Topton News

Forget about baseball cards and football cards - the cool things for kids to have these days are law enforcement trading cards.

Fire destroyed a three-unit apartment building in Topton early Monday, fire officials said.

Firefighters in Berks County battled a two-alarm fire that broke out at a house that had been converted into apartments this morning.

Firefighters are mopping up after a three-alarm residential fire in Topton. Dispatchers at the Berks County Communications Center said the fire was reported about 3 a.m. at 15 South Callowhill St.

The amazing small world the late Richard Gougler created is on display in Kutztown.

If you spend an entire day cooking at your full-time job, you might think that preparing meals would be the last thing you would want to do when you get home from work.

In the 1950s, Jim Mabry would go to see his uncle, Emory Mabry, perform on stage with the Longswamp Minstrels.

At first, 17-year-old Stephanie Renninger was looking to organize a showcase for local Christian music that would also raise money for Habitat for Humanity and for the needy and scholarships at her church, Huff's Union Church in Alburtis .

This weekend, racks of stoneware and wood crafts, hot glass kilns and spinning wheels will share space in the basements, garages and living rooms that serve as the studios of the Lehigh Valley's artists.

A 26-year-old man helping to cut down a tree on Allentown's east side was injured fatally this afternoon when a heavy tree limb fell on his head, authorities said.

I look forward to the hot co-co with marshmallows after our family decides together which Christmas tree to cut and buy.

OLEY TOWNSHIP Berks County Man charged with threatening judge after guilty verdict A Topton man was charged Monday with threatening the family of District Judge Victor Frederick of Oley Township, who had just found him guilty of defiant trespass.

Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty Visitors tour a model Diakon Smart Home on Wednesday on the campus of The Lutheran Home at Topton.

As we all know, Mr. Spacely had his sprockets and the townships, thankfully, have their COGS.

Longswamp Township supervisors have tabled discussion on plans to build a sewage treatment plant.

I keep thinking that riding a bicycle will eventually teach me some life lessons or even, perhaps, offer some theological insights.

Nursing homes in Berks County could be severely affected by the next state budget, which remained more than three months overdue Monday in Harrisburg.

Brandywine Heights School District students are doing better on standardized tests, but at what cost? The school board was told at its meeting Monday that the district's middle school students recently scored better on the PSSAs than in previous years and that the school could earn the state's adequate yearly progress status in 2010 after six years ...

ISO my birth parents. Born July 3rd 1970 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Adopted at 3 months old.

Reading Eagle Three people remained in Lehigh Valley Hospital near Allentown on Sunday with injuries suffered in a head-on collision near Topton, officials said.