Smyrna News

Eugene M. Getchell, III, 71, of Smyrna, DE passed away at home on November 5 after a lengthy illness.

Dover Police arrested a married couple after they admitted to putting their newborn baby in a garbage bag and throwing it in a dumpster, say police.

Dereke and Jeanne Moore, accused of leaving the body of their stillborn son in a motel trash bin, remained behind bars Wednesday, according to a Department of Correction spokesman.

Flag-decorated and covered with remembrances of prisoners of war and the missing in action, a special hearse just for veterans pulled into Matthews-Bryson Funeral Home in Smyrna this week.

Police are investigating the death of a newborn, said to be stillborn, whose parents disposed of the body in a trash bin behind a Dover hotel, police said today.

The Beebe Medical Center board of trustees announced Dr. Paul Cowan, chief of the hospitala s Emergency Department, and Dr.

Here's a great idea for how to expand an area's tree cover. Go pick up acorns and spread them around.

DOVER , Del.- Nationwide in 2008, 58 percent of all fatalities nationwide on Halloween night were alcohol-related, according to the Delaware Office of Highway Safety.

One of the teenage sons of a Dover woman being assaulted by her ex-husband grabbed a shotgun and fired into the air to get his father to stop the attack, Dover police said.

NCCo gun laws now in line with state, U.S. New Castle County's gun laws now mesh with regulations in force at the state and national level, at least when it comes to emergency situations.

Sunnyside Elementary School is one of the elementary schools in the Smyrna School District with an "elevated" number of students out sick due to H1N1 and other illnesses.

Thomas George Moore Jr. of Smyrna and Jessica Grace Cox of Downington, Pa. Doublas Robert Morgan of Lincoln and Stacy Lynn Dotterer of Milford.

SMYRNA, Del. - October 14, 2009 -- The Delaware State Police say they've arrested a man for raping two girls.

State police are warning Kent County residents to lock their vehicles in the wake of a series of thefts from unlocked cars.

Coach, consultant, author and business executiveA Michael Duke, will help dealers get ready for the recovery and coach their teams to legendary service during a special workshop Monday, Nov.

William Shakespearea s a oeThe Taming of the Shrewa will be the first public performance of the Possum Point Playersa newest subgroup, New Faces of Shakespeare.

Cheswold - Smyrna resident Stephen Cerko was critically injured in an automobile collision on Benford Road yesterday.

Urged on by more than 50 volunteer firefighters in dress blues and whites, Kent County Levy Court voted unanimously Tuesday night to establish minimum street widths of 28 feet for major subdivisions.

21, 2009----The Delaware Aerospace Education Foundation will host a "Dinosaurs to Space Family Fundraiser Day" from 1-4 p.m., Saturday, Sept.

The company wins its 29th Governor's Cup Trophy at the annual Delaware Volunteer Firefighters Association march in Dover.