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New ways of fighting crime in Delaware’s biggest city

This spring, Governor Jack Markell helped the city of Wilmington launch “Operation Pressure Point,” a multi-faceted plan that ...

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

Your Cro-Magnon brain

When you do stupid things like choose immediate gratification over long term benefit, or fall for dumb advertising ploys, it may be becau ...

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Delaware soccer players inspired by team USA

Kids practicing at Kirckwood Soccer Club say they’re excited and inspired following the success of Team USA at the Women’s Wo ...

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National Interest

“She wanted to be herself”

Consider this a fond, belated farewell to Betty Ford.I rarely write about First Ladies, but Betty Ford, who died at 93 last Friday, warra ...

15 years ago

The final Harry Potter film begins showing at midnight

We’ve seen the posters and previews for months now. Still, it’s hard for everyone to believe that the series about a young wi ...

15 years ago

Are new owners of Sixers hamstrung by renting the Wells Fargo Center?

Comcast-Spectacor has reached an agreement to sell the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team to a group led by Wharton grad Joshua Harris ...

15 years ago

Tomalis wants internal investigations of schools’ test scores

Following questions of standardized test cheating in school districts across Pennsylvania, Secretary of Education Ronald Tomalis has orde ...

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Rehoboth Beach ranked one of nation’s best boardwalks

One of Delaware’s boardwalks has been named one of the best in the country. The Rehoboth Beach boardwalk ranked 6th in Natio ...

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First sign of Race Street Connector project to debut soon

It’ll be awhile before the Race Street Connector project is finished, but the first literal sign of progress will be up soon. < ...

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Superfresh could replace planned Northern Liberties Pathmark

When Pathmark owner Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. filed for bankruptcy late last year, plans to open the supermarket at a new deve ...

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Delaware girls (and boys) think USA women’s soccer win is ‘pretty cool’

A day after the USA women’s victory over France, kids at a Delaware soccer camp were practicing with an increased desire to be soccer s ...

15 years ago

DeLissio talks state taxes and jobs at Roxborough town hall

At her second in a three-meeting series, Pa. Rep. Pamela DeLissio held a town hall at Roxborough Memorial Hospital last night for her 194 ...

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Rutgers set to vote on 3 percent tuition hike

As the Rutgers University board prepares to vote on rising costs, students and faculty say there are spending cuts that could spare stude ...

15 years ago

New Jersey, Delaware boardwalks make National Geographic’s top 10

Atlantic City has the top boardwalk in the nation. This according to National Geographic, ...

15 years ago

Child abuse-prevention professionals say the job gets a little easier when they get together

Child abuse is never not in the news. Nationally, priest sexual abuse cases continue to make headlines. Locally, the ...

15 years ago

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