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The Associated PressPHILADELPHIA - Matt Read scored two goals, Steve Mason made 36 saves, and the streaking Philadelphia Flyers beat the New York Islanders 5-2 Saturday night.The Flyers evened their record (10-10-2) for the first time this season wit...

The Associated PressINDIANAPOLIS - Indiana coach Frank Vogel found out shortly before tip-off that Philadelphia would be playing without some of its key players."It's tough to play a game when you find out at the last minute that three or four of the...

PHILADEPLPHIA - Any thoughts that the Philadelphia Eagles might be a surprise playoff team seemed to vanish a month ago.Back-to-back home losses to NFC East rivals left the Eagles at 3-5. Not only did they lose division games to the Giants and Cowboy...

Reading EagleA driver and his passenger were flown to Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center with severe injuries following a high-speed crash Saturday night in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County. Tyler Schaeffer, 21, of Pine Grove was parti...

The Associated PressALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A powerful storm system that has caused hundreds of accidents across the West has marched eastward with widespread snow, freezing temperatures and gusty winds.The fierce weather has caused at least eight deaths...

Reading EagleA 23-year-old Montgomery County man was killed in a single-vehicle crash early Saturday in New Hanover Township near Pottstown.Barak Cushman of Sanatoga was pronounced dead at the scene in the 2600 block of Swamp Pike about 1:40 a.m., ac...

The Associated PressTORONTO - This is the mayor Toronto could have had: George Smitherman, an openly gay liberal who overcame an admitted history of drug use to become Ontario's deputy premier.Instead, Canada's largest city got Mayor Rob Ford, whose ...

The Associated PressGENEVA - Iran struck a historic nuclear deal today with the United States and five other world powers, in the most significant development between Washington and Tehran in more than three decades of estrangement between the two na...

Reading EagleFire officials are calling at least one and as many as three homes losses following a three-alarm fire that ravaged a block on Pottsville's Bunker Hill, near the historic Yuengling Brewery, on Friday afternoon."One suffered a collapse an...

No. 2 Berks Catholic relies on its speed and takes advantage of turnovers to overwhelm top-seeded Littlestown.