Ellendale News

The two candidates seeking the Senate seat of the late Thurman Adams will meet tonight in their first public forum.

A daughter of Thurman Adams wants to run for her late father's state senate seat.

Democrats and Republicans have moved quickly to nominate candidates to fill the vacancy created by the death June 23 of conservative Democrat Sen.

Georgetown - Crime scene investigators enthusiastically combed the area for evidence at the scene where a human skull and sneakers were discovered partially buried in the ground.

HARRINGTON -- Robert Kevin Russell Jr., 29, of Harrington died Thursday, June 25, 2009, at Bay Health Medical Center at Milford Memorial Hospital in Milford.

The Delmarva Clergy United in Social Action Foundation has won the stimulus grant money to employ youths from the ages of 14 to 24 in Sussex County, so the foundation will host the Summer Youth Working Program Job Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, June 20, 13726 South Old State Road, Ellendale.

LINCOLN , Del.- An investigation is underway after firefighters located a body in the rear bedroom of a Lincoln mobile home that caught on fire Saturday night.

R, Smokey Bear congratulates Delaware Forest Service Educator Ashley Ward as she receives the National Bronze Smokey Award from the U.S. Forest Service's Larry Mastic for her successful efforts in overseeing Delaware's annual Smokey Bear Education Program, which reaches almost 75 percent of the first-grade children in Delaware's private and public ...

Arson caused the fire that caused $650,000 damage to three homes in Heritage Creek Friday, April 24.

On Friday April 24 at 03:49 hours Station 85 , Station 77 , Station 75 , and Medic 108 were dispatched to a structure fire on Harbeson Road in the area of the Mariner Middle School.

Homebuilder Schell Brothers held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon Wednesday for the new Heritage Creek development, just outside Milton.

Seven downstate fire companies battled three house fires in a new development in the Milton area early today, said an official with the Sussex County fire board.

Two Monday evening fires in new construction homes in the Milton area were most likely set by arsonists, Milton Fire Department Inc.

The Hampton Inn under construction at the north edge of Milford caught fire at about 5:30 this morning, fire police said, and was still burning more than three hours later as fire companies from across Delmarva try to combat the three-alarm blaze.

ASSAULT SUSPECT SOUGHT: State police are looking for a 33-year-old Laurel man after he allegedly forced his way into a home and assaulted a man because the suspect's ex-girlfriend and his children were staying there.

ELLENDALE - The Delaware State Police are seeking the assistance of the public in locating a 33-year-old Laurel man who is wanted in connection to an assault.

Rarely does life come with a second act. The old Phil-Moor cottages of Rehoboth Beach are getting a second life, this time 20 miles up the road in Ellendale.

Over the last three months, Delaware did more -- far more than had been hoped. Schoolchildren in Selbyville, state employees in Dover, autoworkers in Newark all stepped up.

An Ellendale man will be charged with vehicular homicide and drunken driving in an accident early Saturday that caused a woman's death, police said.

Ellendale - Delaware State Police are investigating a fatal crash on South Union Church Road at about 4:17 a.m. this morning.