Hamburg News

Reading Eagle State police at Hamburg were searching Sunday for a Tilden Township man who has been missing since Thursday.

First of an eight-part series. A year ago, the Brandywine Heights School District made pretty much every cut its leaders could think of to close the gap in its budget.

Berks County detectives have charged a father and son with selling synthetic marijuana and bath salts at their family's Hamburg store, which authorities also had raided in April.

Hamburg Middle School eighth-grader Jarred Steinfurth places a flag at the grave of a soldier at St.

The Twin Valley School Board is taking what some members regard as a gamble on the future with a proposed tax-abatement zone in New Morgan.

Road projects Projects involve lane restrictions and run from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

A Hamburg man remained in Berks County Prison on Monday after he and his son were arrested by the county sheriff's fugitive task force.

Reading Eagle State police at the Hamburg station will inspect child safety seats for free this week.

A car driven by Sterling Weidman, 85, of 8100 Lancaster Ave., Bethel Township, Berks County, pulled out from his home's driveway and struck the driver's side of a pick-up truck driven by Brian Stauffer, 41, of Bethel, that was traveling south at 3:30 p.m. Friday, state police at Hamburg said.

UGI Gas Utilities on Thursday asked the state Public Utility Commission to drop the rate it charges its residential customers by 4.3 percent effective Dec.

State police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint in Berks County this weekend. Troopers from Reading and Hamburg may also conduct roving patrols looking for drunken drivers, officials said.

There aren't many fresh challenges in sportsman racing available for Craig Whitmoyer.

Daily thought "For thou alone, O Lord, makest me dwell in safety." Psalm 4:8 There are many kinds of safety in life: physical, financial, emotional, political and psychological.

The career of architect Milton B. Bean, who designed the 1892 Public School in Kutztown, will be the topic Sunday at 2 p.m. at a meeting of the Kutztown Historical Society.

The Hamburg School Board unanimously passed a tentative budget with a 1 percent tax increase for 2012-13 at its meeting Monday night.

CRASH IN THE WOODS: Emergency crew members work at the scene of a three-vehicle crash on Route 117 in South Londonderry Township, about a mile west of Mt.

A 16-year-old Greenwich Township girl waived a hearing Tuesday in the death of her newborn son who drowned in a bathtub after she delivered the healthy infant in her family's home Jan.

Freedom Auto Group President Eric Savage, center, serves as honorary chairman of Monday's Meals on Wheels Celebrity Volunteer-for-a-Day program.

Hamburg Area School District officials have decided to revise the dress code for the 2012-2013 school year rather than giving it a complete makeover.

Officials said the crash happened around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, at Clauss Road and Old Route 22 in Windsor Township.