Obama selects Biden as running mate

To understand public sector financing you’ve got to wade pretty deep into numbers. You’d better have a calculator handy.

But in this year’s race for New Castle County Executive you’re likely to need more tools at your disposal – a dictionary, some history books and perhaps a few over-the-counter pain killers. It’s enough to give you a headache.

They didn’t always strongly distinguish themselves on the issues during Monday's pre-Primary debate at the Hockessin Firehall, but styles varied among seven Hockessin-area senate candidates.

For Chris Coons and Tom Gordon, each seeking another term as New Castle County executive, Monday’s debate in Hockessin was the latest installment in a long-running political rivalry. But for Paul Clark and William Dunn, both candidates for county council president, it may have been only the opening chapter.

Sixteen couples plan to be married by New Castle County's Clerk of the Peace on August 8, 2008, hoping to draw good luck from the triple eights, auspicious numbers in Chinese culture.

After 10 years of accepting only cash for marriage licenses, New Castle County's Clerk of the Peace is now accepting credit and debit cards.

Philadelphia Pike. To many it is among the most historic roads in the United States – a vital cog in the Colonial efforts in the Revolutionary War. To others it’s an eyesore, representative of the 20th-century suburbia, when the strip mall became king.

To the folks on the state’s Scenic and Historic Highways Advisory Board, however, it’s both. And that’s the problem with the 4.4-mile stretch of U.S. 13 between the Pennsylvania state line and Wilmington’s northern boundary as it relates to the state’s Historic Highway designation: it is cluttered by its own history.

For more than a century, Woodlawn Trustees has been one of the leading preservation groups in the region. It is also the largest provider of low-income housing in the City of Wilmington, which it subsidizes through long-term leases of its considerable property holdings. This story examines the group's effort to fulfill the dual mission of their founder William Bancroft, 100 years later.

Lightning struck a Hockessin home during a severe rainstorm Wednesday evening causing a fire and minor damage to the roof.

Gov. Ruth Ann Minner signed Senate Bill 213 into law on July 22, which creates tax options for asset management corporations and promises to lead to at least 300 new jobs in Delaware.

New Castle County Council President Paul Clark was sanctioned by his colleagues Tuesday in response to a lingering controversy surrounding an e-mail Clark sent to developers last month. Some say the reprimand sends a message that developers are bad, others say it helps restore public confidence.

New Castle County will not reimburse former Chief Administrative Officer Sherry Freebery $3.7 million in legal fees she incurred during a five-year battle against federal corruption and fraud charges.

The City of Wilmington and New Castle County officials agreed Monday that they would ask an arbitrator to intervene after 18 months of talks stalled over how much the County should pay for the use of Wilmington’s Wastewater Treatment Facility.

The Delaware Department of Justice announced Monday it has recovered more than $1 million for the state’s Medicaid Program through a settlement with a former subsidiary of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.

Residents have filed a second suit over plans for a 160-unit subdivision on the former Hercules Golf Course, this time over concerns that contaminated dust from the project could leave the site during construction.

New Castle County Council will vote Tuesday on whether the government will pay $3.7 million to former Chief Administrative Officer Sherry Freebery for legal bills she incurred during a five-year battle against federal corruption and fraud charges.

The City of New Castle is featured in this month’s edition of the popular home improvement magazine “This Old House” as one of the “Best Places to Buy an Old House” in the United States.

Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has signed a bill expanding the state’s Amber Alert program to include the disappearance of people who are over 60, disabled, or known to be suicidal. The bill was inspired by an incident last summer when an 85-year old went missing for three days after she fell into a 20-foot, brush-covered ravine.

Three-quarters of Northern New Castle County’s school districts saw moderate decreases in the number of high school students meeting state reading standards. In math, results were evenly split between losses in Brandywine and Christina, and small gains in Red Clay and Vo Tech.  All experienced double-digit percentage point increases in high school writing. 

Nonprofit organizations are preparing to curtail programs, reduce staff and search for other sources of funding in the wake of an 8 percent reduction in state grant money approved by the General Assembly for the 2009 fiscal year.