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Last Updated: March 27, 2020 - 7:33pm

MAHONING TWP. — Vandals tore up sports fields at the Hess Recreation Area here sometime late Thursday or early Friday, with what appears to be one truck and one car, police say.

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Last Updated: March 26, 2020 - 4:17pm

BERWICK — Berwick Hospital confirmed Thursday it has treated its first patient testing positive for the new coronavirus.

That infected patient was separated from non-infected...

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Last Updated: March 25, 2020 - 5:45pm

WILKES-BARRE -- A 70-year-old Luzerne County man is the area's first confirmed death from the new coronavirus strain. Officials said he recently traveled outside the country and had pre-...

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Last Updated: March 24, 2020 - 1:40pm

HARRISBURG — The most recent numbers from the Department of Health show an increase in confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in Luzerne County, as well as new cases in Montour County....

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Last Updated: March 23, 2020 - 3:07pm

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday ordered residents of Pennsylvania's hardest-hit areas to stay home for at least two weeks to help combat the spread of the new coronavirus...

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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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