Bear News Archives

Delaware State Police are investigating vandalism to fiber optic and power lines that disabled traffic signals near Bear.

A 17-year-old girl was wounded Wednesday during an attempted robbery as she tried to buy drugs in Bear, police said.

Common sense apparently prevailed in the case of a first grader who was facing a stretch in reform school after bringing a folding knife and fork to school.

It happened on Friday at the Wachovia Bank in the Governors Square Shopping Center.

BEAR , Del.- Delaware State Police say nobody was hurt Tuesday morning after a woman disregarded a railroad crossing and drove her SUV into the path of a moving train, resulting in a collision.

A 31-year-old Bear man was arrested early Friday after he assaulted his girlfriend, biting her ear and hitting her with a wooden chair in front of her two children, police said.

The Christina School Board in Bear, Del., finally has bowed to common sense - but only after protests from the public and national publicity forced it to do so.

Six-year-old Zachary Christie went back to class Wednesday with a smile bigger than his backpack.

There was once a time when all American teenagers were required to throw tires off of bridges onto oncoming traffic, shoot each other in the eyes with BB guns and glory in the slaughter of make-believe "redskins." Obviously, in many ways, we're in a better place now as a nation.

BEAR, Del. a ' A Delaware first-grader who had faced a lengthy punishment for bringing his favorite utensil to school a ' a combination folding knife, fork and spoon a ' has gotten a reprieve.

BEAR, Del. - A Delaware first-grader who faced a lengthy punishment for taking his favorite camping utensil to school _ a combination folding knife, fork and spoon _ got a reprieve Tuesday night when the school board made a hasty change to its strict code of conduct.

A freight train hit an SUV at a crossing in Delaware today, but the motorist escaped injury as her vehicle spun around on impact and hit the car behind her, police said.

12, 2009----Making the leap from third place in 2008, Raymond Williams of Bear, Del., took top prize in the 2009 Coast Day Crab Cake Cook-Off. The contest took place at the University of Delaware's Coast Day, held Sunday, Oct.

On the night that he allegedly ran over and fatally injured firefighter Michelle Smith, paraplegic Joseph Taye had been at a strip club, likely drinking, according to opening statements by prosecutors.

A New Castle County man is charged with indecent exposure after police say a neighbor taped him exposing himself through his sliding door.

October 4, 2009 -- New Castle County Police have arrested Samuel J. Riley, a resident of the ChristianaVillage Apartments in Bear, Delaware.

In January, Kenneth E. Fowler Jr. will mark 40 years as a member of the Delaware Army National Guard and he says he's seen enough.

OCEAN CITY - Police said three people were shocked and scared when a man approached them and threatened them with a knife if they did not provide him with cocaine.