Smyrna News

For a last big push of the year, the Delaware Office of Highway Safety is coordinating with law enforcement agencies throughout the state for drunken-driving patrols and sobriety checkpoints tonight.

DOVER -- The Delaware Board of Medical Practice wasted little time suspending the license of alleged serial pedophile Dr.

Casting the state as the villain, Kent County Levy Court on Tuesday night adopted a dog licensing fee schedule for the first time and sharply increased fees for operators of kennels and retail dog outlets.

Delaware officials say an 18-year-old man slipped out of his handcuffs and escaped from the courthouse in Dover.

With this weekend's wallop of a snowstorm, Paul Moliken figures the snow blower he bought about five years ago was one of the best investments he has ever made -- even if this was only the second time he has used it.

SMYRNA, Del. -- Sydney A. Kaufman, 63, of Smyrna passed away Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009, at her home in Smyrna, after a long illness.

Maryland and Delaware Govs. Martin O'Malley and Jack Markell have declared a snow-related emergency in their respective states, amid piling up snow totals and blizzard-like winds.

Mark Rivera, 32, of Camden, has been convicted of first-degree murder in the October 2007 drowning death of 25-year-old Christine Pate of Smyrna, whose body was recovered from the Leipsic River within Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.

GEORGETOWN -- Army 1st Lt. Keith W. Bauer has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Lyneisha Caneice-Renee Cuffee, of Smyrna, died Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. She is survived by her mother, Sharri Cuffee of Selbyville; a sister, Tylee Cuffee of Selbyville; grandfathers, James E. Cuffee of Selbyville and Russell Collins of Berlin; an aunt, Renee Cuffee-Williams and her husband, Jeffery, of Newark; and special friends, Vanessa Corbin, ...

Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ronald D. Wilson has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Army National Guard Staff Sgt. David A. Passwaters IV has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

W. Charles Paradee III believes the Internet is poised to send libraries the way of the eight-track tape.

A no-growth budget proposal from the Department of Health and Social Services, Delaware's largest state agency, could mean cuts to services at a time of growing demand.

BRIDGEVILLE -- Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Garrett A. Johnson has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Eugene M. Getchell, III, 71, of Smyrna, DE passed away at home on November 5 after a lengthy illness.

Dover Police arrested a married couple after they admitted to putting their newborn baby in a garbage bag and throwing it in a dumpster, say police.

Dereke and Jeanne Moore, accused of leaving the body of their stillborn son in a motel trash bin, remained behind bars Wednesday, according to a Department of Correction spokesman.

Flag-decorated and covered with remembrances of prisoners of war and the missing in action, a special hearse just for veterans pulled into Matthews-Bryson Funeral Home in Smyrna this week.

Police are investigating the death of a newborn, said to be stillborn, whose parents disposed of the body in a trash bin behind a Dover hotel, police said today.