Berks County News

In two important ways, last month was the coolest June in 17 years. And drought concerns were washed away by thunderstorms spawned by unsettled weather.

Appeal date The Berks County assessment office is accepting appeals from property owners who think their assessments are too high.

Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty Berks County 4-H volunteer Roger Bowman on his Greenwich Township farm.

Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden Full of toxic metals, this set, put out with the trash near Third and Walnut streets in Reading, is likely destined for a landfill.

A New Holland man was killed when two pickup trucks collided Tuesday morning on Route 23 in Caernarvon Township, near Morgantown, according to the Reading Eagle newspaper's Web site.

Know your parasites To teach youngsters and teens about mosquitoes and ticks, Robert Hopkins, Berks County insects program coordinator, has developed a hands-on workshop to teach about insects that carry disease.

A second-degree murder conviction was proper for a 29-year-old Reading man who drove the car when a worker at a McDonalda s drive-through window was killed, according to a Berks County Court judge.

The United States said on Monday it views the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya as a coup but is not legally declaring this for now, a step that would require Washington cut off most aid to Tegucigalpa.

Berks County's schools lead way in health care Editor's note: Dr. Joe Yarworth served as a member of the Berks County Schools Health Consortium board of directors from 1994 until 2005.

At least 14 people were killed and 50 injured overnight in Italy when a freight train hauling liquefied petroleum gas derailed and exploded as it passed their homes, officials said on Tuesday.

A three-alarm fire gutted a house on a farm in Maxatawny Township, Berks County, just north of Kutztown, this morning.

A Lebanon man was sentenced Monday in Berks County Court to life in prison for killing the sister of a woman he had dated.

The jailed former funeral director was convicted of assaulting a deputy coroner and a nurse's aide.

"It may be a crazy life, but it's our life," Kate Gosselin said in the introduction to her family's reality TV show, "Jon & Kate Plus 8." Many Franklin County families watch the reality television show on TLC featuring their fellow Pennsylvanians -- a young couple who first had a set of twins, then, trying for "just one more" child, as the show's ...

The man who police jumped into the Schuylkill River last weekend turned up dead Saturday morning.

Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty Khalid Tounsi, 2, and his mother, Eliz Souza, of Reading on Wednesday during a children's program at the Reading Public Library.

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Strong storms blew through Berks County tonight. Poles, wires and trees were sent crashing to the ground in Amity and Douglass Townships.

Gov. Ed Rendell signed a death warrant Friday for a 45-year-old Reading man who raped and strangled a 69-year-old Sunday school teacher in her home in September 2002.

A man was shot early Tuesday during an apparent robbery attempt near his home in the 300 block of North Ninth Street, police said.