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"The Last Airbender" a movie directed by M. Night Shyamalan and which was filmed partly at the Rading pagoda on Mount Penn and Beltsville Lake will be one of the movie trailers featured in an ad during the Super Bowl Sunday.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Reading man on charges that he lied on a firearms transaction form and bought a handgun for another person at a St.

Reading Eagle Camilla D. Clardy and several volunteers handed out 50 bags of food to homeless and hungry people on Penn Street on Sunday morning.

Roosevelt Miller was fascinated by the aerobatics of a crop duster swooping low across the fields near his hometown of Percy, Miss., in the early 1940s.

Crews from the Reading Area Water Authority are responding to a broken water main in the 300 block of Clifton Avenue in southwest Reading.

Some of the victims of the earthquake in Haiti have been flown out of the country to safer places around the world.

Any Berks County native over the age of 40 can remember the sights and sounds of the Reading Fair during its glory days in Muhlenberg Township.

A Reading man was arrested on charges he stabbed a 19-year-old man who was fighting with his 15-year-old son in the 700 block of Pear Street, police said Monday.

The Reading School District is getting a long-overdue upgrade to its telephone system for about $1.43 million.

Reading Eagle A Reading man wanted on an outstanding warrant was arrested after a foot chase early Saturday, city police said.

With the city considering whether, and to whom, to outsource its recreation programs, Rusty F. Bahr had one message for City Council last week.

A man arrested for Reading's first murder of 2010 was led into court wearing bunny slippers this afternoon.

Reading police have made an arrest in the Jan. 17 murder of a 45-year-old Muhlenberg Township man in the 800 block of Elm Street.

Reading Eagle A Reading man has been sentenced in Montgomery County Court to four to eight years in state prison for assaulting a Pottstown woman with a wrench in December 2008.

Two eastern Pennsylvania men are in custody after police say they were busted transporting 100 pounds of marijuana.

Police in Berks County seized approximately 100 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop Tuesday.

Reading firefighters are on the scene of a blaze in a row house in the 500 block of Moss Street.

Reading Eagle An overheated extension cord caused the fire that damaged a 2 1/2-story row house on Moss Street and displaced the resident, a city fire investigator said Monday.

Reading Eagle State police at Somerset are looking for a woman who allegedly burned her house down and may be hiding in Reading or Lebanon, troopers said Saturday.