Delaware News Archives

Attorney General Beau Biden went to federal court Friday to block the Army Corps of Engineers from deepening a section of the Delaware River within Delaware's borders without state permits.

Delaware Police issued 53 tickets last week to state drivers for not wearing seat-belts. Office of Highway Safety spokesperson Andrea Summers says that brings the total number of seat belt citations to 595 since the OHS kicked off it's safety initiative last August.

Delaware schoolchildren will begin receiving free swine flu vaccine next week, though state officials still are determining how they will prioritize distribution of the voluntary vaccinations.

Delaware, the first US state, is the only state without a national park. That does not set well with Delaware's US Senator Tom Carper , who has introduced a bill that would designate virtually the entire state as a national park.

Dean C. Reid has resigned as administrator of the Delaware Veterans Home in Milford, about five months after a Sunday News Journal story exposed problems there.

Delaware Public Health Officials have confirmed the state's first Swine Flu death.

The consumer group, Families U-S-A is out with a report that shows approximately 8-thousand 8-hundred Delawareans lost their jobs in 2009 .

Delaware came up short this year in the annual grapple for federal beach replenishment funds, a victim of a sharpening debate over taxpayer spending to repair the ocean's ceaseless attacks on shorelines.

The following roads have been closed because of flooding, the Delaware Department of Transportation reports this morning: New Castle County Del.

DOVER -- A recent study has found that more Delawareans are choosing to live a healthy, smoke-free lifestyle.

According to the Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, which is an ongoing telephone-based survey of adult Delawareans and is run by the University of Delaware, cigarette smoking among adults in Delaware is at its lowest level since 1982.

Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Castle announced Tuesday he will run for the U.S. Senate seat Democrat Joe Biden left to become vice president.

A Wilmington woman is charged with leaving her son in a car while she gambled at Delaware Park.

Shoppers and crafters look forward to the Christmas crafts season. Craft shows are held all over Delaware, in fire halls, churches, community centers and schools.

The State of Delaware has ordered thousands of doses of injectible and nasal spray vaccines for H1N1 or Swine Flu.

Seeing the Rockwood Museum Archives in storage is almost like a scene out of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." For more than ten years, stacks and stacks of climate-controlled boxes contained the history of the lives of some of Delaware's most influential families.

The delay means it will be another day or more before Flumist doses are given to all the state's health care workers.

Nine-term Delaware Republican congressman Michael Castle will run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Joe Biden last year after the Democrat was elected vice president.

An estimated 24,600 Delawareans who requested the automatic six-month extension to file their 2008 tax return face the upcoming October 15th deadline.

If you work in the Hockessin, Delaware area, here are some awesome lunch take-out restaurants for you to check out.

Hey there, ya' hungry? If you're not now, you will be as soon as you start looking at what's in store over the next several pages.

A survey of Delaware voters finds a variety of opinions about two candidates who have yet to announce whether they will run for Senate in 2010.

The 2009 Sustainable Delaware Conference will be held at Clayton Hall Conference Center in Newark, Del., the weekend of Oct.

DOVER - Health care providers in hospitals will receive most of the first shipment of swine flu vaccine available in Delaware, public health officials said Thursday.

Delaware health officials say there's been a modest increase in the number of H1N1 flu cases in the First State.

In January, Kenneth E. Fowler Jr. will mark 40 years as a member of the Delaware Army National Guard and he says he's seen enough.