Kent County News

DOVER , Del.- Delaware State Police in Kent County are searching for two fugitives wanted on unrelated crimes.

Next week, we celebrate Thanksgiving and enter the holiday season, a time to reflect on being grateful and imparting goodwill toward those less fortunate.

In a 90-minute ceremony filled with patriotism Wednesday, Chapter 850 of Vietnam Veterans of America dedicated the Kent County Vietnam Memorial -- a tribute to 27 Kent countians who gave their lives in what they called an unpopular, little-understood war.

A flooded section on Route 13 is causing backups in Salisbury, major routes in Worcester County are closed, and in Delaware, more than 50 roads are impassable due to high water.

Storm brought waves the 'height of a three- or four-story building,' resulting in seven deaths in state By SEAN O'SULLIVAN * The News Journal * November 14, 2009 For many, the storm by which most others are measured in Delaware is the nor'easter that hit the state's coast from March 6 to March 9, 1962.

For the second time this year, the Delaware Supreme Court has found that a person legally can be removed from the state's sex offender registry -- implicitly finding that the registry is not a permanent life sentence without exception and that the registry statute does not overpower all other state laws.

A 48-year-old Hartly man has died of injuries suffered in a single-vehicle wreck in Kent County.

The Beebe Medical Center board of trustees announced Dr. Paul Cowan, chief of the hospitala s Emergency Department, and Dr.

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.