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A ticket to paradise may be just what your new college graduate has in mind before starting the 9-to-5 grind.

Michael Toledo, executive director of the Daniel Torres Hispanic Center, speaks to the League of Women Voters of Berks County about immigration reform.

A collage of keys, photographs and a poem that pays homage to cars the creator owned over the years.

Todd Weiner of Fairview Mennonite Church argues for the Christian faith while Erich Scherfen, representing the Muslim community, listens during a friendly debate Saturday in Fairview Christian School.

Daily thought "How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth." Psalm 119:103 God's word is an acquired taste, but in the end, there is nothing sweeter in all the world.

Gail Savage paints on a feather at her studio located in the heart of the Blue Mountains in Bethel Township, where she is surrounded by nature.

Police on the scene of a crash at Fifth and Court streets shortly before midnight Thursday.

One vivid recollection was of some guy on stage sporting wire-rimmed spectacles, a beard and a derby.

A standing-room only crowd clapped for Issak Oliver Wolfe after he spoke to the Red Lion Area School Board Thursday night, describing how he has been hurt Wolfe has asked the district to allow his chosen name to be read at graduation.

For two weeks, the young, black pit bull was living in her own feces and urine, tied to a door, alone, in a second-floor apartment in the 900 block of Elm Street in Reading, authorities said.

Chester and Montgomery counties have issued alerts for a 13-year-old girl from Reading, who was last seen Wednesday.

Colonial Regional police have made an arrest in the case of an Easton woman accused of successfully cashing phony checks shortly before last Christmas at the Walmart in Lower Nazareth Township.

Dozens of law enforcers presented officer Brad Fox's widow, Lynsay, with an honorary riding jersey in Berks County on Friday.

The man who lives in Ariel Castro's old home in Reading said he's not happy about his residence being associated with the accused kidnapper.

Daily thought "Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I keep your word." Psalm 119:67 Affliction, or difficulties, serves this purpose: to teach us to follow him.

A tip called in to Crime Alert Berks County led to the arrest of a man wanted in the rape of a Hamburg woman last week, police said.

DISABLED AND WORKING Five years after starting to keep track of whether people with disabilities are working, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has found fewer people with disabilities in the labor force even as the population has grown.

The Issue: Mayor Vaughn D. Spencer and the Charter Board agree to unseal documents about a board ruling.

Three open seats with only one returning incumbent and debate over selecting a site for a county radio tower helped fuel a six-way Republican primary in the Cumru Township commissioners race.

A city man apologized before he was sentenced Monday in Berks County Court to 27 1/2 to 55 years in state prison for fatally shooting a man in a May 2012 botched robbery near the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in Reading.