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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Jump City Jazz Orchestra Announces 2008 Summer Tour
Philadelphia's hottest big band, the Jump City Jazz Orchestra, announces it's 2008 summer tour.
The gray battleship USS New Jersey loomed above the schoolchildren as they craned their necks to see it on the Delaware River in Camden, N.J., its massive 106-ton gun barrels -- nine of them -- jutting in a ...
Del. 9 south of Port Penn to be closed for seven weeks
Bridge repairs will close Del. 9 south of Port Penn and Augustine Beach for several weeks beginning Monday, Delaware Department of Transportation officials announced Thursday.
Minner signs bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Delaware's most direct attempt yet to counter global warming was signed into law Monday afternoon, allowing the state to cap -- and eventually cut -- carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
Suspects Charged In Delaware Copper Thefts
Delaware State Police say three men are being charged with stealing about $9,000 in copper wire from a contractor working at a school near Delaware City, and from the school.
Man killed in crash near Delaware City
One person died when a sport utility vehicle crashed west of Delaware City late Monday.
Corps, Pa. announce deal on dredging
Pennsylvania and the Army Corps of Engineers agreed on Monday to pay for deepening the Delaware River's 102-mile main shipping channel, reigniting a decades-old debate over the project.
DELAWARE: 21-year-old man killed in SUV crash
One person was killed in the crash of a sport-utility vehicle west of Delaware City late Monday.
Driver Killed in Delaware City SUV Wreck
A one-vehicle accident on Cox Neck Road claims the life of a Delaware City man. 21-year-old Kyle Bowers was thrown from the SUV he was driving Monday at about 11 p.m. State Police say the vehicle drifted off ...
Delaware State Police said one person was killed in a one-car crash late Monday night.
Dairy barn destroyed by fire near Middletown
A dairy barn at Emerson Farm on Jamison Corner Road caught fire on Monday at 1:30 p.m., causing what the Delaware State Fire Marshall's Office estimates to be more than $1 million in damages.
Middletown Police Department's temporary officers hit the streets
Seasonal police officers for the Middletown Police Department graduated from a week-long training session in New Castle on May 19.
Fort Delaware to be featured on SciFi Channel's 'The Ghost Hunters'
Delaware State Parks and Crabby Dick's Restaurant invite the public to a special ghostly event from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. to watch SciFi Channel's "The Ghost Hunters" mid-season finale on Wednesday, June 18, in ...
Delaware Court Rejects Appeal in Lawsuit over Refinery Deaths
Delaware's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the owners of the Delaware City oil refinery in an insurance lawsuit involving the deaths of two workers.
Joblessness, oil prices renew fears of recession
The U.S. economy continued to stagger toward a recession Friday with a brutal one-two punch: the largest monthly jump in unemployment rates in 22 years and a record surge in oil prices.
Fort Delaware school hosts re-enactors By EDWARD L. KENNEY * The News Journal * June 8, 2008 They say an army travels on its stomach.
Deadline nears for Ward 2 applicants
For the past month, a seat on Delaware City Council has sat empty. But members of the community so far have shown little to no interest in filling it.
Carbon, energy bills move ahead in Senate
Two of the Minner administration's flagship environmental bills cleared a Senate panel Wednesday and moved toward a floor vote, despite objections from leading citizen groups.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. John Carney on Monday outlined his environmental priorities, ranging from creating programs to make developing land outside growth zones more costly to a plan to step ...
Delaware refinery likely exempt from pollution plan
Delaware's participation in the nation's first regional effort to control greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade system probably won't include one of the state's biggest polluters.