Wilmington News

Police are looking for the whereabouts of twenty-six-year old Jonathan Wiseman, of New Castle.

For nearly everyone in the courtroom, Friday's sentencing of James L. Friend for the manslaughter of Curtis Matthews was a story that has been played out before them far too many times in recent months.

The Delaware Department of Transportation says delays can be expected this Saturday for drivers using I-95 north of Wilmington, due to maintenance being performed at the Brandywine River Bridge.

WILMINGTON, Del. - November 6, 2009 -- A handpainted Christmas ornament for $2. A marble-topped dresser for $8. Men's and women's tops and pants for $1 or $2 each.

"Stomp," a show that got its start after two British street performers decided to stop carrying heavy drum kits to gigs, has been around for 18 years.

A federal bankruptcy-court judge has ruled against a request from a lawyer for sex-abuse victims to require Bishop W. Francis Malooly to attend a meeting with the creditors of the Wilmington, Delaware diocese.

Two people were transported to Christiana Hospital after a car crashed into a Wilmington restaurant Wednesday night.

An 80-year-old woman -- who pulled her 82-year-old stroke-victim husband out of a nursing home, refused in-home nursing care and took him to live in the back room of a junkyard office -- was convicted this week of one count of elder abuse and two counts of attempting to violate a no-contact order.

The judge handling the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington's bankruptcy case dispensed with several contentious issues Monday and said he would be very reluctant to allow pending civil lawsuits to go forward against the diocese while it is trying to reorganize.

The fast-growing group of millionaire private college and university presidents hit a new record in recent years, and it's likely more college leaders will make seven-figure salaries once the slumping economy rebounds.

Wilmington Couple Convicted of Loan Fraud Scheme Involving Over $1.5 Million in Losses Jury Finds Defendants Guilty on 14 Counts of Fraud and Illegal Monetary Transactions David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Ed Johnson, age 60, and G. Carol Johnson, age 67, of Wilmington, were both found guilty ...

A jury has convicted an 80-year-old woman of forcing her 82-year-old husband to live in the office of a junkyard, leaving him with a pot for bathing and couch for sleeping.

Wilmington officials look to update the City Code to make sure that wage taxes and other taxes and fees are being collected properly.

Detectives have charged a 21-year-old man in an early-morning shooting Saturday that left two men wounded, one critically, in Wilmington's Little Italy neighborhood.

Wilmington Police Detectives have charged 21-year old Itius Wynn with the shooting of two people.

Three robberies and one attempted robbery occurred Friday night in a two hour period in Delaware.

The search continues for a man who fled the scene of a crash in the New Castle area, prompting the lockdown of the Reads Way campuses of Wilmington University and Wesley College for a time.

Wilmington University is hosting its first scholarship fundraiser Saturday. The Green and White Scholarship Ball, a masquerade party, is planned for 7 to 11 p.m. in the Doberstein Admissions and Classroom Building on the college's main campus near New Castle.

Fisker Automotive has selected the GM Wilmington Assembly plant in Wilmington, Delaware for production for Project NINA, the development and build of a family-oriented plug-in hybrid sedan costing about $39,900 after federal tax credits.

Now reported widely around the web, Fisker Automotive seems to be near a deal to acquire General Motor's Boxwood Road assembly plant in Wilmington, DE, where GM produced the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice.