READING, Pa. – Smoke filled the sky and flames ripped through several homes on the 1300 block of Perkiomen Avenue in Reading Thursday night, leading to a fast and intense response from firefighters.
ON AN OCTOBER night in 1989, a 4-year-old girl was shocked awake by a phone ringing and then a scream. She crept out of her bedroom and tiptoed barefoot along the hallway’s clammy vinyl tile, ...