Games coach Alicia Colon, 25, of Reading faces charges of hindering the investigation of the rape of a 16 year old girl at a suburban Harrisburg hotel last August.

A donation will help the YMCA of Reading and Berks County help young children and their parents in need of quality child care.

Steve Sieller, a Douglassville PA resident who currently serves as assistant principal of Millmont Elementary School in the Reading School District, will be presented tonight as the candidate chosen to succeed the retiring Maryann Johnson as assistant principal in Lower Pottsgrove Elementary School on Buchert Road.

UGI Gas Utilities officials said Monday the company has cut the price it charges to its gas customers in most of Berks County by 6.3 percent.

A reported rape inside a hotel room near Harrisburg has led to the arrests of two people from Berks County, including the alleged victim's high school athletic coach.

Megan Jones Freshman, Temple University It is hard to believe that my first semester at Temple University is wrapping up.