Odessa News

The Civic League for New Castle County, Delaware's oldest and largest civic organization, is getting some heat from New Castle County Council over an article in its current newsletter that some elected leaders are lambasting as false and irresponsible.

The historic homes of Odessa go far to evoke the bygone era of shipping by ship, transit by horse and communication by letter.

A woman was killed and an 11-year-old boy was in serious condition after a single-car crash Friday that shut northbound Del.

ODESSA, Del. - May 15, 2009 -- A woman has died after a single-vehicle crash in Delaware.

A Delaware State Police corporal is charged with sexual extortion and other offenses for allegedly engaging in a sexual act with a woman he had arrested on a shoplifting charge.

Three times a week, Carole McKinney gets out her dustpan and broom and walks to a nearby Market Street corner, where she sweeps up trash that accumulates around some businesses.

A new group is forming to represent the concerns of residents who live in New Castle County below the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal.

Local residents met March 30 to form an organization to represent the Middletown-Odessa-Townsend area at the county and state level, and they're looking for concerned citizens to join.

A fire at a vacant house north of Smyrna March 18 was intentionally set, the State Fire Marshal's Office has ruled.

Some 30 years back, Kathy and Rusty Harvey of Centreville headed south to Odessa for the small-town life.

As children, we're taught to sing "America the Beautiful." As adults, we don't think twice about trashing it by throwing refuse out car windows, on beaches or even in wildlife preserves.

A pair of accidents that happened on parallel highways Wednesday afternoon near Odessa -- the second apparently caused by motorists slowing to look at wreckage from the first -- left at least four people ...

The Delaware Department of Transportation has more than $200 million in projects they're considering funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that President Barack Obama signed Feb.

Watching for people in pursuit, children will dash from a muskrat-skinning shed to the side door of an old house and up skinny winding stairs in a program designed to help them feel like slaves fleeing to ...

Governor Markell says 1,200 jobs could be created if Delaware receives economic stimulus funding for a series of transportation-related projects.

The Town of Middletown Mayor and Council ratified a contract with the Town of Odessa to sell Odessa 100,000 gallons worth of sewer treatment capacity.

She just didn't believe her mother. No matter how many times Bertice Berry's mother, Beatrice, told her that the family was not descended from slaves, Bertice dismissed the statement.

The Wilmington University Middletown campus was officially opened Jan. 8 with a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house.

Family and friends, as well as hundreds of firefighters, police officers, emergency service personnel and dignitaries, paid their respects and said their goodbyes to fallen Delaware City Volunteer Fire Company ...

On Dec. 12, the Town of Townsend revealed its new historic marker courtesy the Delaware Public Archives.