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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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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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