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Last Updated: April 14, 2020 - 4:32pm

DANVILLE — Geisinger is rolling out a new program this week aimed at tracing coronavirus patients and their close contacts in an effort to slow the spread of the highly contagious and...

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Last Updated: April 13, 2020 - 4:27pm

The rise in confirmed coronavirus cases in the region, which had slowed late last week, again picked up over the weekend, with new state totals from the state showing 32 new cases in...

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Last Updated: April 9, 2020 - 11:07am

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania schools will remain shuttered for the rest of the academic year because of the...

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Last Updated: April 8, 2020 - 4:19pm

Increases in area coronavirus cases slowed Wednesday, and numbers for Montour County actually decreased for the second straight day, according to the state Health Department.

But...

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Last Updated: April 8, 2020 - 11:52am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders, who saw his once strong lead in the Democratic primary evaporate as the party’s...

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Last Updated: April 7, 2020 - 7:37pm

HARRISBURG — In a surprise move, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission opened trout fishing across the state Tuesday morning, more than a week ahead of the expected opening date....

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Last Updated: April 6, 2020 - 8:23pm

CENTRALIA — On Monday, crews from Fox Coal Co. began dumping the first of 400 loads of earth to cover over Graffiti Highway. Here's what that looked like, from the ground and the air....

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Last Updated: April 7, 2020 - 3:01pm

CENTRALIA — On Monday, crews from Fox Coal Co. began dumping the first of 400 loads of earth to cover over Graffiti Highway. Here's what that looked like, from the ground and the air....

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Last Updated: April 6, 2020 - 1:31pm

CENTRALIA — Workers say that 400 loads of dirt, dumped over the next three days will cover over the Graffiti Highway — a closed section of Route 61 that has become a tourist destination...

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Last Updated: April 3, 2020 - 5:25pm

BERWICK — An employee at the Wise Foods plant here has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus, the company told workers in a letter Thursday.

Meanwhile, the head of the union...

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Last Updated: April 1, 2020 - 1:40pm

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday placed all of Pennsylvania under an order to stay at home, dramatically...

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Last Updated: March 31, 2020 - 4:52pm

HARRISBURG — Luzerne County reported a fourth COVID-19-related death in numbers released by the Department of Health on Tuesday, as the number of positive tests in the county increased...

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Last Updated: March 30, 2020 - 12:24pm

The number of reported cases of the new coronavirus in the region spiked in Monday’s state report.

Montour County, home to Danville’s Geisinger Medical Center, reported 10 county...

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Last Updated: March 27, 2020 - 7:11pm

Luzerne County on Friday was added to the list of Pennsylvania counties under Gov. Tom Wolf’s “stay at home” order after the county recorded its second coronavirus death in three days,...

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