New Castle News

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Members of Sweden's royal family joined Gov. Jack Markell and other Delaware officials Saturday to celebrate the 375th anniversary of the founding of a Scandinavian colony in the U.S. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia began their day in Delaware with a luncheon hosted by Markell at the Buena Vista conference center in New Castle, the ... (more)

New Castle County Police say a man awaiting arraignment on drug charges broke a sprinkler head in a holding cell and caused the area to flood.

The 12-9 vote came more than three hours after lawmakers began to hear testimony from House Bill 75 supporters and opponents.

Today, Delaware River and Bay Authority officials announced the selection of Joseph J. Gibbons, P.E. to serve as the agency's new Director of Maintenance.

Police say a man driving the wrong way on a Delaware highway caused a head-on crash that sent four people to the hospital, including a 2-year-old boy.

A New Castle County official says four people were seriously injured when a car and pickup truck crashed on U.S. 13 near New Castle.

Call it retro-futuristic, ornamental-industrial or 21st-century brooding with a hint of Victorian whimsy.

New Castle County police have arrested a 27-year-old man and his 63-year-old mother on drug charges.

A son and mother have been arrested in an investigation into illegal drugs in the Swanwyck Estates neighborhood near New Castle, county police said tonight.

A tip from the public led to the arrests Tuesday of two New York women who offered two undercover state troopers sex during separate massages, police said today.

Jim Ferris, the president of the Korean War Veterans Association, poses with then-Vice President Elect Joe Biden and Ferris' wife, Felice, in this Nov.

DOVER -- Days after supporters failed to muster enough support to move legislation repealing Delaware's death penalty out of a House committee, opponents successfully tabled the measure Tuesday, making it more difficult to revive the bill this session.

Five men were arrested on charges Friday night by police who were patrolling the Wilton community and were addressing quality-of-life issues, police said today.

A hard-to-remove toxic chemical that surfaced in a deep new Artesian Water Co. well south of New Castle has heated up debate over financial responsibility for fouled public water supplies and the effectiveness of a more-than-30-year Superfund cleanup effort.

Gov. Jack Markell introduced a plan Wednesday that aims to make schools safer, while a state House committee passed legislation designed to prevent gun violence on Delaware's campuses.

The American Lung Association Wednesday declared Delaware's capital city one of the nation's most soot-free, in a largely symbolic move that coincided with the group's latest and most-encouraging air quality report.

Colonial School District officials are alerting staffers who could be laid off if voters reject a proposed tax increase in June.