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A U. S. Customs and Border Protection agent played a key role in last month's conviction of a Pennsylvania police officer who shot his estranged wife in 2005.

The man shot by a Wyomissing policeman while trying to get into the officer's vehicle was carrying fake ID and wanted for violating federal parole on a drug and firearms conviction, authorities said Tuesday.

A 19-year-old man faces one count of murder and four counts of attempted murder after a fatal crash that followed a domestic dispute in Philadelphia.

Authorities said police dispatcher helped foil a crime in Berks County Sunday night.

The former treasurer of the West Wyomissing Fire Company is serving six months to one year in Berks County Prison after admitting he used more than $65,000 of the social club's money to pay his cell phone bill ...

A birthday party in Muhlenberg Township turned deadly early Sunday when a 22-year-old township man was fatally stabbed by another man, police said.

Police say an armed robbery suspect shot by an officer in Berks County late Sunday night gave them a false name.

Berks County Detective Donald Stewart spends his days viewing hundreds of child pornography photographs confiscated from computers.

A man shot by police in Berks County is a federal fugitive. Wyomissing Police Chief Jeffrey Biehl said Tuesday that fingerprints show the man shot late Sunday night is really 40-year-old federal fugitive Ramon ...

The Wyomissing police officer was characterisically cool under pressure who shot a suspect in a convenience store robbery after the man pulled a gun on him, the borough police chief said Monday.

Firefighters have managed to get the upperhand on a fire that heavily damaged a house in south Reading.

A man was ordered to take part in a drug counseling program for driving under the influence of marijuana when his car crashed, killing two of his passengers.

Police and officials at the Berks County coroner's office say 22-year-old Kristoffer Schildt was stabbed at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday.

A police officer shot an armed robbery suspect in Berks County late Sunday night.

Granted, this Pennsylvanian editorial writer is quite biased, I find it hard - myself - to defend shooting live pigeons released from cages: Dave Comroe stepped to the firing line, raised his 12-gauge Browning ...

Reading Eagle, Pa. Middle Jul. 13--Nearly 300 volunteers from 22 fire companies in Schuylkill and Berks counties battled a three-alarm blaze at an abandoned building on the grounds of Rest Haven, the Schuylkill ...

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A long-simmering dispute over a handicapped parking space in southeast Reading ended in gunfire Wednesday, leaving one man dead and his neighbor charged with murder, according to city police.

A Shillington man charged in a string of convenience store holdups waived a hearing Thursday before District Judge Timothy M. Dougherty.