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Pennsylvania reports 776 coronavirus cases, 28 deaths
Pennsylvania on Wednesday added 776 new coronavirus cases as well as 28 deaths to its totals. The cases bring the state’s total to 146,990 positive cases and 7,903 deaths, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The health department said that 173,390 tests were administered over the last...
Penn State adds more than 450 covid-19 cases since Friday, as in-person instruction continues
Penn State’s total number of covid-19 cases at University Park increased by 458 on Tuesday, boosting the total number of positives to 1,146. According to data from the university’s dashboard, 100 students tested positive between Friday and Monday while another 358 students tested positive from pending results that were updated...
State House votes to bar shutting down churches in disasters
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania House on Tuesday passed a bill that would prevent governors from applying their disease control powers to shut down gatherings at churches or other houses of worship. The chamber voted 149 to 53 for the proposal, which the Democratic leader called a solution in search of...
Gov. Wolf hits back after judge rules against virus restrictions
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf vowed he wouldn’t heed the “irresponsible demands” of President Donald Trump and Republicans in the state legislature concerning the state’s coronavirus response, hitting back hard Tuesday after a federal judge appointed by Trump ruled many of Wolf’s pandemic shutdown orders were unconstitutional. In unusually sharp language,...
Pennsylvania posts 1,151 new coronavirus cases, 6 more deaths
Pennsylvania reported 1,151 new coronavirus cases and six deaths on Tuesday. The new data brings the total cases to 146,214 and the total number of covid-19 deaths in Pennsylvania to 7,875. The state Department of Health said that 168,375 tests were administered the last seven days between Sept. 8-14 with...
Mailed ballots can’t be discarded over signature, Pa. officials tell counties
HARRISBURG — With concerns rising in Pennsylvania that tens of thousands of mail-in ballots will be discarded in the presidential election over technicalities, officials in the battleground state told counties that they aren’t allowed to reject a ballot solely because an election official believes a signature doesn’t match the signature...
Pa. warns jobless: Apply for $1,800 checks before money runs out
For some of Pennsylvania’s 616,000 jobless workers, an $1,800 lump-sum check for six weeks of unemployment may never be in the mail because the special unemployment aid could be used up before they get the money, state Labor department officials warned Monday. The likelihood the state will be unable to...
Top Pa. GOP lawmaker taps politically connected lobbyist to be chief of staff
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter. HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman has tapped a top lobbyist with a politically connected Harrisburg firm to...
Lancaster police shoot, kill knife-wielding man, setting off protestsVideo
LANCASTER — A police officer fatally shot a man with a knife after his sister said she called police to get him involuntarily committed, leading to street protests and vandalism in what the mayor of the small Pennsylvania city of Lancaster called a “heartbreaking day.” Police posted the officer’s body...
Pa. Health Secretary Levine urges college students to protect themselves from covid
Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine called on college students to follow the coronavirus safety guidelines recommended by their institutions and by health care professionals. The bulk of Levine’s message Monday was directed at people between the ages of 19 to 24, many of whom are college students, where...
Nearly $81M for eviction relief coming to Pennsylvania
Editor’s note: This story was updated to reflect that $81 million is coming to Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is set to receive nearly $81 million in federal funding aimed at eviction relief, according to officials with U.S. Sen. Bob Casey. Pittsburgh will get about $3 million, Allegheny County is set to receive...
Cal U, Edinboro, Clarion plot 3-way higher education partnership
California, Clarion and Edinboro universities — three state-owned schools that have suffered significant enrollment losses over the last decade — are forming a partnership they hope will create a powerhouse in the state’s public university system. In a joint announcement Monday, the presidents of the three universities said the partnership...
Federal judge rules Gov. Wolf’s shutdown orders were unconstitutional
A federal judge in Pittsburgh on Monday ruled that orders issued by Gov. Tom Wolf restricting the size of gatherings and closing nonessential businesses to protect against the spread of covid-19 were unconstitutional. In a statement, Wolf said his office will seek an immediate stay to halt the order and...
Pennsylvania posts 1,258 new coronavirus cases over past 2 days, 7 more deaths
The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced a two-day total of 1,258 new coronavirus cases Monday — with 638 coming on Sunday, 620 on Monday. This was the first weekend in which the state did not release a Sunday covid update, choosing instead to release both numbers on Monday. From Sept....
Couple beat, starved and imprisoned Pa. boy, 12, and let him die caked in his own feces, detectives say
A central Pennsylvania couple was behind bars Monday, charged with killing a 12-year-old boy by starving and beating him and keeping the child imprisoned in a feces-caked and darkened and locked room for years. The boy, Maxwell Schollenberger, never received medical care, wasn’t enrolled in school and was rarely seen...
Fatal police shooting of man in Lancaster sparks protest
LANCASTER — Crowds gathered to protest in a Pennsylvania city after a man was fatally shot by an officer who authorities say was responding to a domestic disturbance call. The shooting shortly after 4 p.m. in Lancaster killed 27-year-old Ricardo Munoz, the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office said in a...
From relief to despair, one Pa. family struggles with the ambiguity of federal eviction ban
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter. HARRISBURG — On Tuesday, Joseph Fallacaro exchanged anxious emails with his lawyer, trying to understand whether a new federal eviction...
Huge budget cuts could hurt people with mental illness, disabilities most, Pa. providers fear
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter. HARRISBURG — Eight years ago, as the state was still recovering from the fallout of a severe economic recession, lawmakers...
Peeps to halt holiday production until spring of 2021, company says
Peeps fans will have to wait another year before they can pick up pumpkin, snowman or heart-shaped treats at the holidays. The Bethlehem-based Just Born Quality Confections recently announced it won’t be producing Peeps for the Halloween, Christmas and Valentine’s Day so that preparations can be made for Easter of...
How to see the planet Uranus without a telescope
For the next few nights Uranus, one of the most distant planets in our solar system, will be visible to the naked eye. It will appear over the eastern horizon at 11:30 p.m. and then rise from about a third of the way up into the night sky gradually moving...
Pennsylvania reports 920 additional coronavirus cases, 25 new deaths
Pennsylvania on Saturday reported 920 additional coronavirus cases and 25 new deaths, according to the state Department of Health. York County added 129 positive cases of covid-19, the state said. In all, there have been 143,805 coronavirus cases recorded in the state. With the 25 additional deaths, the state’s death...
Pa. lawmakers take record before voters under new election rules
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania voters will soon issue their verdict on the legislature’s response to the covid-19 pandemic by either extending the gains Democrats made two years ago or further tightening Republicans’ longstanding grip on both chambers. The GOP-majority General Assembly has been in hybrid mode this year, after senators and...
No move to remote learning, as Penn State adds 272 covid cases since last update
A week after Penn State President Eric Barron said he would consider moving the university to remote learning, he announced Friday that such a move was not yet necessary. The announcement came on the heels of Friday’s updated COVID-19 dashboard, which showed 272 new cases of the coronavirus at University...
Pennsylvania reports 1,008 new coronavirus cases, 17 new deaths
Pennsylvania on Friday added 1,008 new cases of covid-19 to bring the state’s total to 142,885 cases. The new cases were part of a record-high number of daily test results reported: 30,855, according to the Department of Health. Pa. coronavirus by dayInfogram Daily case reports have exceeded 900 on five...
Gov. Wolf pledges $15M to bridge digital divide among Pennsylvania students
Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday committed $15 million in federal coronavirus aid money toward helping schools provide adequate, reliable broadband internet access to students who might otherwise struggle with remote learning. Wolf said the pandemic has forced schools to “rethink and rework how to provide instruction to students who are...
