Hockessin News

Most guitar teachers and ace-level players will tell you two things about the video games Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

Backyard chickens are still illegal in New Castle County -- for now. County Council voted 10-3 on Tuesday against a law that would allow keeping as many as six chickens on residential lots of a half-acre to one acre.

For the Delaware Community Foundation, the season focuses attention on what others need -- now more than ever By GARY SOULSMAN * The News Journal * November 26, 2009 Sometime during this Thanksgiving weekend, Barbara and William Wade will gather around a speakerphone with their daughter, Erin.

For Laura Robelen, it's about the details. It took her four hours to perfect one of the four trees she decorated for the Delaware Hospice Festival of Trees.

HOCKESSIN, Del. - November 22, 2009 -- New Castle County Police are investigating an accident that has seriously injured two teenagers.

A 38-year-old man could face the death penalty after a Delaware jury convicted him of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in a jealous rage.

Political newcomer Fred Cullis is the first Republican candidate to announce a run for the statea s lone House of Representatives seat.

Fred Cullis, a Hockessin sales representative, said Tuesday he is running for the U.S. House of Representatives seat held for the past nine terms by Republican Mike Castle.

Perennial candidate Mike Protack, who lost a second bid for governor last year, is back for another electoral try, but is setting his sights a little lower this time.

Delaware households and businesses face a big surprise at their wastebaskets next year: a 50 percent landfill fee hike.

Shrimp, scallops and lobster from Baywood Clubhouse Restaurant. Welcome to Home Skillet, where we're already thinking about Christmas cookies.

A Football Feast will be held Nov. 1 at the Hockessin Police Athletic League to raise money for the Aubrey Spicer Trust Fund.

It takes eight adults joining hands to encircle the big white oak in Lynn Robinson's Hockessin yard.

In honor of Make A Difference Day, about 100 parents, teachers, students and community members volunteered Saturday to spruce up Elbert-Palmer Elementary School in Wilmington.

At what age should a parent begin reading a nightly bedtime story to a young child? As soon as the parent brings him or her home from the hospital, says storyteller Terry Colonna of Hockessin.

It wasn't even thought of as a local one. Basically, a few guys gathered in the woods to drink and launch pumpkins off of flatbed trucks with contraptions made from tree branches, for no other reason than to watch the fruit fly.

Warm up to six of these pumpkin-inspired sips and savories at local spots. or bowl at the restaurant, but it's also available to-go by the pint and quart .

Three undocumented workers from Pennsylvania were arrested early Sunday when troopers found them parked in a lot in Hockessin with drugs in the car.

Two men who were spotted wearing gloves while running through the woods near a Pike Creek home burglarized last week have been linked to other residential break-ins in the Centreville area, New Castle County police said.

A tale involving obsession, infidelity and drug use ended in Tweed's Park near Hockessin in 2006 with the bodies of a mother and her new boyfriend found inside the family mini-van burned almost beyond recognition, according to prosecutors.