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An off-duty employee at a Reading pizzeria was arrested after he used a gun to threaten a customer who set off a firecracker in the restaurant Sunday night, police said Monday.

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A man was flown to the hospital late this morning after suffering burns over 20% of his body, according to the chief of the Bernville Fire Company in Berks County.

A man was flown from Bernville to a hospital this morning with burns on about 20 percent of his body suffered when he tried to light a fire in nearby Penn Township, officials said.

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An 18-year-old Bernville man was injured in a fight involving two other men Wednesday afternoon on Main Street in the borough, state police said.

UPPER TULPEHOCKEN TOWNSHIP Berks County Police seek man charged with running over dog State police at Hamburg are searching for a man who allegedly killed a dog in front of its owner and then, after assuring him he'd return, never came back.

A block of North Weaber Street in Annville Township will be closed to traffic for road construction starting Monday.

Reading Eagle: Tim Leedy Albert Perez is led away from a Berks County courtroom Wednesday after receiving the death sentence for killing a Bernville woman and her 5-year-old daughter.

An eastern Pennsylvania man has received the death penalty for the January 2007 slayings of his ex-girlfriend and her 5-year-old daughter.

Jurors have reached their verdict in the penalty phase of the trial for a man they convicted last week of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her young daughter.

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Today Memorial Day events are scheduled throughout Berks County, including at 8:30 a.m. in Kutztown; 9 a.m. in Mohnton and Exeter Township; 2 p.m. in Bernville; and 3 p.m. at Belleman's Church in Centre Township.

A 68-year-old Berks County man was charged with threatening his wife with a knife yesterday morning, Bethel Township police said.

The wife of convicted murderer Albert Perez told a Berks County jury Wednesday that she was not surprised her husband was found guilty of hanging his ex-girlfriend and her daughter.

A Pennsylvania man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 5-year-old daughter has been convicted of first-degree murder and could get the death penalty.

After little more than two hours of deliberations, a jury has found a Berks County man guilty of first degree murder for the killings of his ex-girlfriend and her five-year-old daughter inside the victims' home in Bernville in January, 2007.

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Case facts Defendant: Albert Perez, 28, of the 300 block of Chestnut Street. Victims: Duceliz Diaz-Santiago, 22, and her daughter, Kayla, 5, of Main Street, Bernville.