Temple News

Two Temple men were arrested on drug charges after Muhlenberg Township police said Monday that they found marijuana and 72 prescription painkillers in a pickup truck the men were in under a Route 12 overpass.

After you see the sun sink low over the Horn of Africa a few times, it kind of gets old, especially when you have a wife and son waiting for you in sunny Florida and a family that has left an empty place for you at their Christmas table back in Berks County.

The Christmas tree in George Milton Hasker's Temple home is loaded with chunks of wood.

"... I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." - Blanche DuBois, from "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams If you've ever tried to sit on a three-legged stool crippled by a wobbly leg, you know what happened.

The House last night approved hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for state-related universities, which had been caught in a political crossfire over the legalization of table games at casinos.

A $1.2 million insurance settlement was approved Thursday in Berks County Court for the parents of a Hamburg High School honor student and standout athlete who was fatally injured in a crash in Tilden Township.

The children at the Neversink Union Mission school show up sharply in the once-faded photo on Page 138.

Fifteen more layoffs of city workers now seem likely, but it could be 37 more if city unions reject a last concession, administration officials said Monday.

Amy Kerlin felt a tinge of sadness to be five hours away from her family in Beaver County for the first time on Thanksgiving.

Reading Eagle Volunteers took part in the annual hanging of the greens in 78 pole planters along Penn and Washington streets on Saturday.

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.