Wilmington Metro News Archives

“It makes patient care safer and reduces the risk of errors”

Facing a shortage of emergency room physicians, six Maryland hospitals will use doctors in Delaware to monitor intensive care patients electronically, officials said Monday.

In Maryland eCare, an intensivist, or critical care physician, who is stationed at a center in Wilmington, Del., will supervise overnight care for as many as 150 patients. The doctor will also offer guidance to onsite nurses.

The collaborative program, funded by a $3 million grant, is needed, officials say, in rural areas such as southern Maryland, where three of the six hospitals are located. Read more

Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner signed legislation Tuesday allowing same-gender charter schools in the First State. via WMDT-TV Salisbury

“You find people that participate in this as a family, and you don't see enough of that today”

As a man snoozes in a lawn chair near cages stacked three high, a woman marches past the food court of the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center, lifting up an unclaimed dog carrier. via Daily Times

Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials , CMP Technologies, and Nitta Haas Incorporated, leaders and innovators in chemical mechanical planarization technology for the global semiconductor industry, today announced ... via Earth Times

Police say they are looking for a motorcyclist after he left the scene of an accident that left one man dead in Milton on Saturday. via WBOC-TV Salisbury

A teenager in a stolen car led police Saturday on a high-speed chase and later shot at two troopers, who returned fire and killed him, authorities said.

The two troopers were wounded, but their injuries were not considered life-threatening, said state police Sgt. Stephen Jones.

The chase began at about 3:40 a.m. when the troopers tried to pull over two cars speeding at high speeds in South Jersey. The chase lasted for several miles.

One of the cars, a Chevy Malibu, then rolled to a stop in front of a farmhouse along the highway in Mannington, about 15 miles southeast of Wilmington, Del. Curtis Hayden Boyd Jr., 19, of Newark, Del., then got out of the car and ran into the open side of an outbuilding on the farm, police said. Read more

“By holding the meetings and taking submissions through the Web, we felt we were able to reach out beyond the university community.”

NEWARK -- Global. Graduate. Green. Those initiatives and others are outlined in a new report that recommends what the University of Delaware needs to do to provide students, alumni, the state and world with ... via The Daily Times

“This is kind of a once in a lifetime deal for a lot of people, and for so many of us involved in the faith, it will be kind of like touching home base.”

SALISBURY -- Hundreds of Lower Shore and Delaware residents plan to travel to Washington on Thursday to attend a Mass with Pope Benedict XVI. via The Daily Times

NEWARK, Del. - Delaware State Police say troopers arrested two men shortly after a woman called to say they had taken her car. via The Daily Times

“There were times when I didn't (win) on the first or second try. It took me nine years to finally nail it”

NEWARK -- A life-threatening illness may have left Vincenza Carrieri-Russo with developmental disorders, but the Newark native who will be representing Delaware in the 57th annual Miss USA competition said it ... via The Daily Times

“The water's not even ready here”

WILMINGTON - First it was the price of gas, then milk and wheat -- now it's blue crabs, that Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay tradition that has seen a spike in prices. via The Daily Times

WILMINGTON - A Delaware Chancery Court judge approved a settlement Tuesday in a shareholder lawsuit against directors and executives of Tyson Foods. via The Daily Times

“Do you know what the Klan is all about?”

I dusted off a dozen well-worn middle-school novels and tucked them into the cupboards of the school where I teach. via Palm Beach Post

Philadelphia Business Journal - by Peter Van Allen Staff Writer A struggling shopping center on Wilmington's riverfront has new life. via Commercial Real Estate

“It was a surprise to me to see such detailed blueprints, down to where the furniture was going to be placed”

Carpenter Bruce Bartow pulled up to the Wilmington "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" site in February expecting to serve as a member of the rapid-build's Cobra team. via Delaware Online

“My plan is to hang in there as long as possible”

It's 4:15 p.m. on a recent Saturday, and Chuck Madarani, 47, is just getting home from his shift at a Chrysler plant in Newark, Del. via MSNBC