Ellendale News

* Gas leak on Lighthouse Road in Fenwick Island at 8:16 a.m. Bethany Beach Volunteer Fire Company responded.

* Structure fire at 32285 Pops Way in Dagsboro at 2:01 a.m. Dagsboro, Frankford, and Millville volunteer fire companies responded.

In mid-December, Rep. George Carey, R-Milford, announced he would not seek re-election, and the GOP wasted no time Wednesday, Jan.

The roughly $3,000 that several Georgetown-area churches have collected will soon be turned into food, water, medicine and other supplies for earthquake victims in Haiti.

The Sussex Tech Adult Division and the Cape Henlopen School District have entered into a partnership to provide opportunities for local citizens to earn their high school diploma by taking classes in Lewes.

The cupboard may not be bare, but times are lean as far as Sussex County human services grants are concerned.

* Traffic accident on 28800 block of Lewes Georgetown Hwy. in Lewes at 10:07 a.m. Lewes Volunteer Fire Company responded.

A 21-year-old Delaware woman is facing second-degree vehicular homicide charges after an crash that killed a Maryland woman on Thursday.

Every year Marine Toys for Tots volunteers collect new toys for children in need, but they never have received a donation like the one made Thursday, Dec.

The rains may have abated, but high water is still closing down roads in Delaware.

ELLENDALE , Del.- Delaware State Police say Route 16 between Old State Road and Sharon Road in Ellendale is shut down due to a electric pole that fell across the roadway.

MILLSBORO Trooper bitten by DUI suspect's dog: A Delaware State Police officer was sent to the hospital this morning for a dog bite he received while arresting a local woman for impaired driving.

As community activist Diaz Bonville likes to say, "People don't care about how much you know, until they know how much you care." Bonville's message served as theme for the 11th annual fundraiser and awards banquet Nov.

The prospect for a merry Christmas in the late 17th century was bleak, when William Penn declared, 'We utterly renounce all special and moral holiness of times and days.' Penn and other Quakers considered religious holidays to be needless corruptions of daily life, and some Quaker meeting leaders urged their members not to celebrate Christmas.

Tickets are now on sale for the Ellendale Community Civic Improvement Association Inc.

A man fleeing a three-vehicle crash late Friday was killed when he was hit by two other cars a mile north of Ellendale, state police said.

Delaware's collision unit is investigating an accident that happened overnight into Saturday near Ellendale Delaware.

In 1909, arguments were heard by the court of appeals on the question of whether oral betting on the race tracks constituted a violation of the anti-racetrack gambling laws.

State officials joined developers of Sandstone, a new, single-family home residential community near Ellendale, to showcase green building and energy-efficient construction methods.

Two-year-old Leon McCabe III will never get the chance to thank the man who saved his life.