Mendenhall News

Police officers from Los Angeles are escorted from the Berks County Courthouse by Berks deputy sheriffs on bikes Monday as part of a salute to fallen Deputy Kyle D. Pagerly.

MENDENHALL, PA - Mitt Romney, who was all-but-crowned the Republican party's nominee on Tuesday after Rick Santorum suspended his campaign, sought to reframe the battle for female voters by accusing the Obama administration of waging "the real war on women" through its failure to jumpstart the economy.

Efforts by Berks County Sheriff Eric J. Weaknecht to get the public involved in providing tips resulted in more than twice as many arrests by the sheriff's department in the last year over 2009.