Reading News

Reading Eagle A Lancaster man and a Reading teenager were arrested shortly after they held up employees at a Wyomissing restaurant, borough police said Saturday.

Reading Eagle A 28-year-old man was charged in an attempted holdup Friday at a city nail salon that was committed by a knife-wielding man who said he was homeless and hungry.

Reading Eagle A Reading man set the roof of his apartment house on fire Thursday while he was igniting illegal fireworks from his apartment's second-floor porch, fire officials said.

From wire reports WASHINGTON - The Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday that Reading-based Simplicity Inc.

Still two days to go until the 4th of July and already fireworks are causing problems in the city of Reading.

Reading Eagle A 21-year-old woman and her 56-year-old mother were sentenced to prison Thursday for stabbing a woman during an argument in Reading.

While Rosa Vasquez lay bleeding on the floor, pleading with God to stop her son from stabbing her again, Edwin Hernandez came along.

Reading Eagle Reading police have arrested a 19-year-old city man on charges he shot another man three times during a robbery last week in the 300 block of North Ninth Street.

Reading Eagle City Councilman Stratton P. Marmarou has been found not guilty of harassing a group of Albright College students outside their house in the 1500 block of North 14th Street.

The Reading Police Bomb Squad responded to a call from Planned Parenthood building at Fourth and Franklin streets Friday afternoon when workers reported receiving a suspicious package.

Reading Mayor Tom McMahon joined the mayors of four other Pennsylvania cities here Tuesday to say that if state legislators don't soon provide urgently needed municipal tax relief, numerous cities will end up with their budgets under state control.

Thursday 25 Jun Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 09:00AM READING, Pa. Phillies starter Tyson Brummett walked four batters in his five-plus innings of work Wednesday night against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.

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A convicted killer who was arrested after Reading police said he doused a woman with gasoline and set her on fire had been staying in a city facility where paroled felons undergo treatment, a state parole official said Friday.

Gov. Ed Rendell signed a death warrant Friday for a 45-year-old Reading man who raped and strangled a 69-year-old Sunday school teacher in her home in September 2002.

A 32-year-old convicted killer from Philadelphia was arrested shortly after he doused a woman with gasoline and set her on fire Thursday in her northwest Reading home, city police said.

Kate Gosselin whipped out that famous bikini body hanging around outside her Reading, PA, home today.

Reading officials said a woman was doused with gasoline and set on fire in a domestic dispute in the 800 block of Lincoln Street this morning.

Reading police arrested two men on Wednesday after surveillance cameras captured a drug deal in progress in the 300 block of North Sixth Street, officials said.

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