Reading News

Going away to college can be stressful. There are roommates to meet, academic challenges to conquer and social niches to carve out.

The city's unions - asked one last time for contract concessions to prevent 40 more layoffs - have begun meeting with the city administration and scheduling votes by members to meet a deadline next week.

Reading Eagle A 50-year-old Reading man was charged Thursday with robbing a Sovereign Bank branch in Muhlenberg Township on Wednesday.

Reading fire crews spent much of Wednesday dousing flare-ups in the rubble of a three-alarm fire that ripped through a four-story vacant factory building at McKnight and Greenwich streets the night before.

A three-alarm fire ripped through an old, brick factory building near McKnight and Greenwich streets Tuesday night, forcing police to evacuate dozens of houses near the fire.

Every available firefighter in Reading is battling a three-alarm inferno at a vacant factory in the 600 block of McKnight Street, near West Oley, in the northwest section of the city.

A safety recall of cribs with dropdown sides will be announced Tuesday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a person familiar with the regulator's plans said.

City police are investigating the stabbing death of a woman. Reading police say they responded just before 2 a.m. Tuesday to reports of a domestic disturbance and found 39-year-old Maria Albers-Cosme lying on the front steps of a neighbor's home.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to announce one of the largest crib recalls in United States history, involving cribs with dropdown sides, according to several news organizations.

The sign hanging in the corner of the window said it all. Printed in black ink on a small piece of white paper was a simple phrase, "We need a barber." April Halligan, right, former fiancee of the late Scott Bitler, is joined by friend Ashley Armstrong of Birdsboro, left, and others during a Sunday evening vigil in memory of the slain barber ...

Kids of all ages get a kick out of bands, antique cars and the arrival of the jolly old elf himself.

The developer behind the proposed $2.8 billion RiverView at Reading did not show up for the real estate closing on a waterfront property that is key to the project but isn't backing out, a spokesman said Thursday.

"I'm inspired by little scraps," says Lydia L. Dierwechter, whose purses will be on exhibit at this weekend's Art of the Craft show at the Reading Public Museum.

A man suffered burns while trying to put out a fire in his home in the 300 block of Miller Street early this morning, officials said.

As he was being handcuffed after nearly two months on the run, a Reading man told a city policeman that he regretted that he hadn't stayed home and watched television as he had planned, police said Thursday.

Reading officials this afternoon began notifying the unions of the employees who will be laid off effective Nov.

An anonymous tip to Crime Alert Berks County led police in Berks County to find two people wanted for attempted murder in western Pennsylvania.

A small fire broke out tonight in the art room of Muhlenberg High School in Laureldale, north of Reading, and it was quickly extinguished, authorities said.

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From the moment Jack D. Gulati entered Stokesay Castle 15 years ago, he was hooked.