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Robesonia Borough Council approved an ordinance Monday evening creating the position of borough manager.The full-time position will pay $40,000 a year. The manager will handle the daily operations of the borough.Borough Secretary Lisa K. Heilman, is ...

The Reading Parking Authority already runs residential parking permit zones on 18 city blocks, but is working on a plan to offer the zones to other neighborhoods that ask for them.But the authority needs an ordinance change allowing it to enforce the...

Walking halfway around the poinsettia- and candle-covered table, guests watched some lists grow longer.The sheets of paper bore the names of Berks County residents who died of AIDS each year, beginning in the 1980s.Back then, an AIDS diagnosis was a ...

The Wilson School Board has announced it is seeking district residents interested in filling the board seat left empty by the death of George E. Mack.A past president and 14-year member of the board, Mack, 80, died Nov. 28. Three weeks earlier, his f...

The Associated PressCONCORD, N.H. - A traveling medical technician was sentenced Monday to 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers and infecting dozens of patients in multiple states with hepatitis C through tainted syringes.Kwiatkowski, 34, was ...

Hannah Bankes had one of the best scoring averages in Berks County last season, tying Reading High's Isis Thorpe for the lead at 19.4 points per game.That's saying something, particularly because Thorpe was a two-time Berks League Player of the Year....

Consider the list of Oley Valley players who have graduated over the past two years.It starts with 1,000-point scorers Jasmen Clark and Breanne Lamey, post players Miranda Krott and Loryn Grieb, and includes guards Courtney Dunn and Nicole Vallely.It...

"Once there was a boy named Gary who was diagnosed with HIV, and all of his family disowned the disease."So began a story stitched into a panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, displayed Monday as part of a World AIDS Day program at Kutztown University.Ac...

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Los Angeles TimesSame-sex marriages began on Monday in Hawaii as the place where the initial battles for gay marriage recognition started decades ago became the latest state to authorize the ceremony.Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have l...