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Slain mom of abandoned toddler remembered
Family and friends of Patricia Belizaire remembered her Thursday as someone who would give away her last dollar and as a doting mother who dreamed about her daughter's prom when the girl was just 1.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Tiny Tigers learn martial arts, priceless values
Local children practiced blocking, jumping and sparring this week as part of the Tiny Tigers class at ATA Black Belt Academy in Governor's Square in Bear.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Phone alert system helps find teenager
Information from a New Castle County resident who received an automated phone call about a missing teen Wednesday afternoon led authorities to the boy in the Richardson Park community, police said Thursday.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Carney selected for 'Red To Blue' support
Former Lt Gov John C Carney Jr, the Democrats' top candidate for Delaware's seat in the US House of Representatives, got some good news the day after Delaware Republican Michele Rollins confirmed she was considering the race.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
House bill tackles costs of playing dangerously
People who stage for-profit wrestling and martial arts contests may have to pay to play if legislation introduced Thursday in the state House becomes law.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Man shot in possible robbery attempt
A 42-year-old man was shot in Wilmington late Wednesday in what police believe was an attempted robbery.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Dover nightclub shooting wounds 3
A lone gunman opened fire outside a Dover nightclub early Thursday, wounding three people.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Markell lobbies for disaster aid
Governor Jack Markell sought federal aid Thursday for snow-blasted state and local budgets, asking the White House to declare February's back-to-back snowstorms an official disaster.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Ex-Delaware man held in terror sweep
Yemen counterterrorism authorities captured a former Ogletown man after he shot his way out of a hospital in the Middle Eastern country, where he was being held after a sweep of al-Qaida members, a country spokesman said Thursday.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Budget gap means no cleanup in Wilmington
The city has canceled its annual spring cleanup because it's trying to limit its year-end deficit to $8 million, officials said Thursday.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Day is done in Old New Castle
Decades-old event canceled for 2010; revival in the works
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Celebrating new life
Struggling Port Penn church sets out to save itself
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Anger over disability blamed for fatal crash
A paraplegic blamed his anger at losing the use of his legs when he apologized Thursday for driving a car that struck and killed a firefighter as she tended to an injured motorcyclist two years ago.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Builder pitching a bayside casino
Delaware Seashore State Park proposed site for venueTODAY'S POLL
delawareonline.com 2010-03-12
Man, 20, injured in city's 21st shooting
A 20-year-old Wilmington man was shot in the right buttock Tuesday night while walking on Monroe Street.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
Man pleads guilty in death of 16-month-old toddler
Kadeem B White, who had been charged with killing his girlfriend's 16-month-old toddler last year, pleaded guilty this week to second-degree murder by abuse, according to the Delaware Attorney General's office.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
DUI vigilance increased for St. Pat's
With St Patrick's Day a week away, state highway officials are urging the public not to overindulge and then get behind the wheel.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
Cathedral Choir School instrumental in children's lives
Students in the Cathedral Choir School of Delaware receive a full scholarship so they can learn to sing in the English cathedral tradition -- on a professional level.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
Holley, top aide convicted of fraud
A Wilmington businessman and his top assistant were convicted in federal court Wednesday on charges of tax evasion, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and failure to pay taxes for a years-long practice of paying workers under the table, underpaying...
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
O'Donnell challenging Castle for GOP nod
Conservative Republican Christine O'Donnell officially threw her hat into the ring for a third try at being elected to the US Senate on Wednesday, setting the stage for a Republican primary showdown against Rep. Mike Castle.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
Delaware to seek waiver to avoid ballot scramble
A new federal law that requires states to send ballots to military and overseas voters 45 days before the general election is causing headaches for states with September primaries -- states like Delaware.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
Tougher U.S. math, English standards proposed
Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform -- and more rigorous -- standards Wednesday as drafts of new national guidelines were released.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
AG Biden backs bill to aid child porn victims
Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden announced his support Wednesday for a bill designed to help victims of child pornography.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
Cape keeps theater tradition alive
Students, parents and administrators in the Cape Henlopen School District made what many believe is the perfect match when the district joined forces with Clear Space Productions to revive the school's dying theater program.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
Children's musical drafts special-needs painters
If you attend the upcoming children's play "It's Not Mean To Be Green -- The Musical," you'll see a special work of art created by about 60 special-needs students from Delaware.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
Gun lobbyist's bill draws fire
Bill could affect classrooms, day care centers, DART buses
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
DiGirolamo case still without a trial date
Almost one year to the day since he last appeared in court to face charges he beat his mistress to death and cut her body into pieces, Rosario DiGirolamo briefly stood before a New Jersey judge Wednesday -- but his trial still remains unscheduled...
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
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'Extreme season' seen for hurricanes
El Nino impact predictedTODAY'S POLL
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
Cooke case set for 2011 retrial
James E Cooke Jr was back in a Delaware courtroom Wednesday as the process to re-try him for the 2005 rape and murder of Lindsey Bonistall got under way.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-11
Group to rally against health care Saturday
Rally against health care reform set for Saturday
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Pennsylvania's 'Jihad Jane' indicted
A suburban Philadelphia woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been charged with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill someone,...
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Same-sex couples begin saying 'I do' in Washington
One bride wore a black suit, the other had on a white one with rhinestones and they walked down the aisle to Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" and kissed after the pastor pronounced them "legally married."
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Biden knocks Israeli plan for settlement
Vice President Joe Biden condemned an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem on Tuesday, a disagreement that tarnished a high-profile visit that had been aimed at repairing ties with the Jewish state and kickstarting...
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Groups plan workshop for citizen lobbyists
The Greenwatch Institute and the Delaware Coalition for Open Government will hold a workshop March 31 on ways to be an effective advocate in the General Assembly.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Seventh Delawarean dies from swine flu complications
Delaware's Division of Public Health announced Tuesday that a 47-year-old man died Sunday from swine flu.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Violence researchers enlist aid of residents
Leaders of the Wilmington Hope Commission say they think a new research initiative recently launched in the Southbridge and East Side communities can help develop better steps to understand crime in those neighborhoods and develop programs to combat...
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Sussex Tech district skips search in hiring Lathbury
Like Colonial, Sussex Technical School District's board didn't launch a search before recently naming Allen Lathbury Jr. its new superintendent.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
GOP's O'Donnell announcing run for U.S. Senate
Conservative Republican Christine O'Donnell is expected to formally kick off her third run for a seat in the US Senate today at 10:30 am at a rally just outside Wilmington.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Police re-arrest man on additional cocaine charges
A Philadelphia man who was arrested Sunday after trying to swallow 55 pieces of crack cocaine was arrested again Monday for alleged drug trafficking.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Police on the hunt for rabbit robber
The theft of a Fox Point family's pet white rabbit may have been motivated by the weekend opening of the movie "Alice in Wonderland."
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Suit filed against refuge farming
About a tenth of the nearly 16,000 acres at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge consists of woods, grassland, or farm fields that are planted with corn and soybeans by local farmers under contract with the US Fish & Wildlife Service.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Critters gone crazy
New regulations sought as Delaware wrestles with a wildlife problem
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Rollins shows interest in U.S. House seat
Greenville multimillionaire Michele Rollins confirmed Tuesday she may enter the race for Delaware's lone seat in the US House of Representatives, giving Republican Party leaders a shot at the candidate they say is "at the top of the wish list."
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Meney won't consult for Colonial
Amid residents' complaints, retiring superintendent backs down
delawareonline.com 2010-03-10
Around Delaware
A 27-year-old Claymont man was injured Monday morning in an industrial accident in Wilmington, city police said. The incident happened about 8:40 a.m.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-09
'Framing Frenzy' in Rehoboth Beach
Dogfish Head employee Alison Schrader secures a corner as about 80 volunteers join in a "Framing Frenzy" for Habitat for Humanity in the restaurant's parking lot Monday in Rehoboth Beach.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-09
Fisker plan becoming a reality, CEO says
Hybrid jobs here soon, he tells NCCo Chamber
delawareonline.com 2010-03-09
Police news
DRUG CHARGES: A 19-year-old Ellendale man was arrested on drug-trafficking charges after a traffic stop in Milford, police said. Curtis W. Fletcher was arrested Thursday after he was stopped in the 800 block of N. Du Pont Blvd. (U.S.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-09
Meney charged thousands to state card, records show
George Meney, the state's highest-paid school district superintendent, charged nearly $10,000 for restaurant meals in fiscal years 2007 through 2009, more than half of it at Arner's Restaurant near the district offices, state records show.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-09
Winterthur back in bloom
Winterthur Museum and Country Estate reopens today as the garden begins its spring display, with snowdrops, tommies and more in bloom.
delawareonline.com 2010-03-09
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