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A Cape May County freeholder is urging second homeowners to remain in their primary homes to prevent overburdening supermarkets and services. 

Parents across the Philadelphia region who've been ordered to work from home now have to be employees and caregivers, so they’re getting creative.

Schools across Delaware are providing lunch and breakfast five days a week until further notice. Wilmington is giving out meals at community centers.

Bars and state stores are closed, but you’ve still got options.

Get rid of coronavirus using local lather.

Small business owners adapt as Philly mayor orders bars and restaurants to close, and Gov. Wolf expands his mandate statewide.

Pennsylvania will shut down all of its roughly 600 state-owned wine and liquor stores as part of the state's expanding shutdown to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.

Not all suppliers intend to close. One shop owner said: “I’m an essential business. I’m firearms. That’s essential. It’s second amendment rights.”

In light of the coronavirus outbreak, the University of Pennsylvania has announced that the Penn Relays, scheduled for April 23 through 25, has been cancelled.

The goal is stopping the spread while still giving folks their caffeine fix.

This week: Helen Gym talks housing protections in a pandemic, WHYY reporters talk coronavirus in the city, and the state of the 76ers amidst the chaos.

Canceled events and empty rooms bring work to a hard stop at hotels and arenas. But a sudden demand for extra cleaning means long days elsewhere.

The U.S. Coast Guard came to the rescue of a man who fell ill on a cruise ship off en route to New Jersey Friday afternoon.

Melissa Hall, who has a weakened immune system, ventured out for the first time in a week on Friday and donned a surgical mask to go grocery shopping.

Also, two-hour parking is now free for market shoppers at 11th & Arch.