Latest Delaware Headlines
All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Delaware Police Investigate Carjacking After Intentional Collision
Apr 24 2018 // Delaware State Police are investigating a carjacking set up by an intentional motor vehicle crash. Authorities say the incident happened Wednesday night on state route 71 in Bear when a woman’s car was rammed from...
Three Men Sentenced in Delaware Murder-For-Hire Scheme
Apr 23 2018 // Three men found guilty in a murder-for-hire scheme in Delaware have been sentenced. News outlets report 46-year-old Ryan Shover, 53-year-old Michael Kman and 55-year-old Paul Disabatino are the last of four men sentenced...
Delaware Lawmaker, Wife Press Legal Fight Over Home Improvement
Apr 17 2018 // A Delaware lawmaker and his wife, who serves as Wilmington’s city treasurer, are continuing their fight in a long-running legal battle stemming from a home-improvement contract. A judge was to hear arguments Monday...
Delaware Judge Rejects Workers’ Comp for Paralegal’s Softball Injury
Apr 4 2018 // A Delaware judge says a paralegal injured while playing on his law firm’s softball team is not entitled to workers’ compensation. The judge ruled late last week that Delaware’s Industrial Accident Board...
Lawsuit Advances Over Rotten Beams in Delaware Townhouses
Mar 28 2018 // A lawsuit against Delaware’s largest private landowner and other companies is moving forward, saying “systemic concealed defects” are threatening to collapse the terraces on 63 waterfront homes that were...
Conviction Stands for Delaware Murder-for-Hire Mastermind
Mar 22 2018 // Delaware’s top court has denied the appeal of the man convicted of masterminding the murder-for-hire killings of his business partner and the partner’s wife. The News Journal reports the Delaware Supreme Court...
Delaware-Based Auto Warranty Firm Faces Consumer Fraud Probe
Mar 9 2018 // A Delaware-based auto service contract company is under investigation following complaints from customers around the country. The News Journal reports that a recorded message at American Standard Auto Protection in...
Insurers May Be on Hook for Dole Buyout Lawsuit Settlements
Mar 7 2018 // A Delaware judge says insurers may be on the hook for $190 million to settle two lawsuits stemming from a 2013 buyout in which Dole Food chairman and CEO David Murdock took the company private. In a ruling late last week,...
Insurance Company Gives Delaware $325K in Grants for Opioid Crisis
Mar 1 2018 // An insurance company has given four Delaware organizations $325,000 in grants to combat the state’s opioid crisis. The News Journal of Wilmington reports Highmark Delaware President Tim Constantine announced the...
Indiana Testing Whether Smelter Workers Expose Their Kids to Lead
Feb 13 2018 // Health officials are testing lead levels in the blood of children whose parents work at a central Indiana lead smelting plant amid concerns those workers are tracking lead home on their clothing, exposing their kids to the...
National Guard Helping After Chemicals Found in Delaware Town’s Wells
Feb 13 2018 // Delaware Governor John Carney has authorized the National Guard to assist residents of a southern Delaware town after the discovery of high levels of toxic chemicals in municipal wells. Authorities said that the Guard has...
Man Convicted of Murder-for-Hire Scheme in Delaware
Feb 5 2018 // A man has been convicted in a murder-for-hire scheme in Delaware. The state’s justice department says a jury has convicted Ryan Shover of York, Penn., of first-degree murder and other charges in the 2013 slaying of...
Former Genitrix Board Members, Investors Not Liable Under Mass. Wage Act
Feb 5 2018 // The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (SJC) has ruled two former board members and investors in a limited liability company are not liable for failing to pay the LLC’s former president, in a case that the SJC...
Delaware Deputy Insurance Commissioner Crane to Leave State Service
Jan 23 2018 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro has announced that Deputy Commissioner Mitch Crane will end his service to the state of Delaware on February 16, 2018. Crane has served as Commissioner Navarro’s...
Delaware Sues Opioid Manufacturers, Distributors Over Epidemic
Jan 22 2018 // Delaware on Friday became the latest state to file a lawsuit accusing corporations of helping fuel the national opioid epidemic, suing a wide range of companies involved in making, distributing and selling prescription...
Former Genitrix Board Members, Investors Not Liable Under Mass. Wage Act
Jan 8 2018 // The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (SJC) has ruled that two former board members and investors in a limited liability company are not liable for failing to pay the LLC’s former president, in a case that the...
Multiple Homes Damaged in Delaware Fire
Dec 27 2017 // Multiple homes have been severely damaged by fire in Delaware. News outlets report a Monday night fire in Slaughter Beach left at least two houses destroyed, and caused damage to multiple others. An assistant state fire...
Delaware Panel Continues Talks on Legalized Pot
Dec 5 2017 // A state panel formed to consider issues surrounding the legalization of recreational marijuana is resuming its work this week. Wednesday’s meeting of the task force will focus on public safety and criminal justice...
Terminix Fined $9.2M for Pesticide Use that Poisoned Delaware Family
Nov 29 2017 // A pest control company will pay more than $9 million in criminal fines tied to the use of a banned pesticide that sickened a Delaware family on vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2015. The News Journal of Wilmington...
Insurers Asked to Pay $90 Million to Settle Shareholder Claims Over Fox News Sexual Harassment
Nov 21 2017 // Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. has reached a $90 million settlement of shareholder claims arising from the sexual harassment scandal at its Fox News Channel, which cost the jobs of longtime news chief Roger Ailes and anchor...
