Kent County News

The board of directors of the Downtown Dover Partnership agreed Thursday to throw its weight behind an effort by Queen Anne's County, Md., to become the site of a federal diplomatic training facility.

A plan to buy land next to the Water Street transit hub to provide extra parking for a Kent County Courthouse annex has been set in motion, the Downtown Dover Partnership's planning committee was told Tuesday.

Delaware officials on Friday released the names of schools where free swine flu vaccinations will be distributed next week.

Delaware's Division of Public Health is investigating whether the death Monday of a 15-year-old New Castle County boy was related to swine flu, the agency said Friday.

DOVER -- The General Assembly tackles plenty of thorny issues -- tax increases, spending cuts, gay rights -- but when lawmakers try to regulate dogs it can come back to bite them.

The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory and a coastal flood watch for Sussex County starting today.

The Green, which has been the setting for public purposes since 1680, has been named by the American Planning Association as one of the "10 Great Public Spaces" for 2009.

State police are warning Kent County residents to lock their vehicles in the wake of a series of thefts from unlocked cars.

Declining to hear from a swarm of public officials and dozens of residents, Kent County Levy Court voted Tuesday night to direct its attorneys to make an offer to buy a 12,000-square-foot building near Camden as a site for an expanded Kent County Library.

Adam E. Pomales Jr., who confessed to driving the getaway car for two men accused of shooting a Dover man to death in front of his 12-year-old son, pleaded guilty Monday to a series of charges stemming from a robbery spree mounted after the September 2008 slaying.

Minutes before the start of a court hearing Friday, the Delaware Attorney General's Office withdrew a request for a judge to admonish opposing lawyers who made public a video showing a state prison inmate getting kicked by a guard.

A Kent County Superior Court jury failed to reach a verdict Friday on a first-degree murder charge against 25-year-old Tremein Hoskins of near Felton, who was accused of killing a 25-year-old Dover man in September 2008 with a shot intended for another man.

DOVER - Delaware State Police are looking for 15 year-old Iris Bamaca, of Dover, who has reportedly run away from home with her 20 year-old boyfriend.

In an escalation of a feud between groups from the Capital Park and Senate View neighborhoods, Brandon L. Beard, 25, of Dover, died of a gunshot intended for another man, a prosecutor told a Kent County Superior Court jury Tuesday.

Construction of the Kent County Courthouse annex remains on track for completion in July 2011, but the parking scheme for the expansion is unsettled.

Two early-morning shootings Monday in Wilmington began a new week with violence that officials say left three people hospitalized.

Nearly 30 artists from Delaware, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey were happy to pay $10 each to set up for the third and concluding Saturday of the 2009 Riverwalk Arts & Jazz Fest because of the money they were able to keep in their pockets.

A Bridgeville man died Friday of gunshot wounds after he stopped along a Kent County road to buy a dog, state police reported Saturday.

NASCAR fans are already flocking to Dover in anticipation of this year's second race weekend in the Capital.

Urged on by more than 50 volunteer firefighters in dress blues and whites, Kent County Levy Court voted unanimously Tuesday night to establish minimum street widths of 28 feet for major subdivisions.