Virus-related business closures have delivered a gut-punch to the nation’s economy, with jobless claims skyrocketing in the past two weeks. The bill passed Friday by Congress is by most accounts bolder even than the measures lawmakers took in the wake of the 2008 financial crash. 

Jacksonville locals have responded to a shortage of medical-grade masks in the health care community by sewing and delivering masks to give nurses, doctors and others an extra layer of protection. 

Camaron Harry of Durban, South Africa, is one of dozens of JSU international students waiting out the global COVID-19 pandemic in Jacksonville, thousands of miles from home.

Alabama recorded two new deaths Friday from COVID-19, and the state’s number of known cases surpassed 600 as the world grappled with the new coronavirus and the economically crippling effects of attempts to stop its spread.

Down in Alpine, Debbie Wade read the news, and it was ruthlessly bleak. The darkness was unabated: the spread of the novel coronavirus, the sickness, the deaths, the fear, the unknown. But there was one thing she could do. So she started sewing.