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The Berks County sheriff's department has provided this information about people wanted for failure to appear in family court. Included on this list are those who are delinquent in child-support payments and for whom bench warrants had been issued as...

Projects involve lane restrictions and run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. unless otherwise noted.DAILYRiver Bridge Road, Route 422 to Route 724, Amity and Union townships: bridge closed.Interstate 176 near Route 422 in Cumru Township: around the clock.Route 6...

Reading EagleThe following area students received bachelor of arts degrees from Arcadia University, Glenside, Montgomery County:Carolyn R. Lesser, Exeter Township, elementary education with honors; Sean M. Morris, Sinking Spring, criminal justice; Ho...

No matter how it ends, both he and his accuser have already suffered

Antlered and antlerless deer taken during the 2012-13 hunting season in Pennsylvania: 343,110Source: Pennsylvania Game Commission

Gene Shakespeare has shot many deer in his 45 years of hunting, but says his most thrilling moment in the woods came four years ago without firing a bullet.He was standing next to his grandson, Christian Rolon, just 10 at the time, when the boy shot ...

Editor:Congressional Republicans should not have attempted to defund Obamacare. Long before the government shutdown there were ominous rumblings that this bureaucratic monstrosity was going to be in trouble.In 2009, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., called Pr...

Editor:The admonition that incorrectly has been ascribed to President Abraham Lincoln about fooling all of the people all of the time is being put to the test during this open enrollment period for Medicare supplemental health insurance.The prolifera...

Editor:I wanted to respond to the letter "Rainbows existed since the beginning" (Reading Eagle, Nov. 26).Letter writer Hal Brossman correctly states that the laws of refraction and reflection would have been in existence since the universe began. How...

The Issue: The chancellor of the state college system will lobby the Legislature for better funding. Our Opinion: He is right to argue that the schools' graduates are a net plus to the state's economy.Givers, not takers. That's how Frank T. Brogan, t...