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Police say the man then ran outside to the driveway, and the suspect threw him to the ground.

SEPTA officials are urging families to be proactive, to start planning now for how their children will get to and from school next month. ‘ All 55,000 students who ride SEPTA’s buses and trains will be affected by the agency’s self-described “doomsday” service cuts, according to Andrew Busch, SEPTA’s communications...

Another worker in the Adams County-based Plainville Farms animal abuse case has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges. State police have said workers “kicked, stomped and beat turkeys” at the company’s farms in Chester, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Perry and Union counties. Francisco Mitchell Lebron-Cruz, 45, of...

World War II veteran and longtime Elsmere resident Ray Firmani, whose life was chronicled and celebrated in the book Against All Odds: The Ray Firmani Story, has died. Firmani's biographer Mitch Topal confirmed the B-17 bomber pilot died on Sunday, July 21, 2025, at the age of 103. Firmani had...

Wilmington Police have taken 23-year-old Elyjah Elsayed into custody about a shooting that occurred on July 11. According to a report from Nixle, the incident took place late at night on East 24th Street, where a 37-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds and was later transported to the hospital in stable condition.

At 3:48 p.m., officers responded to Berlin Cross Keys Road and Sicklerville Road after a motorcycle traveling on Sicklerville Road collided with an SUV, Gloucester Township police said. The crash caused the motorcyclist to be ejected from the vehicle, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said....

A man is dead after being shot in New Castle, Delaware, on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson with the police department. The shooting happened on July 22 just before 4 p.m. in the area of Wilton and Stonebridge boulevards, police said. Officers were called to the scene for a report...

What are journalists missing from the state of Delaware? What would you most like WHYY News to cover? Let us know. He spent early years on a farm, as a plow horse. But when Tonka came to Delaware in 2004 at the age of 7, he began carrying a New Castle County police officer for the force’s mounted patrol unit.

A 91-year-old woman is being forced to leave her Upper Darby home after a real estate firm bought her home in a tax lien upset sale. It took 91-year-old Upper Darby resident Gloria Gaynor a lifetime to achieve the American Dream of owning a home. Now, suffering from dementia and...

A man's charges were upgraded to murder after a 78-year-old man later died of his injuries in December 2024.