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Nursing home testing a massive challenge for Pennsylvania

By MARC LEVY and MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

Bridget Kreider, right, helps her three-year-old daughter Maggie pull on her protective face covering before entering a store, Wednesday, May 20, 2020, in Harmony, Pa. Customers entering stores are required to wear face coverings to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus during the COVID-19 pandemic under the state yellow phase reopening guide. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Pennsylvania drafting guidelines to pave return of sports

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Brad Shepler, a barber who resumed cutting hair despite it being prohibited under Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's coronavirus shutdown orders, is overcome with emotion while listening to local state lawmakers defend him at a news conference in front of his barber shop, Thursday, May 14, 2020 in Enola, Pa. Shepler also received a warning letter from the state's licensing agency. Comforting him is state Sen. Doug Mastriano. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Wolf to ease restrictions elsewhere, but still has concerns

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press

Authorities: Man threatened governor over business closures

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A person wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks by a closed storefront in Lebanon, Pa., Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Nursing home crisis doesn’t deter a county from mutiny

By MARC LEVY and MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks with members of the media at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Tom Wolf threatens to cut funding for ‘cowardly’ Pennsylvania counties going rogue

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Students expected to return to school in fall, ed chief says

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks with members of the media at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Wolf: ‘Cowardly’ counties ‘choosing to desert’ virus fight

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFORO - Associated Press

In this May 5, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump talks to the media before boarding Air Force One for a trip to Phoenix to visit a Honeywell plant that manufactures protective equipment, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump supports Pennsylvania counties in ‘mutiny’ against Democratic governor’s closure orders

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Commonwealth Health workers applaud and cheer honoring first responders from local fire companies, local and state police officers, and other community minded organizations during a parade, Thursday May 7, 2020, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., honoring our Commonwealth Health General Hospital, Geisinger South, Geisinger Wyoming Valley and the Veterans Administration Medical Center's front line workers. (Mark Moran/The Citizens' Voice via AP)

Western Pennsylvania to escape lockdown amid growing anger

By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY and MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

Customers get checked out from the garden center at a Lowe's store in Harrisburg, Pa., Wednesday, May 6, 2020. As swaths of Pennsylvania prepare for a limited reopening Friday, some fed-up business owners are jumping the gun and have resumed serving customers in defiance of Gov. Tom Wolf’s shutdown order. (AP Photo/Mark Scolforo)

Businesses open in defiance of Pennsylvania shutdown

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

Stella Melocchi, 6, of leans on her mother, Sara Melocchi, while Sara draws a heart with chalk during the Chalk the Block event Tuesday, May 5, 2020, at Kiwanis Park in Shaler Township near Millvale, Pa. During the event, families were able to sign up for a one hour time slot to fill a parking spot with chalk while social distancing from others, during the coronavirus pandemic. (Emily Matthews/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

New cases below 1,000 for 4th straight day in Pennsylvania

By MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFORO - Associated Press

A pedestrian passes newly installed posters on a shuttered businesses in Philadelphia, Monday, May 4, 2020. The Center City District and Mural Arts Philadelphia posted the original works on multiple locations in an effort to enhance the neighborhood awash with business shuttered to help curb the spread of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pennsylvania tops 3,000 virus deaths as data are reconciled

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFORO - Associated Press

Mark Ott poses for a photo at Cleveland Ott &amp; Sons farm which supply garden centers and farm stands in Graterford, Pa., Monday, April 27, 2020. With outdoor planting season in full swing for much of Pennsylvania, many garden centers and the farms that supply their vegetable seedlings and flowers are buckling under the pain of Gov. Tom Wolf's orders to tens of thousands of businesses to shut down to contain the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pennsylvanians get governor’s OK to resume golfing, boating

By MARK SCOLFORO and MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

Empty tables for garden plants are under the framework for a greenhouse, Friday, April 24, 2020, in Cranberry Township. Some garden centers remain shuttered under Wolf's statewide March 19 order for &quot;non-life-sustaining&quot; businesses to close. Nurseries and greenhouses are allowed to remain open and selling, while garden center owners complain that big-box stores, farming supply stores or competitors that sell farm supplies, building materials or other qualifying goods can stay open and sell gardening supplies. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Garden centers, growers struggle in planting-season shutdown

By MARC LEVY and MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

People practice social distancing while waiting in a line to enter a Wegmans grocery store in Dickson City, Pa., Thursday, April 23, 2020. (Christopher Dolan/The Times-Tribune via AP)

Geography and population complicate Pennsylvania’s reopening

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

A person wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks past a shuttered business in Philadelphia, Thursday, April 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pennsylvania slashes virus death toll; reopening explained

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY - Associated Press

Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania speaks at a new conference at Pennsylvania Emergency Management Headquarters where he said he was ordering schools and other facilities to close in a suburban Philadelphia county, Montgomery County, that has been hard-hit by the COVID-19, Thursday, March 12, 2020 in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Swing-state Republicans pin coronavirus economy woes on Democratic governors

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2020, file photo protesters demonstrate at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., demanding that Gov. Tom Wolf reopen Pennsylvania's economy even as new social-distancing mandates took effect at stores and other commercial buildings. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Swing-state Republicans pin virus fallout on Democrats

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press

Robert Jones puts together an order of diapers and food to be picked up curbside by a family in need in Philadelphia, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The Nutritional Development Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia partnerd with The City of Philadelphia to distribute the diapers which were provided by the Greater Philadelphia Diaper Bank and Mitzvah Circle. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

As deaths spike, some areas could see ‘robust’ reopening

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY - Associated Press