Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware have joined a regional purchasing consortium along with New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island to pool their market power in the procurement of personal protection equipment (masks, gowns, gloves, face shields), coronavirus tests, ventilators, and other medical equipment. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the partnership at a...

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Two teen girls were struck by a beach patrol vehicle while lying on the beach in Ship Bottom on Saturday, 5/2. It happened on the 26th Street Beach around 1p.m. The girls, 14 and 15, were airlifted to Jersey Shore Medical Center with lower body injuries, but have since been released to their families. 22-year-old John Purdon of Barnegat, NJ, was driving the vehicle at the time. He has been...

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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney released a revised budget for fiscal year 2021 in response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic on May 1, 2020. Businesses have been closed and workers have been off the job for weeks, reducing the city's tax revenue significantly. The Office of the Department of Finance projects that without any changes the city would have a $649 million deficit next year. The city...

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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced on Friday, May 1, that 24 counties in the northwestern and north-central regions of the state will begin to reopen next Friday, May 8. Those areas will move from the 'red' phase to the 'yellow' phase in Wolf's three-phase COVID-19 reopening plan. The 'yellow phase' lifts strict stay-at-home orders in favor of aggressive mitigation and retail stores...

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Love from Philly, a virtual music and arts festival, will take place this weekend Friday-Sunday, May 1-3, to support the broader Philadelphia entertainment community. The festival was "created to bring hope, inspiration, resources and love to Philly's entertainment and arts community in these difficult times." The lineup is made up entirely of Philadelphia-area musicians across many genres. Some...

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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney delivered a video address on Friday, 5/1, proposing an updated budget for 2021 in the wake of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. He delivered an initial budget and 5-year plan in front of City Council back in March. Both have been since been scrapped in the face of a looming deficit due to the shutdown of the economy and in turn a loss of revenue from business and...

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The Little League World Series has been canceled for the first time in almost 75 years due to coronavirus COVID-19. The annual youth baseball tournament is held in August in Williamsport, PA. It brings teams from all over the United States and the World to compete for the LLWS championship. Organizers acknowledge the fact that many teams in the US and the World are not able to play their regular...

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy met with President Donald Trump on Thursday morning, 4/20, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. Murphy went to discuss the needs of New Jersey as the state is still fighting the disease, but is also making plans to reopen. "The financial assistance we need and we need a significant amount, this is a big hit and this is somewhere in New...

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A South Jersey man has pled guilty to shooting his neighbor's therapy dog in the head with an air rifle last year in Burlington County. 64-year-old William Stroemel, aka Wild Willie, of Maple Shade pled guilty to possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and animal cruelty. He faces 5 years in prison when he is sentenced on July 29 as part of the plea deal. Toby, a Pomeranian-poodle...

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Philadelphia officials announced that it will begin to phase out the field hospital that was built inside the Liacouras Center as a coronavirus COVID-19 surge facility. There are only 5 patients currently at the facility. It will close as soon as those last patients are discharged, most likely by next week.

"With few patients, a stabilizing of the number of cases within the...

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