EASTER

A 13-year-old boy who fell into a sewer pipe during a family Easter celebration at Los Angeles’ Griffith Park has been found alive after a methodical 12-hour search of the drainage system.

After a month in crisis mode, governors across the U.S. face their next challenge in the coronavirus pandemic: When and how to lift restrictions designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and return to something approaching normal life.

President Donald Trump is anxious to put the pandemic and its crippling economic crisis behind him ahead of the election in November, discussing with aides when social distancing can be rolled back. A team, expected to be formally announced as early as Tuesday, has begun meeting behind closed doors in the West Wing to tackle another matter paramount to the...

A Virginia pastor who told his congregants, “God is larger than this dreaded virus” died of COVID-19 the day before Easter, his church said. The New Deliverance Evangelistic Church, in North Chesterfield, Virginia, right outside Richmond, announced the death of Bishop Gerald O. Glenn in an Easter Sunday address by Bryan Nevers, a church elder. “The first thing I asked God is, ‘Why?’”...

The coronavirus death toll in the United States has surpassed 22,000 while the total number of cases was over 550,000 Monday morning, according to a tally from John’s Hopkins University.

Storms that killed more than 30 people in the Southeast, piling fresh misery atop a pandemic, spread across the eastern United States on Monday, leaving more than 1 million homes and businesses without power amid floods and mudslides. In Alabama, people seeking shelter from tornadoes huddled in community shelters, protective masks covering their faces to guard against the new coronavirus….

Severe storms swept Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama on Sunday, destroying houses and cars on a day where many families expected to celebrate Easter. Forecasters say the severe weather threat could last for several more days.

The coronavirus death toll in the U.S. has climbed to nearly 20,000 while the total number of cases surpassed 514,415, according to a tally from John’s Hopkins University.

Andrea Bocelli’s Easter concert on Sunday was a gorgeous moment for the world to come together and reflect on the trying times we are all experiencing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

While the coronavirus prevented family from gathering this Easter Sunday, it didn’t stop a half-dozen volunteers from making sure seniors living at the Gloucester Towne home in Gloucester City, New Jersey, had a special meal. NBC10’s Drew Smith reports.

Christians have celebrated Easter Sunday isolated in their homes by the coronavirus while pastors have preached about the belief of Christ’s resurrection to empty pews

For years, Jan and Ron Pinkos held a huge Easter egg hunt at their home in Roslyn, Pennsylvania. This year, the coronavirus dashed those plans, but the couple’s family wanted to cheer them up. So for an hour on Sunday, they drove by the couple’s home in a surprise parade.

Easter Sunday is the holiest day in the Christian faith, but churches across the Philadelphia region and around the world were empty because of the coronavirus pandemic. As NBC10’s Steven Fisher explains, many turned to digital services to celebrate with their congregations.

Pope Francis is calling for solidarity the world over to confront the “epochal challenge” posed by the coronavirus pandemic

Many churches have moved their Easter services online amid the coronavirus outbreak, but religious leaders say people’s faith remains strong. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez Valle reports.

Kids are having to forego the traditional Easter egg hunt, but a church in Chester County got creative and technological by hosting a virtual egg hunt.

It’s going to be an unusual Easter in the midst of a pandemic. But people in the Philadelphia area ventured out for food Saturday– many wearing masks and observing social distancing. NBC10’s Brandon Hudson reports.

The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 on Friday as the epidemic in the U.S. cut a widening swath through not just New York City but the entire three-state metropolitan area of 20 million people connected by a tangle of subways, trains and buses.

Holy Week in Philadelphia has never been quite like this year, NBC10’s Drew Smith reports.

Families are preparing for an Easter holiday like no other, without the closeness of family and friends. But there are signs of hope and renewal even in local hospitals. NBC10’s Wendy Saltzman reports.