Berks County News

Police from across the region held a heartfelt fundraiser for one of their own who lost almost everything to a massive fire.

According to the Pottstown Mercury , Joseph Anthony Samsel Jr., 25, of the 100 block of West Ridge Pike, pleaded guilty to charges of burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary in connection with a string of 21 break-ins from July 2012 to January 2013.

Geese fly past smokestacks in Kansas. Carbon dioxide is at a level unseen in two million years or more, experts say.

A flowered pottery jar by the late Lester Breininger is among items to be auctioned Saturday at his former residence in Robesonia.

Local lockups, county jails, state prisons and federal correctional institutions are filled and overflowing across the United Sates.

Rachel Schweitzer of Shillington, with her dog, Punky, sits with her mother Bonnie Allensworth of Sinking Spring and her dogs Jonah and Jorga.

Protests against locating an emergency radio communications tower in Bethel Township continued Thursday when the Rev.

Cops seized $300,000 worth of cocaine, $75,000 worth of heroin, four guns and more than $50,000 in cash.

Berks County's Certified Emergency Response Team , commonly known as a SWAT team, has arrived on the scene of a standoff where a teenager has reportedly barricaded himself in a home.

A convicted burglar was arrested after probation officers found two revolvers, cocaine and drug paraphernalia in his Reading apartment, police said Wednesday.

The Storm Prediction Center has part of the region under a slight risk for severe weather today -- essentially it's north and west of I-95 through Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey that are at risk for some strong or damaging winds from any thunderstorms that fire up.

The rides will be free with proof of military service beginning Wednesday and ending on Saturday, a 96-hour period reminiscent of the 96-hour liberty pass occasionally granted to those in military service.

The Issue: More than a decade after Hope Babel was beaten and burned, Ryan J. Stufflet was charged with her murder.

Reading Eagle A Reading High School student has been arrested for assaulting two security guards who broke up a fight outside the school cafeteria, police said Wednesday.

Some of the most talented young performers in Berks County dazzled the crowd Wednesday night.

The three women in the eight-way competition for two open judgeships in Berks County Court were the top vote getters on both the Republican and Democratic tickets, and will proceed to the Nov.

At the height of Wednesday's outage, Met-Ed said approximately 4,100 of its customers were without electricity.

American Legion Post 934 will pay tribute to the nation's fallen heroes with its 32nd annual Memorial Day parade and service.

The Bernville community in Berks County will pay tribute to the nation's military heroes past and present on Memorial Day.

Police searching for Matthew Royer, a missing University of Rhode Island student from Montgomery County, are following a new lead in the case.