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As job losses soar, Philadelphia homeowners risk foreclosure, but the city’s free housing assistance hotline can help them get mortgage relief.

With the coronavirus pandemic in full swing and a state shutdown in place, poets are turning to the internet to stay connected.

In Philadelphia, designers are responding to the coronavirus pandemic with new ideas — and urgent questions about engaging with community while public life is on hold.

Investigators slammed New Jersey for failing to curb rampant sexual abuse at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women.

The elderly are among the most susceptible to coronavirus. So why are long-term care centers admitting COVID-19-positive patients?

Many nursing home residents have conditions that make them especially vulnerable to coronavirus. They account for 24 of 43 deaths in the state so far.

The health system, which employs 8,000 workers, instructed leadership to choose which positions to temporarily cut.

The Department of State said 89,000 absentee ballot requests have already been processed, with the June 2 primary still seven weeks away.

Maybe it’s the shortage of toilet paper. Or maybe people don’t know so-called flushable wipes aren’t so sanitary when they create a ‘fatberg’ in the pipes.

“We have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely on, and we’re not there yet,” Fauci said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Two men are facing are variety of charges after they were caught with dozens of undersized Atlantic striped bass, state officials announced. 

More than 20 local immigrant justice organizations held a press conference today, calling on city and state officials to protect all Pennsylvania workers and residents.

The state Department of Health is not making hospital preparedness plans available or overseeing whether hospitals are following those plans.

The actual rate of coronavirus patients needing hospitalization has been about half of state projections.

While expressing some optimism that the curve is flattening, Murphy questioned how they could loosen any restrictions without greater testing capacity.