
Delaware
Delaware electors beam with pride as they cast votes for Joe Biden
Even though the ballots signed Monday don’t play a deciding role in the outcome of the election, they are a point of pride for the three electors and voters in the state.
1 month ago
Wilmington Code Purple shelter shifts to winter-long hotel stay
Instead of a temporary shelter only opened on super cold nights, Friendship House plans to move those experiencing homelessness into a former hotel all winter long.
1 month ago
First batch of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine could reach Delaware ‘within the next few days’
Delaware could receive more than 8,700 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine and begin distribution to residents “within the next few days,” per health officials.
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Brandywine Valley SPCA seeks families for shelter dog holiday sleepovers
The shelter hopes that, as dogs enjoy the holidays in the comfort of foster homes, it can gain insights that will help the animals find forever families.
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Delaware offers naloxone through mail order as overdose deaths climb
In an effort to reverse the state’s overdose death rate that continues to climb, the state is offering to mail out the OD-interrupting drug naloxone.
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Police: Delaware officer shot, Pennsylvania fugitive killed
Authorities say a Delaware police officer was wounded and an attempted murder suspect from Pennsylvania shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire at a motel in Delaware.
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In-person performance is the ‘best Christmas gift’ Delaware choir can give
Students at the Choir School of Delaware return to the stage at Winterthur Museum for their first live performance together since the start of the pandemic.
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Listen 4:02‘Combat fatigue’ for Del. caregivers as COVID-19 hospitalizations at all-time high
Nurses, hospital directors and public health officials worry that the growing number of patients could overwhelm the system and caregivers.
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Listen 2:07Del. Gov. Carney announces 10 p.m. curfew for businesses, zero-tolerance enforcement policy
The decision comes one week after the governor announced a stay-at-home advisory and a one-month pause on in-person learning starting Monday, Dec. 14.
2 months ago
Wilmington to Washington connection increases with new minor league baseball alignment
Riding Joe Biden’s coattails to D.C., Delaware’s only minor league baseball team, the Wilmington Blue Rocks, has a new parent club: the Washington Nationals.
2 months ago
Funding questions remain amid new effort to preserve open space in northern Delaware
Increasing development has long been an issue in Delaware’s most populous county. Now New Castle County leaders have new guidance on how to better preserve open space.
2 months ago
Hunter Biden facing federal investigation over ‘tax affairs’
Hunter Biden has long been a target of President Donald Trump and his allies, who have accused him of profiting off his political connections.
2 months ago
Del. coronavirus hospitalizations set record high, expected to keep growing
The previous peak was 337 in late April, but the number of people needing hospital beds had dropped to 29 by late August. Now there’s 338 COVID-19 patients in the hospital.
2 months ago
Amtrak completes construction of third track between Wilmington and Newark
Rail passage through northern Delaware has long been hamstrung by a two-track bottleneck. The third track will improve train service and speed, officials said.
2 months ago
New focus for ‘Delaware Day’ holiday tells history of enslaved people
Instead of celebrating Delaware’s five founding fathers who signed the Constitution, this year’s focus shifts to four enslaved Black Delawareans and an abolitionist.
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