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The Holme Circle Civic Association last week unanimously voted to oppose a variance for a property at 8779 Ashton Road. The property owner, his lawyer and architect presented their case at the June 17 meeting. They are seeking to build three single-family homes on the property. Each house would be...

DNREC announced the winners for the 40th annual Delaware Youth Fishing Tournament that took place on June 6 at Blockhouse Pond in Sussex County, Akridge Scout Reservation in Kent County, and Lums Pond in New Castle County. Gabriel Alfaro of Newark was declared this year’s overall tournament winner, by catching...

Delaware State Police arrested a 15-year-old Wilmington resident who investigators say used TikTok to arrange a meetup before allegedly robbing a victim of an electric bike at gunpoint. A Wilmington teenager is facing multiple felony charges after Delaware State Police said he participated in an armed robbery that bega

A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged after police said he left the scene of a crash that killed two teens in Townsend, Delaware. According to the Delaware State Police, on Saturday, June 20, 2026, around 1 a.m., a 17-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, both from Townsend, Delaware, were walking with an elect

Lawmakers in New Castle County are still grappling with challenges that resulted from a once in decades property reassessment, that left a substantial gap between assessment of commercial and residential properties in the northern county. One of the solutions implemented for 2025-2026 allowed New Castle County school d

The two got into a verbal dispute, and police said the Deer Park man got out of the car, went into his trunk and took out a long silver knife.

A statue of Delaware founding father Caesar Rodney faces an undefined future, once its stint as part of a display in DC for America’s semi-quincentennial ends. The statue was removed from its location in Wilmington in 2020, along with a Christopher Columbus statue from Delaware Ave. They’re among numerous monuments rem

Summer in Chester County has its rituals, and few are more fun than finding a good spot on the grass to look up and watch the sky explode in the colors of red, white, and blue. This year, the county is delivering on all fronts, especially as the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, reports staff at 6abc.

Delaware's largest supplier of electricity is prepared to meet the heavy demand for power during the summer - and it's highlighting ways for customers to keep their costs under control. Recently at its Christiana area complex, Delmarva Power hosted safety demonstrations and discussed how it was getting ready to deal...

United Sports Training Center in Downingtown and YSC Sports in Wayne have a new owner in Indiana-based Capacity Sports Group, which operates youth sports programs and manages sports venues, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Both transactions while separate, were completed on April 13, and financ