New Castle News

Police are looking for the whereabouts of twenty-six-year old Jonathan Wiseman, of New Castle.

Besides working on health care reform and extending the housing credit, members of Congress are working on another pressing issue.

In Bowers Beach and historic New Castle, state and local officials are planning for what many believe is inevitable: more flooding from rising sea level.

A Halloween night stabbing near New Castle left a 16-year-old hospitalized, and a 15-year-old charged with felonies.

New Castle County Police have arrested a 15-year-old for allegedly stabbing another teen on Halloween night.

New Castle County Police have charged a man and a woman with robbing a man who was trying to buy marijuana at the Cedarwood Apartments.

Officers are looking for a 35-year-old New Castle-area man who led them on a short car chase Thursday before running off, triggering an early morning search, police said.

Detectives are investigating two area convenience store armed robberies that occurred early Wednesday 90 minutes apart to see if they may be linked.

Sometimes the scariest Halloween experiences are those you create yourself. The psychological effect of imagined sounds and sights can be much more frightening than the artificial scares staged at "haunted" house attractions.

A New Castle area man has been arrested for resisting arrest and a total of nine traffic-related offenses, after he was involved in a car crash and left his girlfriend behind.

A New Castle man faces a first-degree murder charge for the recent shooting death of a man in a car at 23rd and Washington Streets in Wilmington.

NEW CASTLE, Del. -- A New Jersey woman who reported that she had been robbed at knifepoint early Tuesday was arrested after police say she made up the story in hopes of getting train fare.

The search continues for a man who fled the scene of a crash in the New Castle area, prompting the lockdown of the Reads Way campuses of Wilmington University and Wesley College for a time.

New Castle voters will have the chance to vote Tuesday on whether the city should accept federal stimulus money for a $1.3 million stormwater project.

Connecting Generations will host training sessions for any adult interested in becoming a volunteer mentor this fall.

More than 10,000 customers of Delmarva Power in New Castle County did not have electricity for a good part of the morning.

Four hundred years ago, Henry Hudson sailed into the Delaware Bay and laid claim to the land that would become the southern-most boundary of New Netherlands.

A house fire in the New Castle area displaces five people. The Fire Marshal's Office says its investigation determined there was an electrical malfunction that caused a fire to spread in the attic area of a home on Onaway Place in Garfield Park Sunday morning.

Traffic should flow freely on I-495 today in the wake of an accident that shut down the southbound lanes of the highway north of Wilmington for several hours Monday afternoon.

NEW CASTLE, Del. - October 16, 2009 -- New Castle County Police have a dangerous situation on their hands with two attacks on women at the same apartment complex during evening hours.