Laurel News

LAUREL -- Mildred 'Mimi' Boyce, of Laurel passed away Saturday, July 19, 2008, at The Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore.

Laurel Police are looking into reports of shots fired early Friday morning. Police responded to West Eighth Street and found shell casings in the road and yard.

A 29-year-old Selbyville man was critically injured after he was bitten by a state police dog that helped apprehend him following a convenience store robbery east of Millsboro.

The burning of a vacant home on Old Stage Road this week marked the ninth arson in a two-month spree in the Laurel-Delmar area, yet the culprit is still at large.

The Laurel School District and the sports complex action committee will host a town forum to discus the proposed track/football complex project next Tuesday evening, July 22, at 7 pm., at the Depot ...

The three Democratic members of Sussex County Council are to gather this week for a private discussion that could help each of them decide whether to seek re-election this year.

Putting technology into the hands of teachers and students is a given as schools are required to ensure that all students are technologically literate, but in times of fiscal cuts, finding funding for that ...

Roger Martin retired from Middletown High School in 1996 after spending 23 years as a teacher.

Trying to define the heart and soul of Sussex County is like trying to get your arms around a wet, 50-pound watermelon at the Laurel Farmers' Auction Market.

The Hardscrabble area is one of those Sussex crossroads that people only refer to when they bring up odd area names.

The Sussex County Department of Community Development & Housing will host a free foreclosure prevention seminar from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at Laurel Town Hall, 201 Mechanic St.

Sussex County Council approved a plan Tuesday to protect underground drinking water supplies from contamination that can come from activities like development.

Sussex County's Comprehensive Land Use Plan, in the works for more than a year, was adopted Tuesday despite strong opposition from Republican County Council members.

LAUREL -- Glen Hubbard, 54, of Laurel passed away Thursday, June 19, 2008, at Christiana Hospital in Newark.

The names carved into the limestone blocks are faded and moss-covered. It's been more than 150 years since the bodies beneath were placed underground.

Tipoffs led to the arrest of two Sussex County residents Wednesday on drug possession charges.

Sussex County officials say most of the calls came from an area from Laurel to Bethany Beach, almost 50 over-all. The wildfires are about 200 miles away, having originated in southeastern Virginia and eastern ...

The storm didn't bother to knock at Clint and Blair Lutz's front door Wednesday.

Two people are in the hospital with serious injuries following a three-car crash Wednesday on alternate Route 13, south of Allen Mills Road, Delaware State Police said.

Sussex County officials have OK'd a $103 million expansion of their coastal sewage treatment system, turning down a plan that would have piped treated sewage miles out into the Atlantic.