Berks County high school closing 2 days after surge of COVID cases

Exeter Senior High School, in Reading, set to close the campus for two days and shift to all-virtual learning, due to a COVID surge, officials said.

Reading woman sentenced to 15-years in prison for sex trafficking two teens in 2017

A Reading woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after prosecutors said she drugged and sex-trafficked two teenage girls for at least three months in 2017.

Berks County cop won't be charged in deadly officer-involved shooting of knife-wielding man, DA says

A Muhlenberg Township police officer will not face charges after he shot and killed a knife-wielding man who charged at officers during a domestic incident last month, District Attorney John T. Adams announced Thursday. 

Reading man charged in hit-and-run of 2 children, police say

A Berks County man is facing charges after he allegedly hit two children who were crossing the street while riding his three-wheeled motorcycle Monday night in Reading, according to police.

Man sought in 2018 quadruple homicide in Reading arrested

 Federal authorities have announced the arrest in Florida of a fugitive wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of four men in a Reading row house more than three years ago.

Coroner: Berks County worker killed in fall into lead refining furnace

The Berks County coroner's office said 30-year-old John Evanoff fell into a refining kettle portion of a furnace at a battery manufacturing plant in Richmond Township.

United States says it will reduce detention of immigrant families

U.S. immigration authorities will no longer use a small Pennsylvania detention center to hold parents and children seeking asylum, part of a broader shift by President Joe Biden’s administration to reduce the use of family detention.

Multi-county gun trafficking organization dismantled in Pennsylvania

Fourteen defendants were arrested for a gun trafficking organization that operated in Montgomery, Bucks, Berks, Lancaster and Philadelphia counties.

Police: 14-year-old boy arrested in fatal double shooting in Reading

One teenage girl was killed and another wounded in a shooting in eastern Pennsylvania in which a teenage boy is facing charges, authorities said.

Police: Man who fled police recovered from flooded quarry

Police in Muhlenberg Township said the suspect ran from officers investigating a shoplifting report Friday morning at a Target store.

Nearly 70k chickens die in fire at Berks County farm

Nearly 70,000 chickens perished early Thursday as fire swept through several buildings at a Pennsylvania farm.

Investigation underway after video shows confrontation between Reading police officer and residents

Witnesses say residents confronted Reading police officers during what they viewed as an aggressive arrest and it escalated quickly. At one point, one officer is heard saying, "Yeah come on, shut up ghetto girl."

Reading man arrested and charged with indecent assault of a minor, officials announce

A Reading man surrendered to Berks County detectives after a warrant was issued for his arrest on charges of Indecent Assault of a Minor, officials announced Wednesday.