HARRISBURG — An order requiring masks inside Pennsylvania’s K-12 schools and child care facilities will remain in place while the state Supreme Court considers the governor’s appeal of a lawsuit that overturned the mandate, the high court ruled Tuesday. The justices in a 5-1 decision ...

As much as Thomas McInroy, Bellwood-Antis superintendent, doesn’t like masking being an on-again, off-again issue, he believes that masks should stay on until the state Supreme Court makes a definitive decision on the Wolf administration’s mask mandate. The state’s top court Tuesday ...

Again this week, the COVID-19 transmission rate remained high in all six local counties, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose statistics were last updated Wednesday. Among the local counties, Blair had the highest number of new cases, the highest incidence rate ...

Susan Goodell needed help. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Goodell, CEO of the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank, would look out the window at the long line of clients picking up the food available that day, while she and others answered calls from others who couldn’t travel ...

Back in the spring, Pauline Criel and her cousins talked about reuniting for Thanksgiving at her home near Detroit after many painful months of seclusion because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the virus had a different plan. Michigan is now the nation’s hot spot. Hospitals there are teeming ...

ROARING SPRING — Durbin Dixon paid an emotional tribute to his late wife, Joann, during a luminary service held in remembrance of local COVID-19 victims at Conemaugh Nason Medical Center Tuesday afternoon. Joann, 78, died late last year from COVID-19. She and Durbin were married for 54 ...