New Castle News

The giant, muddy excavation near the parking lot for Battery Park in Old New Castle is the result of a decade-long fight between neighbors in this historic city.

Aquanetta Jones is a single mom with three kids struggling to get by. The 42-year-old resident of the Rosegate development near New Castle got behind on her water-sewer bill, which comes from Wilmington even though she lives just outside city limits.

Share + Jul 6, 2009 1:59 pm US/Eastern NEW CASTLE Sunoco officials announced part of their Marcus Hook refinery will be permanently shut down following a massive fire in May.

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NEW CASTLE, Del. - July 5, 2009 -- New Castle County Detectives are currently investigating two armed robberies that occurred in the Hampton Walk Apartments early this morning.

Three Wilmington men face drug trafficking charges after New Castle County police stopped their car for a seat belt violation near New Castle and found cocaine and money, police said.

Speakman Company is pleased to introduce a full line of combination showers, featuring Speakman's stylish Anystream Euro handheld showers, Anystream Euro fixed showerheads and Anystream Designer Series fixed showerheads.

Three men were accosted at gunpoint late Tuesday in an armed robbery attempt near New Castle that left two injured, police said.

New Castle County police say one man was pistol whipped and another was shot during an attempted robbery.

NEW CASTLE, Del. - June 24, 2009 - -- A former Delaware Department of Corrections employee is charged with rape after, investigators say, he coerced a female inmate into having sex with him.

A 23-year-old New Castle man was fatally shot in the head early Sunday outside a restaurant near Newark, police said.

Gunshots echoed through the 100 block of Parma Ave. in Overview Gardens near New Castle early June 14, leaving a 28-year-old man dead.

Like most regions in the American Colonies, Delaware had its own cabinetmakers. Today, several museums in the state display examples of furniture produced in Delaware and occasionally new pieces surface at antique shows.

An 18-year-old New Castle man was gunned down during an attempted robbery in the Christiana Village neighborhood in Christiana early Thursday.

Detectives say they have charged a former Department of Correction employee for raping a 24-year-old woman at a treatement center in New Castle, Del.

NEW CASTLE, Del. - Delaware State Police say a former correctional officer has surrendered on charges of raping a female inmate.

Three men and a teenager were charged in the armed robbery of two 20-year-olds on their first date at Battery Park pier in New Castle early Tuesday, police said.

The Fourth of July is the birthday for the great nation that we know and love as the United States.

New Castle City police are searching for a gunman who held up patrons of a members-only club in town on Monday night.

A New Castle-area man faces charges e stole a debit card from an elderly neighbor and used it to shop for jewelry, electronics, and a used car.