Delaware

$130 million budget shortfall projected

Responding to slumping state revenues that could put the state in a $130 million hole by June 30, Gov. Ruth Ann Minner on Monday announced a statewide hiring freeze and a 7 percent midyear budget cut for all state agencies...

Inauguration queries deluge lawmakers

Jan. 20 event has Delawareans scrambling to witness history being made By ANGIE BASIOUNY • The News Journal • November 18, 2008 Kylen Small has the hottest ticket in town. The seventh-grader at Everett Meredith Middle School in...

Winterthur flock upholds tradition

Local wool industry traces lineage to Don Pedro, famous ram of E.I. du Pont By EDWARD L. KENNEY • The News Journal • November 18, 2008 The one-time nationally known ram with that fancy name lived and bred -- a lot -- at what is...

UD student sues over online gossip

By SEAN O'SULLIVAN • The News Journal • November 18, 2008 Want some juicy gossip? The lawsuit seeks to determine the identities of one or more anonymous posters on the Web site and wants damages from them for making allegedly...

DelTech license plate auction raises $10,100

Delaware Technical & Community College's specialty license plate auction came to an end Sunday as alumni, students, and employees placed bids on their favorite plate numbers, raising $10,100 for the school.

Frank Schoonover: An Illustrious illustrator

What would those tales of adventure and derring-do have been without the evocative work of Frank E. Schoonover? By KATHY CANAVAN • Special to The News Journal • November 18, 2008 An important Frank E. Schoonover oil will be on...

SA-214-2008: Counterfeit Official Checks - Artisans' Bank

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (also of interest to Security Officer) - Counterfeit official checks bearing the name Artisans' Bank are reportedly in circulation. - Artisans' Bank, Wilmington, Delaware, has contacted the Federal...

DE Officials Discuss Finances Early

21 hrs ago

By WMDT STAFF (WILMINGTON, DE -- WMDT) 11/17/2008 Delaware officials will meet Monday to discuss the states economic condition. The Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council was not supposed to meet until next month, but...

Chase Card Services Appoints Pilkington CEO for Canada

Chase Card Services Appoints Pilkington CEO for CanadaWILMINGTON, Del.DE-CHASE WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Chase Card Services, the credit card division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. [NYSE:JPM], appointed Andrew Pilkington...

Report Issues Grades For Racial Health Disparities

In the first official report to grade Delaware on racial health disparities, the state received failing grades for disparities in infant mortality, prenatal care and mortality due to AIDS-related causes, the Wilmington News...

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