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Hours before the midnight screening of this summer's most anticipated film, Batman fans in Delaware started showing up to grab prime seats.

Police say 18 motorists were arrested at a drunken driving checkpoint over the weekend.

There are so many great things people wanted to say about Robert Shum. To his wife of 40 years, Patricia, he was the most special guy she had ever known, one who loved nothing more than being with his family.

A 76-year-old man, who had just gotten out of his car and was making his way to Sunday Mass, was killed when a car ran him over near Newport.

He drove his car into a restaurant in Newport, Delaware this morning. The car hit the front of the King Garden chinese restaurant in the Newport Shopping Plaza.

By EDWARD L. KENNEY * The News Journal * June 1, 2008 It turns out that the world really is flat, after all -- at least it is for most technical drafting students who design their drawings in the ...

New Castle County residents are invited to join County Council members for a Walk in the Park program, a series of town hall-style discussions while strolling in a neighborhood park. via News Journal

SALVAGE YARD OWNER CHARGED: An owner of a towing and salvage yard has been charged with receiving stolen property. via News Journal

“At this point, they cannot rehabilitate it”

Part of the roof of a two-story brick building near the Riverfront that is slated for demolition collapsed Wednesday afternoon. via News Journal

“Come on, 13 is already congested”

State highway workers are closing most of I-95 and all of 495 through much of the weekend in Newport, Delaware. via WPVI-TV Philadelphia

“These costs are an integral part of [former Gov. Tom Carper's] real-time crime reporting initiative, which provided funding for technology equipment but did not fund ongoing operating and maintenance costs for that equipment”

Delaware's police chiefs want to make sure the state's fiscal woes don't knock their in-car computers off the air. via News Journal

“You can't have too much information.”

Legislators express concern after eight clusters discovered By CRIS BARRISH and JEFF MONTGOMERY * The News Journal * April 27, 2008 State Rep. via News Journal

They're not sure how long ago the man was hit along tracks for the SEPTA R2 line at about 7 a.m. Thursday, rail employees reported seeing the body next to the tracks in Newport, Delaware near the Newport ... via WPVI-TV Philadelphia

“That number is probably not going to be a final number”

An administrative assistant and bookkeeper for the town of Newport confessed to embezzling more than $100,000 over a three-year period, police said. via News Journal

“The [council's] report shows that the actual number is fairly small. ... It's something we're going to have to take a closer look at.”

Drug traffickers deserve just what they're getting under the state's minimum mandatory drug sentencing laws, key members of the Delaware Police Chiefs Council said Tuesday. via News Journal

“We just did 'Ethel Merman' at [the DuPont Theatre]. It's the same lighting”

Lauren Muller , Max Sanders as the Artful Dodger and Taylor Hollingsworth as Oliver rehearse with other members of the Wilmington Christian School "Oliver! "cast Thursday. via News Journal

“We need to get all the structural costs down”

For all the good in General Motors Corp.s 2007 results - the near-record worldwide sales, and the reductions in labor costs and in health obligations to retirees - there is no getting around the $38.7 billion ... via Philly.com

“Everything adheres to the curriculum. Our scores are better on the (state test), and I think it has allowed the teachers to be more collaborative. ... It helps them meet the needs of the students beyond what the expectation is.”

WILMINGTON -- What started as an offer to help a museum overcome flood damage in September 2003 landed the Delaware Military Academy a Superstars in Education Award on last week, one of eight handed out ... via The Daily Times

“These incidents proved to be some of the more violent robberies in recent years”

Arion Baynard, 21, lives on East 15th Street in Wilmington. Keith Cannon, 25, lives in the 2100 block of Bowers St. via News Journal