Kent County News

This Fourth of July weekend, the red and blue that speeding or intoxicated drivers spot in their rearview mirrors won't be fireworks but police lights, officials warn.

Police agencies across the state are stepping up measures to arrest drunk drivers with six DUI checkpoints planned during the Fourth of July weekend and 92 others scheduled during the next six months.

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.

A crowd of dignitaries, including Delaware Gov. Jack Markell and Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Myron Steele, gathered Thursday in Dover to "top off" the new annex to the Kent County Courthouse.

WOODLAND BEACH , Del.- Authorities have arrested a third man accused of growing more than 350 marijuana plants near Woodland Beach Wildlife Area.

Nearly 7 and a half pounds of marijuana is off the streets in Kent County, Delaware.

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

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.

The Republican Party can be called the Grand Old Party for good reason: Its voters are older, while younger voters are gravitating toward the Democrats.

Last week, the state Attorney General's Office was a day away from putting Loyer Braden on trial for the death of a 17-year-old Delaware State University student.

DOVER - Disgraced former state trooper HyunJin Kim was sentenced Tuesday to spend six years behind bars for orchestrating the gunpoint robbery of a poker game at a Kent County country club.

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.

A court has convicted four people from Dover in connection with dogfighting in Delaware.

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.

Now halfway through its two-week budget-balancing process, the state's Joint Finance Committee has nipped about $1 million from the budget in "easy" cuts, but some lawmakers say they're ignoring the "elephant in the room" -- a proposed 8-percent state salary cut that, alone, would save almost $92 million.

CAMDEN, Del.- It has been nearly 12 years since Linda Jobes was attacked in her own home.

During the next three weeks, weather permitting, the DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife will be treating six downstate ponds for aquatic nuisance weeds that, left unchecked, can choke the waters, crowd out other, more beneficial plant species and prevent fishing and boating access.

SMYRNA, CLAYTON, and KENTON, Del. - Incumbent Jeff Clark won the Smyrna School District Board of Education election on Tuesday with nearly 85 percent of the vote.

State police have charged two men in more than 100 car break-ins in Kent County since February.

Troopers with the Delaware State Police on May 7 arrested two men believed responsible for more than 100 burglaries and thefts in Kent County.