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Wolf loosens restrictions in last of counties except Lebanon

HARRISBURG — Parts of Pennsylvania that were among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic will move next week into the less restrictive “green” zone for reopening businesses and restarting group activities, the Wolf administration announced Friday. The 12 counties going from yellow to green under Gov. Tom Wolf’s color-colored reopening system include Philadelphia and its heavily populated collar suburbs of Montgomery, Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties. Other counties moving to green next week will be Lehigh and Northampton in the Lehigh Valley; Erie County, where ...

Lycoming County no new COVID-19 cases

HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., June 20, that there are 504 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 81,266. All 67 counties in Pennsylvania have cases of COVID-19. Lycoming County has had 172 positive cases to ...

High layoffs persist, suggesting a slow economic rebound

WASHINGTON — Three months after the viral outbreak shut down businesses across the country, U.S. employers are still shedding jobs at a heavy rate, a trend that points to a slow and prolonged recovery from the recession. The number of laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits barely ...

Rep. Fred Keller’s listening tour seeks input on possible police reform

WELLSBORO — Standardized testing and community policing are needed to change police culture and end unnecessary violence, said law enforcement specialists at a roundtable discussion in the Tioga County courthouse. As part of a listening tour by U.S. Rep. Fred Keller, R-Kreamer, who said ...

State Supreme Court will hear lawsuit over shutdown dispute

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court on Wednesday granted the Democratic governor’s request and took over a lawsuit by legislative Republicans that could end his pandemic shutdown order. The Supreme Court announced it will decide the case filed by Senate Republicans, seeking to enforce a resolution that both chambers passed last week to end the state of disaster emergency imposed by Gov. Tom Wolf in March. The case had been filed in Commonwealth Court, where Republicans hold a majority of the seats, but Democrats have a 5-2 edge on the Supreme Court. Asked about the ...

State asks court to shut down Carlisle auto show

HARRISBURG (AP) — A large auto show in central Pennsylvania poses a risk to the public due to coronavirus concerns and should be shut down, the state Health Department argued in an emergency court filing made Wednesday. The agency told Commonwealth Court in a request for an injunction that ...