Elsmere News

Delaware Fire Marshall is investigating the cause of a fire Saturday just before 4:00 in the afternoon.

Bills that will replace the Delaware Student Testing Program with a computerized test and will financially reward the schools that do the best job educating at-risk students passed in the House on Thursday and now await the governor's signature.

The upcoming state budget would give lawmakers less than half the money they got this year for a controversial program to fix streets, plant trees and pave parking lots in their districts, a legislative committee recommended Sunday.

A high-profile graffiti tagger was arrested Thursday for scrawling his signature vandalism on objects ranging from bridges to highway barriers across New Castle County, police said.

The Senate has passed a resolution calling for environmental officials to label closed-cycle cooling systems among the best technology available for industrial facilities.

From his seat on the 50-yard line of the Senate Chamber, Bridgeville Democrat Thurman G. Adams Jr.

Elsmere's top two cops and an administrative assistant were placed on paid administrative leave by town council Thursday night.

A revived effort to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination in Delaware got off to an improbably strong start Wednesday in the state Senate -- the same place five previous versions of the legislation were killed.

Gov. Jack Markell signed a bill last week designed to make it easier to adopt children in Delaware - " a move that is expected to help 100 families in the state.

ELSMERE, Del. - May 28, 2009 - -- A 19-year-old woman from Delaware is hospitalized after she was hit by a pickup truck while crossing the street.

Governor Markell says, "Keepinig Delawareans safe is one of the most important responsibilities for those of us in government, and these two laws do exactly that." The first statute provides victims' services to kids who are "earwitnesses".. that is, they hear... domestic violence, even if they do not observe it.

State public health officials have confirmed 24 more swine flu cases -- all in children under 16.

New Castle County Police have charged a Newark teen with trying to break in to a woman's apartment near Elsmere.

A bill that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in areas such as housing and hiring died Wednesday in a Senate committee -- marking the latest defeat in supporters' perennial efforts to get such laws passed in Delaware.

Delaware is 14 votes away from becoming the first state east of the Mississippi River to allow sports betting.

Swine flu has now been confirmed in at least 33 Delawareans, and the state today announced the first confirmed cases beyond the University of Delaware community.

Graffiti vandals cause millions of dollars in property damage across the country each year and know no geographic boundaries.

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Delaware health officials say there are now 10 confirmed cases of swine flu in the state, along with 16 probable cases.

Parents would be able to purchase health insurance for their children from the state under a proposal introduced Thursday by Lt.