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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. During the launching of a newly revived production of “Phantom of the Opera” at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore this week, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber popped up to Wilmington to indulge in his other...

Three people were hurt, including a woman who was trapped inside her car for nearly one hour, after a crash in New Castle County on Tuesday night, according to the Office of Emergency Medical Services. The crash happened just after 11 p.m. on Nov. 11 at Old Baltimore Pike and...

Two Wilmington men are in custody following a violent home invasion and pursuit that unfolded Tuesday afternoon in Kent County. A third suspect remains at large as investigators continue to piece together the incident. Shortly after 1:00 p.m. on November 11, Delaware State Police were called to the 100 block...

Detectives from the New Castle County Division of Police have arrested 25-year-old Fatima Chambers-McKnight of Wilmington following an investigation into a shooting. Officials said on Sunday, November 9, 2025, just after 10 p.m., patrol officers were dispatched to the unit block of Court Drive in the Greenview at...

The crash happened around 5:36 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9, after West Deptford police responded to PNS Gas and Food Mart for a report of a vehicle “being operated by two intoxicated men,” Gloucester County Prosecutor Andrew Johns said. Officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver, Steve...

The incident began on Wednesday, Nov. 5, when the victims were followed from Academy Park High School by 34-year-old Lashay Simpson-Sheppard, 18-year-old Dashay Sheppard, and their juvenile daughter, according to the Sharon Hill Borough Police Department. The trio exited their vehicle in the 1100 block of Chester...

A man and a woman are wanted after they allegedly stole a pizza from a delivery person in South Philadelphia on Sunday, according to the police department. The robbery happened just before 1:30 a.m. on the 1200 block of Wharton Street as the pizza delivery person was looking for the right address, police explained.

Three Philadelphia schools were locked down after a teen was shot down the street from Abraham Lincoln High School.

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Wilmington has passed an ordinance that will require city council to approve certain appointments made to the board of directors for the city’s Land Bank – an organization that has faced criticism in recent years over claims of lack of transparency and financial mismanagement. The post Wilmington passes new...