Berks County News

Happy 30th birthday, Schlouch Inc. Founder: Deborah and Barry L. Schlouch Founded: March 3, 1983 Where: Shoemakersville; now at 132 Excelsior Drive, Blandon The company's principal leaders: Deborah and Barry, who is president and CEO.

An accident involving an overturned car closed a stretch of Route 222 near the border between Berks and Lancaster counties on Monday.

Michael Toledo, executive director of the Daniel Torres Hispanic Center, speaks to the League of Women Voters of Berks County about immigration reform.

Playing together are Loretta Emerick, left, of Bernville, and Jeff and Marie Kreamer, both of Mount Union, Huntingdon County, during the Early Bird Fiddle Festival at the Berks County Heritage Center in Bern Township on Saturday.

The bolt of lightning that lit up Stokesay Castle just before Christmas in 1991 was invisible to everyone except the first-time visitor who experienced it.

William W. Semmel, a trustee of the Mildred Gruber Arnold Trust Fund, with one of the new wayfinding signs at the Berks County Heritage Center in Bern Township.

Reading Eagle Ethan Shalaway already owned the Berks County record in the javelin.

The Berks County sheriff's department is seeking the following fugitives: Scott Dahms, 28, whose last known address was in Woodlyn, Delaware County, is wanted for violating his probation on forgery charges.

It's time to take a look back at the stories making headlines this week in the 69 News Week in Review.

TEANECK - A 43-year-old township man was arrested Thursday for his alleged role in a large Pennsylvania-based drug trafficking ring, according to Teaneck Patch .

Police on the scene of a crash at Fifth and Court streets shortly before midnight Thursday.

One vivid recollection was of some guy on stage sporting wire-rimmed spectacles, a beard and a derby.

A Dillsburg woman was arrested in Berks County last month when she lied about being kidnapped, according to a news release issued Thursday.

A local police chief and a school principal have their dog to thank for alerting them to a fire that destroyed their home and much of what they own.

Make that two more coal plants to go cold and many more to follow -- all to the loud cheers of environmental groups that don't want fracking for natural gas, either.

Instead, the life of Pennsylvania's 36th governor, George M. Leader, was celebrated Thursday with family memories, a haunting rendition of "We Shall Overcome," and lines of his own poetry - as he had scripted his own funeral, years ago.

Dozens of law enforcers presented officer Brad Fox's widow, Lynsay, with an honorary riding jersey in Berks County on Friday.

A suggestion made last month by Lower Pottsgrove state Rep. Mark Painter to designate the length of High Street as "Business U.S. Route 422," from the township's eastern boundary all the way west across Pottstown to the Berks County line, hasn't yet gained traction with the Board of Commissioners.

Lisbhett Yomayra Diaz surrendered to Berks County detectives Wednesday morning, a day after the detectives obtained a warrant for her arrest.

A Berks County businessman who shot and killed his wife nearly four years ago was ordered Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in prison.