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Personal finance publication features ideas from more than 125 certified public accountants
Reading Eagle, Pa.There's a new personal finance book published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Bruce Rhoads, a CPA with Herbein & Co. Inc., Spring Township, has had a part in it. Rhoads, 61, of Wyomissing is semi-retired at this time of the...Tags: Book, Travel, Trips and Vacations, Consultancy Service, Financial Planning
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Chase in Reading ends in crash
Reading Eagle, Pa.An Allentown man was arrested after he crashed a car into a tree in downtown Reading while drunk and fleeing a police officer, then bolted from the car, leaving behind an injured passenger, police said Friday. Diego Hernandez-Rivera, 24, was arrested by...Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Allentown
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Man jailed on two shoplifting charges
Reading Eagle, Pa.A Maidencreek Township man who was jailed earlier this year for shoplifting was back in Berks County Prison on charges he stole from Cabela's and The Home Depot about a month apart, authorities said Friday. Christopher L. Haller, 35, of the 200 block of...Tags: Punishment, Justice System, Heroin, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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UGI seeks to increase rates 13.5% by year's end
Reading Eagle, Pa.After dropping steadily for the past five years, natural gas prices have finally reached the point where it is no longer profitable for companies to produce the abundant clean-burning fuel. Natural gas prices for about 90,000 Berks County users...Tags: Energy Resources, Natural Gas, UGI Utilities, Petroleum Industry
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Pair fires shots into house on Perkiomen Avenue
Reading Eagle, Pa.A pair of gunmen shot up a house in the 1100 block of Perkiomen Avenue early Friday while two occupants were sleeping, police said. No one was hurt by the gunfire about 3:30 a.m., investigators said. Bullets went through the first-floor window and...Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Transportation Accidents
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Pennside man arrested on child pornography charges
Reading Eagle, Pa.A 22-year-old Pennside man has been arrested on charges filed by the state attorney general's Child Predator Unit that he downloaded five videos of prepubescent girls in sexual acts and shared them through the Internet. Ronald J. Stubblebine of the...Tags: Pornography, Abusive Behavior, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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EDITORIAL: Kutztown's class of .45
The Philadelphia InquirerAmid a national debate about gun control sparked by a school shooting, Kutztown University's decision to permit guns on campus looks like a step in exactly the wrong direction. Kutztown last week became the only state-owned university in Pennsylvania to...Tags: Politics, Students, Colleges and Universities, Kutztown, Gun Control
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Reading mayor's appeal documents unsealed
Reading Eagle, Pa.Berks County Judge Timothy J. Rowley has granted Mayor Vaughn D. Spencer's request to unseal the documents in Spencer's court appeal of a city Charter Board ruling that the mayor illegally hired employees to jobs City Council had not created. Now...Tags: Justice System, Judges, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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BRIEF: 2 beat, rob blind man in Reading; police seek help
Reading Eagle, Pa.Reading police said a blind man walking to Reading Area Community College from a bus stop was beaten and robbed by a man and woman Thursday afternoon. The victim, whose name was withheld by police, was not seriously injured in the attack, which occurred... -
Transit officials look to the future
Reading Eagle, Pa.Transit officials in Berks County have come up with a list of goals for improving services and might start looking for some grants to help meet them. County planners and BARTA officials met with a small group of private and nonprofit transportation... -
Boyertown senior center to take 10% budget hit
Reading Eagle, Pa.Boyertown Area Multi-Service Inc. will suffer an immediate $50,000 budget cut this year -- about 10 percent of its funding for senior services -- with recent federal and state funding reductions announced by the Berks County Area Agency on Aging. The...Tags: United Way , Business Enterprises, Boyertown, Physical Conditions
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Dogs taken from board situation recovering
The BladeThe first five of the 12 dogs the Toledo Area Humane Society helped rescue in April from a hoarding situation in southern Ohio have gone up for adoption. Millie, a 4-year-old Australian cattle dog mix, and Butch, a 2-year-old border collie mix, were...Tags: Punishment, Anxiety, Chicago Housing Authority, Humane Society of the United States, Dwayne Johnson
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