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Last Updated: March 22, 2020 - 12:36pm

HARRISBURG — Columbia County now has one confirmed case of the new coronavirus strain, while Montour County remains at one case as well.

Luzerne jumped from six to seven cases...

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Last Updated: March 21, 2020 - 12:36pm

DANVILLE — The state says that Montour County has a patient with the new coronavirus.

In numbers released at noon Saturday, Montour County had one of the 371 positive test results...

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Last Updated: March 19, 2020 - 5:55pm

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Last Updated: March 18, 2020 - 7:37pm

Courts at all levels are closing statewide starting Friday, except for a few urgent functions, as state Supreme Court declared a judicial emergency Wednesday night.

The closure...

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Last Updated: March 18, 2020 - 6:01pm

DANVILLE — The three patients “presumed positive” for the coronavirus that Geisinger health systems says it has treated were outside the area, according to the latest numbers the state...

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Last Updated: March 17, 2020 - 8:11pm

Geisinger confirmed Tuesday that its hospitals have had three patients with presumed positive results for the virus that causes COVID-19 , but details were scarce.

In a press...

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Last Updated: March 17, 2020 - 4:58pm

DANVILLE — Geisinger emergency doctor Doug Kupas predicts it’s only a matter of time until Columbia and Montour counties confirm their first cases of coronavirus.

“We should all...

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Last Updated: March 16, 2020 - 2:46pm

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf extended a shutdown order to the entire state of Pennsylvania in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus, he said Monday.

Wolf had...

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Last Updated: March 13, 2020 - 3:23pm

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf is ordering the closure of all schools in Pennsylvania for two weeks, as the state takes sweeping measures aimed at slowing the spread of the new...

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Last Updated: March 12, 2020 - 4:51pm

DANVILLE — A pipe bomb scare shut down busy Railroad Street near Dunkin Donuts for more than two hours Thursday after a small white plastic container was seen lying in a grassy lot...

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Last Updated: March 11, 2020 - 10:19pm

FISHING CREEK TWP. — A 61-year-old man badly injured his arms while while working on his farm Wednesday afternoon.

Randy Hack, 412 Paper Dale Road, Stillwater, was grinding corn...

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Last Updated: March 9, 2020 - 4:57pm

BLOOMSBURG — A sickly murder suspect awaiting trial on charges he shot his wife to death in their rural Benton home died Sunday night at Geisinger Medical Center, his lawyer and prison...

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Last Updated: March 7, 2020 - 10:04am

BLOOMSBURG — An SUV crashed into the back of the Bloomsburg Diner Saturday morning, but no one was hurt, and restaurant staff barely paused in serving up eggs and hash browns to the...

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Last Updated: March 6, 2020 - 8:53pm

DANVILLE – Despite rumors to the contrary, Geisinger Health System says it has not treated any patients with coronavirus. 

Governor Tom Wolf on Friday confirmed Pennsylvania’s...

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