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Except most of the machines send the pumpkins flying so far you can't see them land, much less hear them.

Punkin Chunkin is growing, and event organizers of the annual event near Bridgeville welcome it.

Incoming! The pumpkins will be flying this weekend near in Bridgeville, Del. The 24th annual world Punkin Chunkin contest will have the orange gourds soaring over a field.

SEAFORD -- Delaware State Police continued to investigate a single-vehicle crash that killed a 37-year-old Seaford man Monday.

GEORGETOWN - Southern Delaware Tourism has begun accepting nominations for the 2009 Southern Delaware Tourism Recognition Award.

GEORGETOWN - The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded the Sussex Tech Adult Division's Family Literacy Program a $20,000 grant.

There is no doubt Punkin Chunkin is one of the premier events on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Financial literacy has a language all its own, but throw Spanish into the mix and there's another barrier.

Birthday cupcakes are a thing of the past at Forest Oak Elementary School. So are candy bars and regular sodas at the concession stand at Woodbridge High School football games in Bridgeville.

BRIDGEVILLE , Del.- Delaware State Police say a Sunday night traffic stop resulted in the arrest of a Bridgeville man on drug paraphernalia and criminal impersonation charges.

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It wasn't even thought of as a local one. Basically, a few guys gathered in the woods to drink and launch pumpkins off of flatbed trucks with contraptions made from tree branches, for no other reason than to watch the fruit fly.

BRIDGEVILLE -- Hank Cumberland stood next to a telephone pole, noshing away in his own little world of soft-but-crunchy, description-defying bliss, paying no attention to the crowds swirling around him.

Birthday cupcakes are a thing of the past at Forest Oak Elementary School in Stanton.

BRIDGEVILLE -- When old-time autumn hog killings ceased being an Eastern Shore tradition, cooks found store-bought scrapple was pretty close to home-made and the scrapple of choice was RAPA brand.

A homeless man known to frequent the Bridgeville area is wanted by police for allegedly burglarizing a Mill Park Drive home last Saturday.

In most cases, they were rivals, with team names like the Mustangs, Rebels, Indians, Blue Devils, Foresters and Golden Knights.

A Bridgeville man died Friday of gunshot wounds after he stopped along a Kent County road to buy a dog, state police reported Saturday.

Peter F. Brown, 81, of Ocean View, died Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009, at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.

Scrapple lovers come together the second weekend each October in Bridgeville, Delaware, to eat scrapple sandwiches, to shoot packages of scrapple from a shot put and to carve scrapple into "works of art." If you've never heard of scrapple, it is the leftovers from butchering a hog, grinding everything up, mixing it with corn meal and pressing into ...