Claymont News

As emergency personnel raced Saturday to the scene of the latest shooting in Wilmington, they found the victim sitting on a row-house stoop.

State Police are investigating a robbery attempt during which a shot was fired at a motel employee in Claymont.

Given that their childhood was lived through the confluence of catastrophic world events, it seemed fitting that the first thing the Claymont High School Class of 1949 remembered about their kindergarten classroom at the Stone School in Claymont -- where close to 25 graduates of that class recently gathered in celebration of their 60th reunion -- ...

Delaware officials on Friday released the names of schools where free swine flu vaccinations will be distributed next week.

CLAYMONT, Del. - October 28, 2009 -- Delaware State Police are seeking the identity of a man wanted for prescription fraud.

DOVER -- Reaching her job in Brandywine Hundred takes Melinda Brooks almost an hour and a half and two buses.

The Department of Natural Resources has ordered former owners of a closed Claymont business to pay about $450,000 in fines and to fund clean-up costs associated with cleaning up a spill in the late 1980s.

A former Claymont fuel and tire business faces more than $1.2 million in fines, cleanup bills and related costs for a decades-old spill that remains a headache for some residents along Hillside Road near Philadelphia Pike.

Poloce say, 22-year-old Kirk Johnson was arrested Saturday for multiple drug charges.

A 72-year-old Claymont man died Saturday morning after his car crashed into a parked vehicle, state police said.

Wilmington,DEL,USA - Delaware on Line/The News Journal, by MIKE CHALMERS -October 14, 2009: ... More commuters have joined Brooks lately as high gas prices, expanded service and a desire to trim personal expenses prompted a small spike in people taking a bus or train to work in 2008, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau show.

Two former U.S. Marines from California have been charged with four burglaries in northern Delaware and marijuana offenses, New Castle County police said Friday.

A 20-year-old Claymont man, wanted in a shooting incident last month, was shot and killed inside his residence Thursday morning after he pulled a gun on SWAT officers from New Castle County police who were trying to serve a warrant for his arrest, police said.

New Castle County Police say members of the SWAT team fatally shot a 20-year-old Claymont man who pointed a handgun at officers.

A man who was set to go to trial for first-degree murder next month for fatally beating a man in 2007 to steal his methadone, was allowed to plead guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and a weapons charge.

Police are looking for a Philadelphia man they say took a bite out of his ex-girlfriend's lip after breaking into her Delaware home.

Police are looking for a Philadelphia man they say took a bite out of his ex-girlfriend's lip after breaking into her Delaware home.

WILMINGTON , Del.- Delaware State Police have arrested a 39-year-old Claymont man they say was involved in 12 burglaries since May.

The State Fire Marshal's Office announces arrests in two recent cases of arson. 47-year-old Sunny Liang is charged with setting a fire at Brandywine Country Club on Shipley Road on September 18th.

A man was arrested for breaking into the same Italian eatery in Claymont eight times in five months, police said.