Wyomissing News

It was a difficult task to try to raise $8.5 million in nine weeks. But Berks County did it.

The event, which was held this fall at the Riveredge Restaurant, Greenfields, raised approximately $8,000 for the facility.

When it comes to keeping the peace, Buddhists might not be the best persons to call on.

A Wyomissing hearing on a $30 million slots casino proposed for the borough is on hold until a county judge rules whether zoning amendments targeting the project were adopted legally.

Most parents wouldn't think of intentionally exposing their children to poisonous chemicals.

A tractor-trailer has flipped over on the ramp from Route 222 southbound to Route 422 westbound, near the Berkshire Mall, closing the ramp in Wyomissing and westbound 422.

Penn State Berks and the Crowne Plaza Reading hotel are separated by less than a mile.

Richard J. Yashek told his daughters little of his experiences in German concentration camps during World War II.

When a lightning strike destroyed their Wyomissing home two years ago, Lynne M. and Bruce M. Morris felt they had no choice but to continue to live where their roots are.

People living in Wyomissing, Berks County are singing the praises of former native Taylor Swift, a big winner in the County Music Awards that aired on CBS21 Wednesday night.

Matthew R. Peters is the founder and director of Volunteer Peten, a not-for-profit charitable organization working in the northern rainforest regions of Guatemala called the Peten.. In his presentation, Matthew will talk about the history and current situation of the rainforest in Central America, the massive social problems that plague Central ...

Officials in Spring Township and Wyomissing have said no to a power company that wanted to use the municipalities' letterheads to advertise its services to their residents.

Veterans were honored this morning in Berks County at Country Meadows in Wyomissing, during the Veterans Day Commemoration Service.

Show Amy O'Neill Richard an economic crisis or a regional conflict and she'll show you a situation ripe for trafficking in humans and child sex tourism.

A shootout in which one man was killed and another wounded at an apartment complex in the 1100 block of East Wyomissing Boulevard last week erupted during an attempted robbery, investigators said Monday.

Wyomissing is challenging the operators of a proposed casino to prove they have the right to appeal an ordinance setting conditions on a slots parlor in the Crowne Plaza Reading.

City police on Saturday continued their investigation into a shooting that left one man dead and another wounded outside the Wyomissing Garden Apartments complex.

Crime Alert Berks County, a citizen crime-fighting group, is offering cash rewards of as much as $5,000 to anyone supplying tips that lead to an arrest in this case or any other case or crime.

Police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead and sent another to the hospital.

Reading police are continuing to gather evidence in the 1100 block of East Wyomissing Boulevard, where one man was killed and another was wounded early today.