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Newark police announced Monday that two teenagers have been arrested and indicted in connection with the Halloween night shooting on East Main Street that left seven people wounded. Police Chief Mark Farrall said a 17-year-old from North East, Maryland, and an 18-year-old from Wilmington were identified as the two people who fired guns around 11:11 […]

A 36-year-old man has been charged with felony unlawful sexual contact with a child under 12 after police say he touched a young girl inappropriately during a gathering in the Woodland Heights community. New Castle County police said the incident happened Saturday, Nov. 7, at about 8:45 p.m. in the 1000 block of Wagoner Drive. […]

Newark police will give the public its first update in nearly a week on the Halloween night shooting near the University of Delaware, with a news conference scheduled for 2 p.m. today at Newark’s Municipal Building. The shooting happened late on Halloween night, Oct. 31, at a large party in the 100 block of East […]

Arthur Lewis Kee, who spent nearly half a century behind bars after kidnapping and raping a woman while out on a prison furlough, has died in state custody. Kee was 32 in July 1978 when he left the Plummer House work-release center in Wilmington on an authorized weekend furlough. During that weekend, he kidnapped and […]

Heads up, New Castle County drivers — the St. Georges Bridge is about to get a lot harder to cross. Starting Monday, November 9, the bridge closes to southbound traffic for maintenance, and that shutdown is expected to last about three weeks. The Army Corps says the work will close one direction at a time: […]

Delaware and Maryland just scored a big win in federal court — and it protects more than $1.1 million in public safety funding for the First State. A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the Trump administration broke the law when it tried to tie federal law enforcement grants to how much states […]

New details have emerged in the torture and robbery of an 81-year-old Delaware man inside a home in Elkton, Maryland — including that a suspect used a marker to write the combination to the victim’s home safe on the man’s forehead. According to the Cecil County Sheriff’s Office, the victim traveled to a home on […]

An 81-year-old Delaware man was tied to a chair, cut with a knife, and robbed inside a home in Elkton, Maryland, on Wednesday morning after going there to meet a woman he had connected with on Facebook, according to the Cecil County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, November 4, to the unit […]

Ellendale Mayor Samuel Noto is speaking out for the first time since the Halloween night shooting that killed 17-year-old Love Cannon of Seaford and left eight other young people hurt. The shooting happened around 10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31, in a field off Old State Road, just outside the town limits. Cannon was the […]

Delaware’s two Democratic federal incumbents were projected to win reelection on Tuesday night, according to ABC News projections reported by 6ABC. In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Chris Coons was projected to defeat Republican challenger Mike Katz, earning a third full term. With 99 percent of the expected vote reported, Coons led with about 64 […]

A Tuesday night shooting in Wilmington left one man dead and two women hospitalized, city police say. Officers responded to the 2300 block of Jessup Street at about 8:49 p.m. on November 3, where they found three people suffering from gunshot wounds. A 27-year-old man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died […]