Townsend, Hansen, Pinkney take over Delaware Senate leadership
Delaware’s Senate Democrats opted for predictability in their caucus on Thursday when voting to elevate three prominent members to new roles in leadership.
Rare tornado hits Bear area, causing limited damage
The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado did touch down in New Castle County, but its intensity and exact track is still being determined.
Lulu Ross Elementary fire caused by electrical fault, fire marshal says
Delaware fire marshals who investigated a blaze that tore through Milford’s Lulu M. Ross Elementary School last month said a failed fluorescent lightbulb caused the fire that displaced 600 students.
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Newark police arrest two in connection with Halloween mass shooting
Two teenagers have been charged with attempted murder for the Halloween night shooting that wounded seven people near the University of Delaware, Newark police announced Monday.
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Delaware GOP expresses fear toward Democratic supermajorities
With Delaware Democrats’ decisive victories in the general election, Republicans in the legislature are now expressing fears that their voices could go unheard in Dover if lawmakers veer to the left.
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Laurel school board member promotes parent to assume superintendent duties
A Laurel school board member says a colleague has a conflict of interest because his mother is now in charge of superintendent duties.
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Lewes-area townhome development would bring affordable housing
A proposed townhome development next to Route 1 may be the first of several new additions to Sussex County’s affordable housing program
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Delaware receives additional $160M for rural health support
Earlier this week, state officials announced Delaware would receive $160.3 million in its second year of funding from the federal Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), a provision of the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that earmarks $50 billion for states to improve their rural health care infrastructure.
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After a ‘lawyer’ took her money, she now faces immigration hearings alone
After being scammed by a man claiming to be an immigration lawyer and losing her husband to deportation, one Nicaraguan mother in Delaware has approached her own deportation hearings without legal representation.
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Delaware politicos gather in Georgetown to ‘bury the hatchet’ after campaign season
Dozens of Delaware’s newly elected officials, along with some of their losing opponents in this week’s midterm elections, gathered together in Georgetown on Thursday to literally “bury the hatchet” as part of a centuries-old celebration.
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