Delaware News

Kevin Cancannon, undersecretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recently presented awards to state officials recognizing Delawarea s proficiency in processing applications for SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

A Delaware lawmaker taking part in the monitoring of Iraq's election says frequent bomb blasts appeared to do little to discourage the Iraqi people from turning out at the polls.

SELBYVILLE -- Nearly 100 years ago, bullfrogs were used to control 'plagues of sand flies and mosquitoes' that often drove visitors from Delaware's beach towns.

Police have charged a Newark woman with raping a boy who was a member of her church youth choir.

A "Families USA" report s shows failure to enact the plan will lead, in the next decade, to approximately 700 premature deaths in the First State.

Lawyers who have filed 17 lawsuits against Dr. Earl. B. Bradley and Beebe Medical Center on behalf of abused children have added new defendants: the Medical Society of Delaware and three physicians -- all accused of knowing Bradley, a pediatrician accused of molesting patients, posed a threat for years but failing to report him to authorities.

If you still haven't filed your taxes for 2006,nearly 52-hundred Delawareans haven't, you better do so by April 15th.

The man accused of killing his mistress in New Jersey and abandoning their 20-month-old daughter at a Delaware gas station last week pleaded not guilty Monday to murder, kidnapping and other charges.

Thirty-five year old Damian Filkins was found dead in his cell at the Howard Young Prison in Wilmington Saturday night.

Former Delaware Public Archives head Russ McCabe filed Wednesday to run for the seat being left vacant by Rep.

Newark Police are investigating a Thursday morning robbery. Three University of Delaware students were held up in their Main Street apartment around 7:15 p.m. The victims told police two armed, masked men got into the apartment through an unlocked door.

As the fourth major winter storm barrels into the area, Delmarva Power has extra personnel on hand to handle any power outages.

Members of a street gang called "GLC" kidnapped a pregnant 19-year-old in December 2008 and took her to a Newark apartment where they punched her in the face and kicked her in the stomach, put out cigarettes on her face and held a knife to her throat while telling her she was going to die, according to prosecutors.

As light snow began to fall across Delaware this morning, warmer temperatures over the past several days kept the roads from becoming covered.

This monster does not deserve to have a trial at the tax payers expense. Filming himself violating these kids shows that this animal needs to be put down immediately.

DOVER -- Gov. Jack Markell on Tuesday embraced a call for the Delaware General Assembly to apologize for the state's role in slavery.

A new statewide Earned Income Tax Credit Collaboration was unveiled Tuesday morning.

Nearly $200,000 in gramnt money will be used to rehabilitate the historic Josephine Bakhita House this spring.

Delaware's smaller towns are threatening to fine people for sidewalks still covered with snow, while the areas where most people live are giving residents a pass.