Delaware City News

The flag of the USS Cole, bombed by terrorists in 2000, will have a permanent home in a Delaware museum.

While everyone is focused on the health-care bill coming out of Congress, there's a huge cap-and-trade freight train barreling down the tracks.

Police Chief Russ Martin, Lorrie Diaz and Mayor Windell Wheeler stand with Sgt. Ramon Diaz after Diaz was honored by city council.

The Reedy Point Players are attempting an ambitious presentation of "Dracula" at the Delaware City Community Center.

In a head-on attack against Delaware's right to control dredging of the Delaware River, the Army Corps of Engineers this weekend declared it will start a controversial deepening of the shipping channel without a state permit.

The top three vote-getters out of seven candidates on Nov. 3 will win the three at-large seats up for re-election on Delaware City Council.

The Coast Guard and local agencies rescued two people aboard a 33-foot boat in the Delaware River after they struck a submerged object in the vicinity of Pea Patch Island near Delaware City Thursday.

Despite persistently low demand, prices for gasoline have spiked over the past week along with crude oil, threatening one of the very few points of relief for the recession-striken U.S. consumer: Cheap gas.

Many people filling up cars for the week on Monday are getting a big surprise: gasoline prices have been climbing rapidly.

On a cold and gusty morning, 2,500 walkers and runners gathered at Rodney Square to support the fight against breast cancer.

A hint of soggy frustration surfaced Saturday as Lewes Mayor James L. Ford III tallied up flooding troubles in his city after a stubborn coastal storm blustered across the state and region for a third straight day.

ONLY ON ABC 6 / FOX 28: A Marion County deputy who took his own life has spawned a major investigation.

At a recent meeting of the Delaware City Schools board, Mark Butler characterized my column for the Hayes High School newspaper, "You're not a thug; you live in Delaware," as having racial overtones and that it "unfairly targeted black students" .

On Thursday, Oct. 15, the League of Women Voters and six co-sponsors will present the annual Candidates and Issues Night at the Delaware Area Career Center -- North auditorium, 1610 state Route 521, with informal conversation and refreshments at 6:30 p.m., and call to order at 7 p.m. We encourage you to come early to visit with the candidates, as ...

Former Marion County Sheriff's Deputy Joe Russell, once officer of the year and a guy who always made his co-workers smile, committed suicide last week.

A 25-year-old woman killed Monday when she was struck by a train in Newark was an artist and graphic designer, remembered by friends for her talent and sunny personality.

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.

Newark police say a woman was struck and killed by a CSX freight train while she was walking along the tracks.

Judy Dunsmore got a new cell phone Thursday. That might not seem like much, but to Dunsmore and 24 other Delawareans with disabilities or physical limitations who use DART's Paratransit service, it is a big deal.

Port Penn residents of the late 1700s hoped -- in vain -- to rival Philadelphia for shipping, but the community about four miles south of Delaware City endures as a marshland village.