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What are journalists missing from the state of Delaware? What would you most like WHYY News to cover? Let us know. Before Delaware artist Juan Santos has visitors look at a single painting in his latest exhibit, he asks patrons to do something else first. He requests that they open...

The City of Newark violated the Freedom of Information Act earlier this year when it denied a citizen activist access to minutes from closed-door meetings relating to the 2013 Data Centers LLC controversy, the Delaware Attorney General’s Office has ruled. Now, the city has notified the AG's office that it will not comp

Pennsylvania (WHP) — All Wawa locations are offering free hot coffee on Monday, July 20th in honor of the late Dick Wood - a member of the founding family and the company's former CEO and chairman. Wood died on July 10th at 88-years-old from old age in his home...

Craving a movie night with a side of nostalgia? Delaware County residents don’t have to travel far to find it. Pennsylvania is home to about two dozen operating drive-in theaters, the most of any state, and six of them sit in eastern Pennsylvania, writes Kalena Thomhave for The Keystone.

The biggest port operator on the Delaware River is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the second time in three years in an attempt to stop Delaware’s long-planned expansion of the Port of Wilmington. The post NJ, Philly port operator sues again to stop Delaware’s Edgemoor container terminal appeared first on S

CECIL COUNTY, Md. (WBFF) — A lightning strike that damaged gas tubing caused a basement fire at a home in Elkton on Saturday night, resulting in approximately $20,000 in damages, authorities reported. The Office of the State Fire Marshal said the fire was reported at 9:12 p.m. July 18...

Long before Marcus Hook was a refinery town, it was a pirate hideout. The Plank House, a centuries-old landmark along the Delaware River, still carries that history in its walls and in the legend of Blackbeard himself, reports Dave Edwards for 6abc. In the early 1700s, ships couldn’t stay at...

Delaware State Police are investigating a fatal crash in Newark.

A 60-year-old woman from West Chester was charged with attempted murder after shooting a person and threatening their life in Downingtown on Sunday, the Chester County District Attorney's Office said. According to the D.A.'s office, officers responded to the 200 block of Chestnut Street at some point on July 19...

HARRISBURG PA – Three of 10 restaurant liquor licenses that were put up for auction during June will be transferred by new owners from their current locations to sites in Montgomery and Chester counties, according to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. Top bids for the 10 ranged from $105,000...