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Carney touts bill expanding housing program
U.S. Rep. John Carney (D-Del.) emphasizes a point during a news conference Tuesday at Liberty Court Apartments in Dover. He said his proposed legislation will expand options for affordable housing....
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Dover assessment Readers reacted to Monday’s story about Dover City Council paying $100,000 to have an outside company review the city’s police, fire and EMS services. •Looking at a 100 percent...
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Former Hornets aiming to play pro hoops
DOVER — Neither Kendall Gray or Amere May were selected in the NBA Draft. But that doesn’t mean the two former Delaware State basketball standouts have given up on their dream of playing in the NBA....
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Runway of Hope helps cancer survivors
REHOBOTH BEACH –– An ever-growing population in Delaware –– cancer survivors –– benefit from the assistance of the Bayhealth Survivorship Program, which is about to host its annual fundraiser on July...
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Roundup: Felton-Harrington stays alive in Seniors
M.O.T. starting pitcher Dylan Kane (Delaware State News/Dave Chambers) Felton-Harrington pitcher Nolan Jones M.O.T. hitter Joe Wham Felton-Harrington centerfielder Bobby Hawkins scores a run....
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Cyberstalking case sent to Delaware jury
WILMINGTON — Jurors began deliberating Wednesday in the federal conspiracy and cyberstalking case against the widow and children of a man who killed his ex-daughter-in-law at a Delaware courthouse in...
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Accused bank robber facing trial for alleged store holdup
DOVER — A 33-year-old Newark man whose Kent County bank robbery conviction was overturned in February is facing a separate convenience store robbery trial that begins on Monday, according to a lawyer...
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Avian flu threat puts Delaware poultry industry on ‘high alert’
A file photo of baby chicks in an incubator. Sussex County, the birthplace of the broiler chicken industry, produces more chickens than any other county in the United States. (Delaware State News file...
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Delaware crab yield projected to be double last year’s catch
Waterman Larry Voss unloads the catch of the day onto the Leipsic River docks. If the season’s yield meets state projections, it will be almost twice as many crabs as last year, which was the best year...
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Sunday’s Commentary by Charito Calvachi-Mateyko, co-chairwoman of the Delaware Hispanic Commission, on the new Delaware law that allows undocumented residents a Driving Privilege Card resulted in these...
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Fugitive located, arrested in Harrington
HARRINGTON – A wanted 25-year-old man accused of slightly injuring a police officer while fleeing in a vehicle last month was apprehended on Thursday morning, police said when announcing the arrest...
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Jury continues deliberations in Delaware cyberstalking case
WILMINGTON — Jurors in the federal conspiracy and cyberstalking case against the widow and children of a man who killed his ex-daughter-in-law at a Delaware courthouse in 2013 ended a second day of...
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Academy of Dover audit findings sent to attorney general
DOVER — State audit findings alleging “longstanding fiscal management” by the Academy of Dover and $127,866 in personal purchases made by its former principal were forwarded to the Delaware Attorney...
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Milford stays alive in Major softball tournament
Milford defeated Dover 17-2 in a Major League softball tournament elimination game on Thursday night Macey Myers tripled, Stacey Deputy went 2-for-2 with a pair of RBI and Jada Allen and Cheyenne...
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Markell signs bill creating Office of Financial Empowerment
DOVER — Gov. Jack Markell signed a bill Thursday that creates an independent state Office of Financial Empowerment within the Department of Health and Social Services. The governor said the legislation...
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DelDOT: Road repairs covered by new funding
Delaware Department of Transportation Secretary Jennifer Cohan leads a media roundtable discussion Thursday inside the Dover headquarters Thursday. (Delaware State News photo by Dave Chambers) DOVER —...
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Schwartz Center music series getting in Comfort Zone
Members of Comfort Zone smooth jazz and rhythm and blues band are, back row, from left, Emmett “Rikk” Nixon, Sheldon Miller, Robert Benson and John Wilson. Front row, from left, are Michael Dominguez,...
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Kent County Theatre Guild’s ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ a fanciful fairy tale
Matt Gray, of Magnolia, is The Minstrel and Kellie Ford, of Clayton, is Lady Larken in the Kent County Theatre Guild’s production of “Once Upon a Mattress.” The play starts July 17 and runs for the...
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D-Day paratrooper visits AMC Museum for look at C-47 that flew him to France
D-Day paratrooper Joe Morettini of Erie, PA was reunited with history Thursday afternon during a scheduled visit the AMC Museum as he stands in the doorway of the actual C-47 that he jumped out of...
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Delaware court gunman’s relatives guilty of cyberstalking
WILMINGTON — The death of a woman shot by her former father-in-law at a Delaware courthouse in 2013 was the result of cyberstalking by the gunman’s widow and two children, a federal jury said Friday...
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