Lieutenant Governor Matt Denn sponsored the 5th Annual Art Contest this year. More than 500 students participated and the finalists were honored this week in Dover.

Two men and a teen received recognition this month for helping lead police to suspects in a pair of unrelated cases dating back to 2008.

The 4th Annual Middletown BBQ Cook-off was held over the weekend at Frightland. Sixty teams from all over the state and the region competed in Delaware's only Kansas City BBQ Society-sanctioned competition. One team will now represent the First State at the Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational in Lynchburg, Tenn.

The only thing Christy Payne loves more than young-adult literature is helping young adults find the literature they love.

Townsend residents will soon be paying a little more – and a little more often – for mandatory trash service.

Two Sussex County men are facing drug charges after police reportedly found them carrying more than 700 bags of heroin during a traffic stop on Del. Route 1 near Odessa on Saturday.

Appoquinimink High School's varsity baseball coach is facing indecent exposure and harassment charges following an incident in Newark on Sunday.

Two local teens about to graduate high school are hoping to launch an under-21 dance club in the Middletown Square Shopping Center this summer.

A 37-year-old Middletown woman is facing drug charges after police allegedly found her with 445 bags of heroin during a traffic stop last week.

The third-annual 5K Run/Walk For Ryanwill raise money for a scholarship fund set up by the family of a 17-year-old Townsend resident who died in February 2011.

Townsend will hold its annual community yard sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.

A 22-year-old Maryland man is in serious condition following a multiple-vehicle crash on Del. Route 1, north of Odessa, early Thursday morning.

The 4th Annual State BBQ Competition will get underway Friday night for three days of meat-cooking and meat-eating good times. The winner of the event, sanctioned by the Kansas City BBQ Society, will go on to compete for top national honors in Tennessee.

A new aquarium is about to open, but an attention-starved crab has cut the power, threatening the lives of the new attraction’s inhabitants.

More than 200 area business leaders attended the Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce's Spring Luncheon on Thursday.

A 53-year-old Newark man died Wednesday after his SUV struck a tree northeast of Odessa.

New Castle County Councilman Bill Powers spent May 9 distributing grant funding to a trio of organizations in the Middletown-Odessa-Townsend area.

DelStar Technologies is expected to begin construction this week on $2.5 million warehouse expansion in Middletown that company officials say will allow them to add jobs and increase production.

Kelly Wright upset two-term incumbent Edna Cale and two other challengers Tuesday to win a five-year term on the Appoquinimink school board.