Smyrna News

Snippy Doodles the clown and Crystal the stilt walker didn't plan to start a 4-H club.

After growing up on the family farm in Smyrna, DE, future country music star Chuck Wicks spent his college years discovering his musical talents.

Police agencies across Delaware are stepping up drunken driving enforcement. The Office of Highway Safety launches its annual Checkpoint Strikeforce campaign with six DUI checkpoints over the Fourth of July weekend.

Fireworks, festivals and more celebrate the nation's birthday on July 4. Because the fourth is on a Saturday this year, most of the celebrations fall on the holiday itself.

The upcoming state budget would give lawmakers less than half the money they got this year for a controversial program to fix streets, plant trees and pave parking lots in their districts, a legislative committee recommended Sunday.

SMYRNA, Del. - The country's first mobile training site to teach police how to clear rooms of threats and handle active shooters has opened in Delaware.

Like most regions in the American Colonies, Delaware had its own cabinetmakers. Today, several museums in the state display examples of furniture produced in Delaware and occasionally new pieces surface at antique shows.

The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee balked Monday at an administration proposal to close Emily P. Bissell Hospital and Gov.

Happy Saturday... I thought the weekend would never get here! I thought I'd grab an artist off the Birthday Board for today's Frog Blog.

Delaware State Police detectives say they arrested a man on Friday that they believe is a major supplier of marijuana to Kent and Sussex counties.

Two men are facing drug-related charges after police seized more than 7 pounds of marijuana, about 200 prescription pills and more than $10,700 in suspected drug money, officials said.

Deputy Warden Jim Hutchins has been named Warden of Kent County Community Corrections, the state Department of Correction announced Friday.

In the waning hours of the 2004 legislative session, Delaware lawmakers found themselves voting to buy two golf courses that few knew were about to be purchased.

Smyrna town leaders have been unable to fill a vacant council seat. Smyrna's charter requires four votes from the six-member council to appoint a candidate to a council seat vacancy.

Delaware State Police say they have arrested a woman for drug dealing charges after she was stopped for a traffic violation in Smyrna Wednesday night.

Kent County Levy Court wants to hold onto the 354 years' worth of history reflected in its name, but that seemingly noble ambition is getting in the way of its effort to modernize county operations and save up to $250,000 a year in the process.

It started Friday night at 10:30pm at a residence in the unit block of Hunter Road in Chelsea Estates.

Governor's Task Force specializes in searching and finding wanted persons and "active probationers." The GTF is looking for 27-year old Michael Holland of Smyrna.

Motorcycles thundered through Dover April 25, to remind their four-wheeled friends to share the road.

Keeping tabs on Delaware's horseshoe crabs is a labor of love. The state's annual spring counts typically start in the middle of the night.