Berks County News

Fire Crews from Berks County and Lebanon County are on the scene of a barn fire at 81 Kreider Road in Jackson Township, Lebanon County.

Several North American dates on The Elton John/Billy Joel Face 2 Face concert tour are being rescheduled as John continues to battle the flu, promoters said.

Dozens of firefighters battled a two-alarm fire that gutted a house in Washington Township, Berks County this afternoon.

An aggressive campaign waged by Berks County Treasurer Nelson H. Long paid off Tuesday.

It seems Kate Gosselin is taking tips from her estranged husband Jon. The Gettysburg Times reported the Berks County mom was nabbed for speeding on Route 15, which bypasses Gettysburg last Thursday.

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

Several fire departments were dispatched this morning to a fire at the Berks Truck Wash on Willow Creek Road between Route 222 and Business Route 222 in Ontelaunee Township, Berks County.

The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office says it has broken up a $2.5 million marijuana distribution ring that moved the drug from New York to the Easton area and then resold it on Kutztown University's campus.

Two Berks County deputy sheriffs and a Wyomissing police officer were injured over the weekend when a suspected drunken driver crashed his pickup truck into a DUI checkpoint in Sinking Spring, authorities said Sunday.

Mandatory sentences Mission: In October 2007, the state House directed the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing to provide recommendations to revise mandatory sentencing laws.

The first major deployment of Berks County's newly formed SWAT team was called a success based on 33 of 35 team members arriving within 30 minutes at a Spring Township home where a heavily armed man had barricaded himself in the basement after reporting that his wife had been shot, the unit's leader said Thursday.

Levittown - Stars. Not hex signs, but stars.Patrick Donmoyer, 23, has spent more than a year documenting and photographing 400 examples of such celestial iconography, a form of folk art painted on Pennsylvania barns over the last three centuries.To Donmoyer, these stars matter as emblems of Pennsylvania German cultural identity.He is a true fan, ...

High school students and their families flocked to Albright College on Monday night, anxious to meet with college representatives and pick up brochures at the annual Berks County College Fair.

An eastern Pennsylvania man who held police at bay for more than seven hours in his basement has been charged with killing his wife.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday overturned thousands of juvenile-offender convictions handed down by a judge now charged in a corruption scandal.

Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a woman was found dead and a man surrendered to police after holding them at bay in the basement of his home for nearly eight hours.

Breaking news out of Spring Township. Police are on the scene of a possible shooting.

Reading police are making fewer arrests and issuing fewer citations as officers contemplate an uncertain future that might include being unemployed.

Madonna launched the construction of a multi-million dollar girls' school she is building in Malawi on Monday and pledged to build similar schools in other countries if the project succeeds.

Tom Corbett, state attorney general, addresses educators. Internet safety tips Parents of middle school students should share these Internet safety tips with them: a Don't respond to e-mail from people you don't know, or open files attached to those e-mail messages.