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COMMENTARY: Driving down Delaware’s healthcare costs, improving outcomes
The cost of providing healthcare to state employees (including those in school districts and charters), retirees, other groups covered under the state’s plan and covered family members — approximately...
View ArticleRoundup: Waller ties DSU record with 8 threes in win over Keystone
Kavon Waller tied a school-record with eight three-point field goals on nine attempts to lead Delaware State to a 92-69 win over Keystone in men’s basketball at Memorial Hall on Saturday. Waller nailed...
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Delaware write-in votes for president skyrocketed in November election
A voter places her absentee ballot at the Kent County Elections office in Dover. (Delaware State News/Marc Clery) DOVER — Delawareans cast 1,701 write-in votes for president in last month’s election,...
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Hartly woman wants compensation for ring lost at jail
DOVER — The Department of Correction is offering $1,000 reimbursement for a lost ring. Glenda M. Vanderwende says her engagement band was purchased for over $2,100 and has tremendous sentimental value....
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Agriculture Secretary Ed Kee prepares for retirement
Delaware Secretary of Agriculture Ed Kee. (Delaware State News/Marc Clery) DOVER — Just five of the 16 cabinet secretaries who made up Gov. Jack Markell’s first cabinet in January 2009 remain today,...
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Uber’s growth irks local taxi drivers
Dover City Cab driver Sean Stultz. (Delaware State News/Marc Clery) DOVER — Lifelong Dover resident Sean Stultz began working at City Cab of Delaware as a dispatcher. About six years ago he made the...
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Picking up the pieces after a difficult week
DOVER — Around the office, the staff sometimes will hear this editor describe a deadline as another “miracle on Galaxy Drive.” We pulled one off with last Sunday’s edition. After Saturday’s edition was...
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Smyrna’s Archangelo top wrestler at Milford meet; Knights win team title
Photos Special to the Delaware State News/Gary Emeigh MILFORD — His 100th career victory came on Friday night and he earned an Outstanding Wrestler award on Saturday night. So Chase Archangelo had a...
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Clayton author continues ‘A Christmas Carol’
Paul Mast, of Clayton, holds his book “A Cratchit Family Christmas,” which further develops the members of the Cratchit family after the death of Ebeneezer Scrooge. (Delaware State News/Marc Clery)...
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Two men wounded in latest South New Street shootings
DOVER — Another shooting incident on South New Street — the first block’s fourth in a month — left two men wounded early Friday morning, police said. The men, ages 32 and 27, were suffering from...
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Woodbridge celebrates state title: ‘The support has been great’
NEWARK — As his players celebrated and posed for pictures on the field, Ed Manlove tried to appreciate the moment. “Three or four years ago, who would have ever thought this?” said the Woodbridge High...
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Roundup: Rocco new Blue Hen coach? Will meet with UD officials today
Danny Rocco Richmond football coach Danny Rocco will meet with officials from both Delaware and Richmond today, according to a report in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Rocco is believed to be a leading...
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Dover mayor gets wheels rolling on homeless plan
Aaron Appling, pastor of Victory Church in Dover, speaks to the homeless and their advocates before addressing Dover City Council in late August. (Delaware State News/Mike Finney) DOVER — Dover Mayor...
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Trivia time for Dover’s Tricentennial: Friends of Old Dover offers up unique...
DOVER — What city in Delaware will be celebrating its 300th birthday in 2017? The choices are Wilmington, Dover, Smyrna or Hartly. The answer is — Dover. That question is probably not among the many...
View ArticleLETTER TO THE EDITOR: All men (and women) are indeed created equal
I’ve always adored the English language. Not because it’s my native tongue, or that I’m not bilingual, or that it works well with my Southern drawl, but because it has such glorious and descriptive...
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Accused Dover murderer requests trial by judge only
DOVER — A 29-year-old man facing re-trial in connection with a 2010 shooting death in a bowling alley parking lot asked for a judge-only bench trial on Monday afternoon. Isaiah W. McCoy, of Dover, is...
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Open enrollment deadline for ‘Obamacare’ approaching
DOVER — Delawareans must enroll in the Health Insurance Marketplace by Thursday to gain coverage starting Jan. 1. Others have until Jan. 31, the end of the 2017 open enrollment period, to sign up or...
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‘Be a Santa to a Senior’ needs more Santas
Home Instead Senior Care’s vice president of marketing, Larry DeFrancisco and client relations manger Rae Short wrap gifts alongside volunteers at the Modern Maturity Center in Dover on Monday. The “Be...
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Delaware’s chief justice pushes for higher salaries for judges
DOVER — Delaware’s top officials are underpaid, the head of the state’s judiciary told a committee working to revise salaries Monday. The 57 judges on the state’s top five courts are each paid at least...
View ArticleDelaware Supreme Court: Freed killer Culp must return to prison
DOVER — A convicted murderer’s reduced sentence was nullified in Delaware Supreme Court last week, mandating her return to prison. Catherine W. Culp, 56, successfully petitioned Kent County Superior...
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