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U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean talks to Jennifer Lynn about the passing of her mother in law from COVID-19, how Pa. should reopen, and the need for tests.

Pennsylvania and New Jersey both ranked in the top five states that saw anti-Semitic incidents in 2019.

Educators begin to come to terms with how the health crisis has utterly altered college life in New Jersey, its finances and its outlook: part one.

The federal government sent its first shipment of 1,200 doses of investigational antiviral drug remdesivir to the Pennsylvania Health Department on Tuesday.

“We’re all doing the best we can in the new normal here,” said Kevin Gombotz, vice president of Envinity, a green design and construction company.

“It wasn’t about getting masks out to the public. It was about saving his company and making as much money as possible."

The state also committed to testing all residents and staff at some 670 nursing homes over the next two weeks.

An AP review of more than 6,000 pages of 2019 spending line items found lawmakers often use the latitude their own rules provide to decide what to buy and from whom.

Mayor Jim Kenney is tapping $10 million in federal relief funds to help Philadelphia renters who have lost income because of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Gov. John Carney says contract tracing in conjunction with expanded testing initiative will pave the way to reopening the state’s economy.

A surge of evictions is expected this summer when city courts reopen and a proposed budget cut threatens to worsen the crisis, writes a retired Philadelphia judge.

Here are some highlights of how the Pennsylvania General Assembly spent taxpayer money on its own operations during the fiscal year that ended June 30.

Dr. Anthony Fauci warned on Tuesday that “the consequences could be really serious” if cities and states reopen the U.S. economy too quickly.

Atlantic City's local government, which has been plagued by corruption dating back 100 years, could get a big change this week.

Fauci’s testimony comes as President Trump is praising states that are reopening after the prolonged lock-down aimed at controlling the virus' spread.