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Six Wyeth paintings fetch over $2 million at NYC auction
This image provided by Christie's auction house shows Newell Convers Wyeth's painting titled "Norry Seavey Hauling Traps Off Blubber Island," among 13 paintings by the famous Wyeth family of artists that have sold for just more than $2 million at auction in New York, Thursday, May 23, 2013. / ...
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New Castle County police welcome new mounted patrol horses
Red (from left) is 5 years old and stands 18.1 hands high (72.4 inches). He is done growing but will fill out. Royal is 3 years old and stands 17.1 hands high (68.4 inches) and is still growing. Buddy is 5 years old and is 18.2 hands high. He also will fill out. / New Castle County ...
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2 charged in Brandywine Hundred attempted burglary
Jaterran Copeland-Green, 18, of the 500 block of W. 37th St. in Wilmington, and Cardelle Hall, 18, of the first block of Springhouse Court in Brandywine Hundred, were arrested by New Castle County ...
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Man charged with stealing copper wire from irrigation systems
State police arrested two people early today and charged them with trying to steal copper wire from a farm irrigation system north of Little Creek. One of the suspects has been linked to earlier similar thefts in the Dover and Magnolia ...
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Appeals court hears arguments in Wilmington public housing gun case
Attorney Lauren Moak Russell, Wilmington Housing Authority Executive Director Frederick Purnell Sr. (center) and attorney Barry Willoughby exit the federal courthouse in Philadelphia after appeals arguments concluded this morning. / SEAN O'SULLIVAN/The News ...
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Pennsylvania State Police conducting child safety seat checkup today
The checkups are being done by appointment and may be made by calling Trooper Corey Monthei at (610) 268-2102.Certified technicians will assist parents with installation of child safety seats and often other information on best practices.The fire company is at 23 Firehouse Way in Avondale, off Pa. ...
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Teen who dragged trooper with car wont be charged
Chase Utley, who has been as injury-prone as anyone in the Phillies organization the last three seasons, finds himself on the 15-day disabled ...
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Wilmington battalion chief involved in crash was on way to gas leak
Fire official's car crashes, driver of other vehic...: One person was injured when his car was hit by a city fire official rushing to a house fire. UPDATE: The Wilm. Battalion Chief was released from Christiana Hospital after being treated for the effects of airbag deployment. ...
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Probationer faces drug charges
Officers arrived at the home of Karl Hannah, 48, in the first block of Stevenson Drive at about 10:15 p.m. for a curfew check. While there, a probation officer found 24.7 grams of crack cocaine in ...
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Woman hit by Jeep near Dover
Jenna C. Ritchey, 27, of Camden was driving a 2009 Jeep Compass southbound on Wyoming Mill Road just south of Riverside Road near Dover when she failed to negotiate a slight curve, entering into the shoulder. Leslie Ingram, who was loading flowers into the trunk of a 1996 Pontiac Sunfire that was legally parked on the side of the road, was struck in the arm by the ...
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Bridgeville man charged in Dover robbery
Dover police say Eric Lloyd, 20, of the 4000 block of Whitney Swamp Road, approached a 19-year-old in the area of Lamplighter Lane and Independence Boulevard at about 11 a.m. Wednesday and threatened the teen that he was armed with a handgun. He took the ...
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Police Dover man threatened state worker
A Dover man has been charged with harassment and terroristic threatening after Capitol Police say he was continuously calling and texting a female state ...
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Organization seeks boaters for maritime survey
Chase Utley, who has been as injury-prone as anyone in the Phillies organization the last three seasons, finds himself on the 15-day disabled ...
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Diamond stars are Athletes of the Week
SALISBURY — Logan Green of the Laurel softball team and Grant Donahue of the Stephen Decatur baseball team are The Daily ...
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Member takes first round lead at Colonial
Ryan Palmer hits his tee shot on the sixth hole during the first round of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial at Colonial Country Club on Thursday. / ...
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Mike Pretl Progressive groups received similar IRS scrutiny
In 40 years as a Maryland attorney, I have been pleased to create more than 75 nonprofit, tax-exempt corporations. I have represented nearly all of them pro bono (without fee). With few exceptions, all of these groups operate at the progressive end of the ...
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Opinion Prioritize safety in Memorial Day weekend fun
As the first holiday weekend of the warm-weather seasons dawns, it is sobering to think that not everyone who takes to the road or to the water is going to come home ...
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Blake Hundley Blakes Run for Boston raised more than $5000 for victims
Soon, I will leave Delaware and go to Massachusetts to deliver a donation of more than $5,000 that we raised at ...
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Hobby Lobby contests law
Customers are seen at a Hobby Lobby store in Denver. Hobby Lobby stores is challenging a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morining-after birth control pill. / ...
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Jobless benefits requests decline
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 23,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, a level consistent with solid job growth. The less volatile four-week average ticked down just 500 to 339,500, the Labor Department said Thursday. ...
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Tackle summers bummers of sunburn foodborne illness Lyme disease
Unfortunately, our summer memories often include being felled by a foodborne illness, getting a scorching sunburn or hobbling around because of painful ...
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Tiny implant clears way to glaucoma treatment
Dr. Sander Cohen, center, and his surgical staff remove cataracts and implant a tiny device called an iStent into the eye of a glaucoma patient in Moorestown, N.J. / Courier-Post ...
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Memorial Day honors the fallen
A flag the length of a football field is stretched and held up by visitors and residents on the beach off North Division Street in Ocean City for the Ocean City Flag Celebration on Memorial Day in 2012. / FILE ...
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Annual Milton event celebrates Del. wildlife
Children try their hand at fishing for horseshoe crabs during a previous Horseshoe Crab and Shorebird Festival. This year's event returns to Milton May 24-26. / File ...
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US Bishops Delaware Passage of Same-Sex Marriage Is Unjust
Archbishop Notes Children's RightsBy StaffWASHINGTON, D.C., May 08, 2013 (Zenit.org) - "The Delaware Senate passed an unjust bill that attempts to redefine marriage," said Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of the US bishops' Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage."The claim of this bill to redefine marriage is in vain; marriage ...
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Delware River expansion proves contraversial
The Delaware River dredging project remains controversial as states, including Delaware, and environmental agencies have filed lawsuits accusing the federal government of failing to conduct proper studies on the environmental effects of dredging the Delaware River’s main shipping channel while the real economic benefits of the project remain in doubt as well.
The Delaware River, although named after the state, passes through the territories of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while its tributaries connect even more US states to the waterway that had been, throughout much of the history of these states, an important trading route and link to the Atlantic. Read more
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