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Daily thought"Honor your father and your mother." Exodus 20: 12aOur parents are a blessing from the Lord! - The Rev. Bill Miller, St. Thomas Church, Bernville.BirthsIn Reading Hospital:A son to Zachary and Jill (Wise) Rudy, Spring Township.In St. Jos...

Ambitiously working towards a Nov. 30 deadline, the City of Reading Revitalization and Improvement Zone Authority voted Monday to approve the submission of an application for a CRIZ zone designation to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Eco...

Wyomissing resident Gail Freymoyer has been attending school board meetings for more than 35 years, and on Monday she made her plea to the board."If you proceed with your plans for the fence, in spite of the community's opposition, it will be quite o...

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Average price per gallon (regular unleaded)$3.38 Monday$3.30 A week ago$3.58 One year ago

Feast-minded motorists facing higher fuel costs, bleak forecast

An 18-year-old Schuylkill County girl shared some intimate photos of herself with a slightly older man she'd been dating.And during their romance, the pair made a video of themselves having sex.When the boyfriend became physically abusive, the young ...

McClatchy-TribuneWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama told a heckler who interrupted a speech on immigration Monday that he will not circumvent Congress and try to halt deportations by executive order because the U.S. is "a nation of laws." "Please us...

The Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO - President Barack is pushing back against liberals who are urging him to act unilaterally to take steps Congress has blocked.Obama says executive orders "basically nullify Congress," adding that there are no shortcu...

The Associated PressWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's health care law is headed for a new Supreme Court showdown over companies' religious objections to the law's birth-control mandate.Amid the troubled rollout of the health law, and 17 months af...