Pike Creek News

Curriculum pairs business training, other disciplines which are not 'big departures' from school's business focus By DANIELLE VICKERY * The News Journal * June 29, 2009 Larry Eby sometimes sees prospective students at college fairs who never have heard of Goldey-Beacom College or who don't know it as a business school.

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

Jack Spoehr turned to an ancient Chinese art to pick what he thinks will be the perfect present for his grandchildren, Emma, Jack, Luke, Eric and Pat.

Police arrested two Philadelphia men early Friday, charging them with stealing tires and chrome rims worth about $1,700 from a car in Pike Creek.

Delaware State Police are looking for a robber who held up the Walgreen's / Happy Harry's drug store on New Linden Hill Road in Pike Creek.

The fungus that has killed hundreds of thousands of bats -- known as white-nose syndrome -- could potentially wreak havoc on not only the mammals but on an ecological system that depends on them.

Sudden downpours broke out across Delaware Saturday, continuing the trend for a rain-soaked June.

A quick moving storm this afternoon has left approximately eight thousand seven hundred people without power.

They practice at night in out-of the-way underpasses, learning to paint colorful layers of elaborate graffiti within minutes.

Legislation to ban the use of hand-held cell phones while driving foundered Tuesday in the House, leaving its beleaguered sponsor to table the measure and seek a ban on texting instead.

May 8, 2009 -- The annual festival raises money for children's charities in Delaware.

Ed Baldwin Jr. and his sister, Janice, smiled as they looked at the butcher block their father used to cut meat at his corner store in the village of Christiana when they were kids.

As the state's first Jewish governor, Jack Markell will make history on Friday when he hosts a Passover seder at the governor's residence.

Hours before an anti-graffiti group unveiled a donated cleaning machine that will eradicate marks left by "taggers" in Brandywine Hundred and Claymont on Saturday, a new wave of spray-painted vandalism hit two Newark-area communities.

From the day they met, Rachelle Smith had doubts about the Canadian who had moved into her gated community nestled on a wooded hillside in Panama.

Police in New Castle County are investigating 15 cases of vandalism where buildings, homes and cars were damaged by graffiti.

In the Nicaraguan village of Catalina, they called themselves the Blanco family -- the Whites.

During the fall 2008 semester, Kirsten Andrews and Wenying Yu developed an automated routing system for the senior center's transport buses.

Dog ownership goes beyond the snuggles and face licks that make you feel so good.

A Pike Creek man who officials say set himself on fire inside his sport-utility vehicle remained hospitalized today in critical condition.