Hamburg News

A ceremony marking the production in Berks County of electronics that will help prevent injuries - some of which have been fatal - to U.S. military personnel was held Monday at the headquarters of a Muhlenberg Township-based defense contractor.

State police have charged two men with homicide by vehicle, saying they were racing and weaving in and out of traffic on Route 61 in Windsor Township on July 26 before a crash that killed the brother of one of the drivers.

All-points bulletin: keep your eyes peeled for a 5-foot tall, yellow, blue and orange distelfink.

Customers could receive more than $120. Customers of UGI Central Penn Gas in northern Berks County will be getting a one-time refund in their January bills because the cost of buying natural gas has dropped significantly, the company said Thursday.

A volunteer's journey to aid others in hospice care often begins with blankets. Sitting in Yarns R Us, 41 S. Fourth St., Hamburg, shop owner Kim Kehs, 53, Perry Township, joined some of her friends and customers busily knitting or crocheting.

Jamie Wagner, 56, Exeter Township, got in a comfortable position to push 91-year-old Lena Snyder's wheelchair.

Tyler J. Walthers has come a long way in four years. When he was 11 he made the front page of the Reading Eagle when he got into hot water with Hamburg school officials for showing up on picture day with a 4-inch, reddish-brown mohawk haircut held in place with Elmer's glue.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied an appeal by a third-party candidate who could not get on the ballot in a special election last spring, but one justice said the Berks County man raised "viable claims" about the state election code.

Berks County engineer William Z. Westcott thought a new Berne Station Bridge would span the Schuylkill River by now.

A manufacturing company in business for more than 60 years locally has cast its last iron.

A New Jersey woman accused of providing the gun that killed Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Joshua Miller now faces federal charges.

Two Hamburg Borough Council incumbents who won re-election said Wednesday that their immediate focus is passing a budget that does not increase property taxes.

The makers of ''The Men Who Stare At Goats'' have planted this epigraph before the movie: ''More of this is true than you would believe.'' But I heard one young man emerging from a preview saying, ''I don't think any of this is true.'' Who in their right mind would buy a story about a visionary Army officer embracing Eastern martial arts and West ...

PERRY TOWNSHIP Berks County Woman reaching for phone flips her car, police say A Northampton driver's sport utility vehicle flipped Monday night when she reached for her cell phone on Route 61 in Berks County, police said.

In 2006, Bon Jovi released a song called "Who Says You Can't Go Home." Three years later, former Reading Phillies reliever Nick Evangelista is headed back to his alma mater.

Reading Eagle A 10-year-old Hamburg girl was injured Sunday when her motorized scooter was struck by a car in the borough, Hamburg police said.

By Michelle Park Many hours of volunteer labor and more than 1,500 pounds of material were used to create a footbridge that makes it safer to use two trails in northern Berks County.

Reading Eagle The 2009 King Frost parade will begin Saturday at 7 p.m. at North Third Street and Port Clinton Avenue in Hamburg.

Road projects Interstate 176 between Exit 2 and Exit 10 : lane restrictions around the clock.

The swine! Online salesmen are trying to take advantage of your fears about swine flu .