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Sid Bratt of Reading was 9 years old the night he watched his synagogue burn. As a mob danced and sang and yelled outside, Bratt and his family peeked out the windows of their apartment in East Prussia, then a German province.

A quarter-slice at a time, customers at the Redner's Family Expo sampled 200 pounds of Lebanon bologna on Sunday.

Another round of face-to-face negotiations between Governor Rendell and legislative leaders on Wednesday appeared to produce little progress on legislation that would legalize table games at Pennsylvania casinos.

Question: Do you fear that proposed Senate health insurance legislation would take funds from Medicare to provide health care for the uninsured? Talk of the Town features your comments on a current issue in the news.

The Berks County sheriff's department has provided this information about people wanted for failure to appear in family court.

Halloween is traditionally a time to visit our darker side in costume, and nothing appears darker these days than real-life celebrities.

A two-alarm fire Tuesday morning destroyed the office of a limousine and bus service that is attached to a commercial-truck facility in Ontelaunee Township, fire officials said.

Fire crews are wrapping up operations following a two-alarm blaze this morning that damaged a commercial truck facility on Willow Creek Road in Ontelaunee Township.

Carlos Rubirosa of Reading was looking for a really scary mask for his girlfriend at the Spirit Halloween costume store in Temple.

WINDSOR TOWNSHIP Berks County Man dies in car accident on Route 61 An 82-year-old man was killed in a crash on Route 61 in Windsor Township, Berks County Friday afternoon, state police at Hamburg said.

A seemingly small but unresolved piece of the state budget has delayed millions of dollars in aid for state-supported colleges, museums, and hospitals.

Work started Monday on a $3.1 million reconstruction of the Fifth Street Highway in Muhlenberg Township.

Welcome to The Machine: The Pink Floyd tribute band known as The Machine, above, returns to the Sovereign Center in downtown Reading on Friday at 8 p.m. Featuring state-of-the-art lighting and musicianship honed over 20 years, The Machine is comprised of four performers whose repertoire encompasses the entire Pink Floyd catalog of songs.

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Former Penn State wide receiver Maurice Humphrey was arrested on three outstanding warrants Friday as he came into State College for Penn State's football game against Temple.

The Berks County sheriff's department has provided this information about people wanted for failure to appear in family court.

Question: Dan Brown's new book, "The Lost Symbol," has sold more than 2 million copies in its first week of release in the United States, Canada and Britain.

Theft A student reported the theft of the rear wheel assembly from his bicycle while it was secured to the bicycle rack located on the south east side of Chambers Building.

Muhlenberg Township's commissioners voted unanimously to buy a nearly $1 million, 121-foot ladder truck for the Goodwill of Hyde Park Fire Company.

At 53 years old, Meme DeSantis is an elder statesman of the region's 358-modified circuit.