Berks County News

BARRE, Pa. - A judge tasked with unraveling an alleged $2.8 million kickback scheme involving two northeastern Pennsylvania judges says they presided over a juvenile justice system "run amok." Senior Berks County Judge Arthur Grim told a state investigatory panel that former judge Mark Ciavarella sentenced juvenile offenders to jail without ...

In Luzerne County a special commission met Monday to hear more about juvenile injustice and how a major corruption scandal can be avoided in the future.

Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a Maryland man is dead after a weekend shooting at an illegal bar that also injured six people.Reading police say 28-year-old Richard Gonzalez, of Prince George's County, was killed around 3:30 a.m. Sunday in what investigators are calling a speakeasy.Berks County District Attorney John Adams says about 100 ...

Firefighters battle a fire at a home on Weinstiger Road in Washington Township, Berks County on Thursday.

A shootout in Reading injures six people and kills one man. It happened around 3:30 a.m. at what police say is an illegal bar along the 500 block of Schuylkill Avenue.

I'm new to the Berks county area in the beautiful state of Pennsylvania. I was looking for some fun filled activities to do with my family and friends.

Fire Crews from Berks County and Lebanon County are on the scene of a barn fire at 81 Kreider Road in Jackson Township, Lebanon County.

Several North American dates on The Elton John/Billy Joel Face 2 Face concert tour are being rescheduled as John continues to battle the flu, promoters said.

Dozens of firefighters battled a two-alarm fire that gutted a house in Washington Township, Berks County this afternoon.

An aggressive campaign waged by Berks County Treasurer Nelson H. Long paid off Tuesday.

It seems Kate Gosselin is taking tips from her estranged husband Jon. The Gettysburg Times reported the Berks County mom was nabbed for speeding on Route 15, which bypasses Gettysburg last Thursday.

I look forward to the hot co-co with marshmallows after our family decides together which Christmas tree to cut and buy.

Several fire departments were dispatched this morning to a fire at the Berks Truck Wash on Willow Creek Road between Route 222 and Business Route 222 in Ontelaunee Township, Berks County.

The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office says it has broken up a $2.5 million marijuana distribution ring that moved the drug from New York to the Easton area and then resold it on Kutztown University's campus.

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.

Mandatory sentences Mission: In October 2007, the state House directed the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing to provide recommendations to revise mandatory sentencing laws.

The first major deployment of Berks County's newly formed SWAT team was called a success based on 33 of 35 team members arriving within 30 minutes at a Spring Township home where a heavily armed man had barricaded himself in the basement after reporting that his wife had been shot, the unit's leader said Thursday.

Levittown - Stars. Not hex signs, but stars.Patrick Donmoyer, 23, has spent more than a year documenting and photographing 400 examples of such celestial iconography, a form of folk art painted on Pennsylvania barns over the last three centuries.To Donmoyer, these stars matter as emblems of Pennsylvania German cultural identity.He is a true fan, ...

High school students and their families flocked to Albright College on Monday night, anxious to meet with college representatives and pick up brochures at the annual Berks County College Fair.

An eastern Pennsylvania man who held police at bay for more than seven hours in his basement has been charged with killing his wife.