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The National Weather Service has confirmed that the tornado that touched down in New Castle County on Thursday afternoon was an EF-1, with peak winds of about 100 mph. The tornado touched down at 1:05 p.m. Thursday in the southern part of the Salem Woods neighborhood in Bear, damaging siding and uprooting trees. It may […]
A 19-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the September shooting death of 19-year-old Ryshine Holloman in Wilmington. Wilmington police say Holloman was shot around 3:16 p.m. on Sunday, September 13, in the 200 block of West 34th Street. Officers found him with a gunshot wound, and he later died. A New Castle […]
Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is warning residents about scam emails and phone calls from people pretending to be DNREC staff. The department says scammers are sending emails from three addresses that look official but are not: DNREC.Recruitment@delaware-gov.us, DNREC.Careers@delaware-gov.us, and DNREC.Hiring@delaware-gov.us. The fake addresses use “delaware-gov.us” instead of the department’s real “delaware.gov” […]
A clearer picture is emerging of the tornado that tore through New Castle County on Thursday afternoon, with damage now reported in Wilmington, Elsmere, and New Castle — and no injuries anywhere along its path. The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado Thursday and will have survey teams out Friday to pin down its exact […]
Friday, December 11 | 8 PM | The Queen, 500 N Market St, Wilmington, DE Save the date, Wilmington — Brooklyn’s finest lyricist Talib Kweli touches down at The Queen on Friday, December 11 at 8 PM. THE ARTIST Talib Kweli is one of the sharpest pens hip-hop has ever produced. He first made his […]
A tornado touched down in New Castle County on Thursday afternoon, the National Weather Service confirmed, as a severe storm swept through the Christiana area with hail, high winds and damage along a roughly four-mile path. The storm moved in just after 1 p.m., dropping pea-sized hail across the Newark area before a tornado warning […]
For five decades, it was where Delaware teenagers learned a trade — and this week, the excavators moved in. The original Paul M. Hodgson Vocational Technical High School in Newark is being torn down. Drone photos from the campus show excavators pulling the old building apart, wall by wall, with piles of cinder block and […]
A Delaware City man is behind bars after New Castle County Police say he tried to force his way into a Bear home early Tuesday morning — and then injured an officer during a struggle at the hospital. Officers were called to the 2000 block of Old Kirkwood Road in the Rolling Meadows community around […]
A 71-year-old Frankford woman was killed and three other people were hurt in a two-vehicle crash Monday morning in Millsboro, Delaware State Police said. The crash happened around 7 a.m. on November 9 on Laurel Road, just east of Lowes Crossing Road. Police said Kathleen Reed was driving a Chevrolet Equinox west on Laurel Road […]
Wilmington police have arrested a 57-year-old man after a hit-and-run crash left a 71-year-old pedestrian hurt Friday night. Officers with the Wilmington Police Department’s Special Operations Traffic Unit answered a call around 9:33 p.m. on November 6 to the area of West 4th and Hawley Streets, where they found the 71-year-old man, who had been […]
New Castle County Police have released new details about the arrest of a Wilmington man charged with unlawful sexual contact with a girl under the age of 12, and investigators say they believe there may be more victims. Police identified the man as 36-year-old Michael McCarthy. He was arrested Saturday at his home on the […]
New Castle County Police have named the man arrested in connection with a sexual contact case involving a young girl in Wilmington’s Woodland Heights neighborhood, and investigators say they believe there could be more victims. Michael McCarthy, 36, of Wilmington, was arrested after an incident on Saturday, November 7. Officers were called to the 1000 […]
