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PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens confirmed reports early Tuesday that Danelo Cavalcante had escaped from the original search perimeter set up to catch him in Pocopson Township. Cavalcante was recorded on a private trail camera in Longwood Gardens twice within an hour Monday: Once heading north at 8:21 p.m. and again returning south at 9:33 p.m., Bivens said. It was likely that Cavalcante had lost his bearings, and backtracked to continue his trek southward. ”That pressure we put on him is working. We squeezed him hard enough in a period of a few days where he cou......

PHILADELPHIA – Doctors, nurses, and staff at private practices and clinics across Pennsylvania have been left guessing when they would get access to a COVID-19 vaccine, even as they regularly interact with patients infected with the coronavirus. Even physicians who are “on staff” with a hospital system — not on the facility’s payroll but able to access services and equipment for their patients — have largely been left out as those institutions have had free rein to determine which of their employees can have access to limited vaccine doses. “They just kind of started doing their people without......

The U.S. goal of getting initial COVID-19 vaccine doses to 20 million Americans by year’s end was looking like a long shot Tuesday. The Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed initially promised to unleash a vast stockpile of 300 million vaccine doses by January but later slashed its target and said it hoped to get about 40 million doses to recipients by the end of the year. But with just three days left in the year, the CDC reported Tuesday that only 11.45 million doses had been distributed since Dec. 13 with only about 2.1 million doses actually administered. “We certainly are not at the......

PHILADELPHIA – Since 2016, Mark Trainer has worked as a counselor for Crisis Text Line, a national nonprofit organization that provides a free mental health texting service for people in crisis. On any given day, he talks with texters about a "very wide swath of challenges," including struggles with school and relationships with their family or peers. But in March, the tone of those conversations shifted as the pandemic took hold across the country. Trainer, who is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, found himself talking to people who couldn't see their therapist due to social distancing measur......