Effective July 1, the University of Delaware College of Marine and Earth Studies became the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).The change results from the alignment of UD's Department of Geography with the College of Marine and Earth Studies.

For some children, summer vacation marks the beginning of trips to the beach and pool, while for others it’s the end of access to the free and reduced-price school lunch program.   

    David Harris may be retiring from Middletown High School, but not from his musical life.

Purple Sage Herbs & Gifts offers many essentials among the herbal tea and gift world, but now a new ingredient has been added to expand the store’s essence.

See what's happening in local churches throughout the next few weeks.

Rep. Longhurst’s legislation would protect seniors by giving online access to registry.

Claude McAllister, principal of Everett Meredith Middle School, and Eileen McAllister, director of curriculum for the Appoquinimink School District, said “goodbye” to the district July 1, as they traded in their teaching certificates for passports.

Energy efficiency and conservation are popular buzzwords, but if the House of Representatives and Gov. Jack Markell follow the Senate’s lead, utilities and customers would have to cut back their power consumption 15 percent by 2015.
 

One road may be ending for Donna Mitchell, but another path is opening up.

    “I didn’t want to come here, until I got here,” J.B. Bridge, a 13-year old Middletown resident who participated in the Camp New Hope program, said. “Everyone is friendly and they help me talk about it [his loss]. It is an amazing experience.”

  On June 29, detectives from the Delaware State Police Major Crimes Unit arrested Middletown High School business teacher Robert R. Schumacher, 39, of Clayton, for 10 counts of fourth-degree rape.
 

$3 billion spending plan balances $800 million shortfall.

The Delaware State Police announces today the retirement of the Superintendent of State Police, Colonel Thomas F. Mac Leish, effective Wednesday, July 1.

    Join the Biggs Museum in Dover for several children’s educational programs to be offered in August.

     Opening day for the Bear Babe Ruth League was predictably chaotic with hundreds of youngsters and their families arriving for the first day of the baseball season.