(AP)- A federal court judge says the Sussex County Council must stop reciting the ... in the fatal motorcycle crash in Laurel Friday morning, has been arrested in Virginia. LAUREL, Del.- The Delaware State Police needs the public's help in finding the ...

Meanwhile, the Sussex County sheriff ... as "conservators of the peace" under Delaware's constitution of 1897, sheriffs are law enforcement officers with the authority to arrest people and make traffic stops. The attorney general's office has issued ...

Delaware has the third highest death-sentencing rate in the United States. In their study, five Cornell University law professors also allege ... at a higher rate than defendants in New Castle or Sussex counties. Prosecutors said that the ...

In addition to being one of the directors of the Sussex County Science Fair, I am also a medals judge at the Delaware Valley Science Fair. As head of the medals judges for 11th graders, the group picks from all of the first-place winners in 13 categories of science and the top 3 are sent with members of their families, all expenses paid, to the International Science Fair to compete.

The Sussex ... State Attorneys General opinions and decades of tradition, that sheriffs and their deputies in Delaware are not law enforcement officers, nor does the County believe they are empowered with arrest authority.” Georgetown, Del.,

The pair allegedly committed property crimes throughout Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee and Virginia ... The crime spree, which spanned several years, targeted homes in the unincorporated areas of Sussex County ...

GEORGETOWN -- A probation officer is on trial on charges he broke into a woman's home and beat her, following years of a friendship between the two that began when he monitored her teenage son's parole status. Cheryl Porter testified in Sussex ...

Ford, 57, of Milford, according to Delaware State Police. Theresa Tolomeo is charged with possession of a non-controlled prescription drug and Schedule II narcotic prescription drug and related offenses. She was released from jail on a $3,000 ...

The event, sponsored by the Governor's Office, the state Department of Health and Social Services, the Safety and Homeland Security Department, the Attorney General's Office, the federal DEA, and the Delaware Cancer Consortium, is intended to increase ...

The U.S. District Court for Delaware has ruled Sussex County Council must stop reciting The Lord's Prayer as each council meeting begins, a longstanding practice, because doing so bucks the Constitution's rule against government establishment of religion.

said current laws already allow for plenty of prison time for someone who burglarizes and robs an occupied home. "I think we have enough tools for the really bad people," Sussex County Superior Court Judge T. Henley Graves said. But Deputy ...

DOVER — Legislation to clarify the role of sheriffs in Delaware advanced in the House on Wednesday, hours after Sussex County Sheriff Jeff Christopher filed suit against county officials in Superior Court, alleging they've attempted to unlawfully strip him of his constitutionally granted powers of arrest.

Both are also near the boundaries of three counties: Dorchester and Caroline in Maryland and Sussex in Delaware ... Cannon, who was 70, was arrested and imprisoned in the Sussex County jail. She died before her trial. Johnson escaped capture.

A Sussex County judge who made advances toward a young attorney was ordered to leave his post, but not until after his pension is vested. Delaware Court on the Judiciary released a May 3 order against Family Court Judge John Henriksen that removed the judge from his job, effective Friday, Nov. 2 – one day after his term of office expires and his 12-year pension vests. After Henriksen steps down ...

GEORGETOWN, Del. (AP) — A federal court judge says the Sussex County Council must stop reciting the Lord's Prayer at the opening of meetings because it likely violates the Constitution.

Sussex County officials have released a 64-page report compiled for the General Assembly outlining why county council seeks a law clarifying the role of the county sheriff. “Sussex County officials have no intention to further the role of the Sheriff's Office, yet the ambiguity in the Delaware code limits the county's ability to resolve this situation,” the report states. “As a result ...

A Sussex County judge who made advances toward a young attorney was ordered to leave his post, but not until after his pension is vested. Delaware Court on the Judiciary released a May 3 order against Family Court Judge John Henriksen that removed the judge from his job, effective Friday, Nov. 2 – one day after his term of office expires and his 12-year pension vests. After Henriksen steps down ...

A judge was relieved of his duties this month for making advances to a female attorney and offering her advice on the handling of a case she was arguing before him. Delaware Court on the Judiciary released an eight-page order on May 3 that required Sussex ...

The Delaware House of Representatives passed a measure Thursday to create the new crime of home invasion. A conviction for the felony carries a mandatory prison sentence of 6 to 8 years.

Tours will start at the old schoolhouse, now home to Joey's Pizza, and turn around at the old jail. Schroeder, a Delaware Valley High School graduate, currently works at Home Depot and attends Sussex County Community College in New Jersey.

In its statement, the county said that opinions of state attorneys general and "decades of tradition ... Christopher, who filed the suit Wednesday, May 9, in the Delaware Superior Court, is requesting a declaratory judgment from the court to determine ...

Bennett was had a previous DUI from 2011 in Sussex County ... DUI can result in a jail sentence, suspension of your driver’s license and costly fines. It is especially important that a person facing a second DUI or DWI retains a Delaware DUI lawyer ...

Delaware State Police have arrested two Wilmington men in ... Carter was committed to the same prison in lieu of $8,000 bail.

A bill to establish home invasion as a crime unanimously passed the Delaware House May 17. If Gov. Jack Markell signs House Bill 277 into law, a perpetrator convicted of home invasion would face a minimum sentence of six years in prison. If the victim of the crime were a senior citizen, the minimum sentence would be seven years in prison. Subsequent offenses would carry an eight-year minimum ...

A federal court judge ruled that Sussex County Council must stop reciting the Lord’s Prayer as each council meeting begins because it violates the Constitution. • U.S. District Court Judge Leonard P. Stark’s opinion issuing a temporary ...

It is also illegal for Delaware residents to possess live white-tailed deer. Offenders receive fines of $250 to $1,000, as well as court costs, and may face up to 30 days in jail. Illegally held deer will also be removed by DNREC. If a genuinely injured or ...

UPDATED STORY 05.16.12:  The Delaware Senate Tuesday passed two competing home ... a second-time offender would get 25 years instead of life in prison. Senate Amendment 4, which was also added to the bill, clarifies that the person breaking ...

She died in jail in Sussex County. Kevin Brown, an adjunct history professor at Delaware Technical and Community College, had never heard the story of the Cannon-Johnson gang until he read Lies Across America in the late 1990s. "It's not feel good history.

GEORGETOWN -- The Food Bank of Delaware is halfway toward a goal of raising $2.8 million to feed more hungry children in Kent and Sussex counties and will ... Food Bank train people who recently left prison in food-service skills.