Delaware News

George Schofield bends his elbows and vigorously moves his arms up and down. "For years, I was shaking like this," he said, "and I went to one hospital after another and they couldn't figure out what the problem was." Schofield, an 80-year-old Korean War veteran and Newark resident, said he suffered from the problem for eight years.

West Nile virus has been detected in Delaware for the first time this year, in a blood sample taken from sentinel chickens in Wilmington that are monitored for mosquito-borne diseases.

GEORGETOWN - Yesterday at the Delaware State Fair, Governor Jack Markell and Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Collin O'Mara honored the 2010 Wetland Warrior, ecologist Peter Martin of Georgetown, for his tireless pursuit of restoring the largest freshwater wetland that remains in Delaware, the Great ...

Delaware's senators pleaded with their colleagues on Thursday to confirm judicial nominee Leonard Stark before a second U.S. District Court vacancy in Delaware becomes effective today.

The stakes are high in the Delaware Senate race to serve out Joe Biden's term where the victor will be eligible to serve upon election and thus will participate in the lame duck session.

More than 100 guests gathered at a community table near neat lines of growing produce June 29, for From the Farm, a dining event fundraiser for Milton Theatre.

The Music School of Delaware reported a 10 percent increase in enrollment for the upcoming school year, the fruit of an effort to build its profile over the last three years.

Skateboarders in northern Delaware finally may have a place to call home by next spring.

Delaware beaches rank second in the nation in water quality, according to a report released Wednesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Dear Constitutionalists This Friday is the State Convention for the Constitution Party of Delaware.

Dr. Judy Pierson, clinical psychologist, spoke to a full house at the July 9 Lunch Bunch Lecture Series at the Delaware Hospice Center in Milford.

Ralph K. Graves, 77, of Georgetown, died Thursday, July 15, 2010, at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore, following an automobile accident in Millsboro.

GEORGETOWN -- The plane that crashed and killed a Delaware pilot on a goodwill flight this month bounced on the runway three times at a North Carolina airport before hitting trees, a preliminary report says.

Two people were arrested Monday in connection with a rash of copper thefts from farmers' irrigation systems over the past seven months at farms in Kent County in which about 3.6 miles of copper wire was stolen, state police said.

The Delaware Office of Highway Safety's "Checkpoint Strikeforce" campaign to crackdown on impaired drivers is heating up.

For Delawareans like Shirlene Thomas, this summer's heat has been more than an inconvenience.

Stray dogs, lost cats and unwanted pets will be better cared for as Gov. Jack Markell signed Friday, July 23, the first-of-its-kind animal shelter standards for Delaware.

West Nile virus has been detected in Delaware for the first time this year in a blood sample taken from sentinel chickens that are monitored for mosquito-borne diseases.

Ralph K. Graves, 77, of Georgetown, died Thursday, July 15, 2010, at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore, following an automobile accident in Millsboro.

Nancy Stenger Joseph, publisher of Best Places in Town and Delaware Beach Weddings, is expanding her publications by launching e-editions. The new digital editions have exactly the same content and look like the printed guides.