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Cheer For These 35 Pennsylvania Athletes Representing Team USA At Paris Olympics Cheer For These 35 Pennsylvania Athletes Representing Team USA At Paris Olympics
Cheer For These 35 Pennsylvania Athletes Representing Team USA At Paris Olympics We're days away from the Paris Olympics, and several of Pennsylvania fittest and most athletic residents will be there. A whopping 35 athletes from Pennsylvania have qualified for the Olympics and are ready to make their run at the gold when events kick off Friday, July 26. They are: David Abrahams, of Havertown: Para Swimming Justin Best, of Kennett Square: Rowing Kahleah Copper, of Philadelphia: Basketball Emma Deberdine, of Millersville: Field Hockey Brooke Debredine, of Millersville: Field Hockey Casey Eichfeld, of Drums: Canoe/Kayak Phia Gladieux, of Oley: Field Hockey Michael G…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
These Men Showed Up Hoping For Sex With Minors In Undercover OA Sting, Authorities Say These Men Showed Up Hoping For Sex With Minors In Undercover OA Sting, Authorities Say
These Men Showed Up Hoping For Sex With Minors In Undercover OA Sting, Authorities Say Authorities in Berks County have released mugshots of four of the eight men busted in an undercover operation for trying to have sex with children. The Berks County DA's Human Trafficking Task Force seeded advertisements across "websites commonly used for sex trade," offering "sexual relations with minors at a predetermined location in Berks County," prosecutors said in a release.  Throughout the course of the two days, eight individuals showed up to the rendezvous site and were arrested, DA John T. Adams said.  These suspects were arrested and charged with the followin…

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by Mac Bullock & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Officer Shoots Knife-Wielding Man In Berks County: DA Officer Shoots Knife-Wielding Man In Berks County: DA
Officer Shoots Knife-Wielding Man In Berks County: DA A knife-wielding man was shot by police Wednesday, March 30 in Berks County, authorities said. Brecknock Township police responded to a 911 call of a man suffering from a mental health crisis in Mohnton around 7:45 a.m., Chief County Detective Michael J. Gombar said. Officers found the unnamed 66-year-old man "holding a large knife" on Butlers Lane, they said. He didn't listen when an officer told him to drop the knife and lunged at them, police said. The officer then used a taser device to try to stop the man, but it didn't work, so they shot him, Gombar said. The bullet struck the…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Berks Man Already Charged With Homicide Stabs 2 Lehigh County Jail Corrections Officers Berks Man Already Charged With Homicide Stabs 2 Lehigh County Jail Corrections Officers
Berks Man Already Charged With Homicide Stabs 2 Lehigh County Jail Corrections Officers A 23-year-old Berks County man charged with homicide in relation to a shooting last August in Reading reportedly stabbed two corrections officers on March 9 at Lehigh County Jail in Allentown, according to LehighValleyLive. Mohnton native, Joewel Keita, who is now being housed in Berks County Prison, was charged Thursday with four counts of aggravated assault in the stabbing, according to court documents obtained by LehighValleyLive. Keita reportedly had a homemade knife but Lehigh County Jail staff members failed to find it in a search of his cell while Keita was on a recreation break the …

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by Nicole Acosta
News
WINNER: Pennsylvania Lottery Ticket Good For $100K Sold In Berks County WINNER: Pennsylvania Lottery Ticket Good For $100K Sold In Berks County
Winner: Pennsylvania Lottery Ticket Good For $100K Sold In Berks County A Pennsylvania lottery ticket good for $100,000 was sold in Berks County. The Powerball with Power Play ticket from the Wednesday, March 24 drawing was sold at Exxon Mart on East Wyomissing Avenue in Mohnton. The ticket matched four of the five white balls drawn: 4-9-17-27-38. The retailer will receive a $500 bonus for selling the winning ticket.

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by Nicole Acosta