Delaware
Delaware 911 system adds live video streaming, photo sharing capabilities
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Delaware is upgrading its Enhanced 911 system to include features that will allow callers to stream live video, send photos and use real-time text translation during emergencies. These enhancements are designed to improve communication between callers and first responders, enabling faster and more effective emergency response.
With the upgraded system, 911 callers will be able to share images directly from their phones, stream live video and communicate through real-time translated text. The system includes TTY capabilities and is fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Authorities say these capabilities will help dispatchers better assess emergencies such as vehicle crashes, medical incidents and fire scenes.
Public demonstration of new E911 in Dover
The Dover Police Department is among the first in the nation to adopt the upgraded technology, according to state officials. Gov. Matt Meyer and Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security Secretary Joshua Bushweller will attend a demonstration of the system’s new capabilities at the Dover Police Department on April 17.
All municipalities are already connected to the Enhanced 911 system, and the state’s Public Safety Answering Points are expected to fully implement the new features by 2026.
How E911 calls are handled
The Enhanced 911 system automatically displays a caller’s location and phone number at a public safety answering point, which handles emergency calls in their designated coverage areas. Delaware operates nine PSAPs, each responsible for answering all 911 calls in their respective regions. To ensure timely response, the system requires PSAPs to transfer calls to the appropriate agency within 10 seconds.
Delaware voters first approved the creation of the Enhanced 911 system in 1988. It is funded through a 60-cent monthly surcharge on telephone lines, established by the state Legislature in 1994.
You can contact staff reporter Anitra Johnson at ajohnson@delawareonline.com.
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Who has the best pizza in Delaware? Is it Grotto or another shop?
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Ever tried a S’mores pizza? Bivouac Pizza, winner of the 2025 Delaware Food Truck Frenzy, whips up this dessert pizza at Delcastle Technical High.
The hunger games are returning to Delaware, where your favorite pizza spots from all three counties across the state will step into a saucy arena, armed with lots of cheese, and not a shred of fear.
It’s been nearly three fully baked years since readers crowned Cafe Napoli in Milltown as Delaware’s best pizza place in Delaware Online/The News Journal’s annual Munch Madness tournament in March 2023.
We’re not sure if another pizzeria is worthy of a seat on the mozzarella throne of glory because (once again) that’s not our call. It’s your job to vote and ultimately crown your cheesy champion.
We’re just here to count the votes, one slice at a time.
How does the tournament work for the best pizza in Delaware?
Readers will kick things off by filling out an easy survey below, which simply requires you to provide the name and city/town of the Delaware place that makes your favorite pizza.
From there, we’ll tally up the top 64 pizza contenders for this single-elimination showdown. Each week, pizza shops will be cut in half, based on reader votes. The bracket will look like this: Round 1 (64 contestants), Round 2 (32), Round 3 (Sweet 16), Round 4 (Elite 8), Round 5 (Final 4) and Round 6 (the winner).
Now, let’s paint the town red like Ragu.
Cafe Napoli is the reigning pizza champion in Delaware
This Milltown shop on Kirkwood Highway has been in the pizza game for over 30 years, and the pizzeria hangs its hat on authentic Napoletano cuisine and Southern Italian hospitality.
Cafe Napoli was founded by four brothers: Domenico, Antonio, Pasquale and Mario. They left Italy and decided to run a winning restaurant.
Although this pizza shop is defending its throne, one bite at a time, that doesn’t mean you should leave your guard down around their mozzarella sticks. Those bad boys are light, yet they’re deceptively filling.
In 2023, during their epic Munch Madness run, General Manager Tim Widdoes, who has worked at Cafe Napoli for 30-plus years (though you’d never guess it), told us the top pizza his customers dream about.
“Our most popular would probably be the chicken bruschetta. That’s our breaded chicken, homemade bruschetta, on a white garlic pizza, topped with a little bit of ranch dressing,” Widdoes said.
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The pie is on point like a Katniss arrow aimed straight at your appetite.
“People love that pizza.”
If you have an interesting story idea, email lifestyle reporter Andre Lamar at alamar@gannett.com. Consider signing up for his weekly newsletter, DO Delaware, at delawareonline.com/newsletters
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Delaware
New ChristianaCare collab aims to tackle health care gaps in lower Delaware
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Three area health care providers are teaming up to expand medical education and resources in central and southern Delaware.
ChristianaCare, BayHealth and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine announced on Feb. 18 a new partnership to establish a Delaware Collaborative Clinical Campus.
That partnership aims to expand a network of undergraduate medical education and attract more physicians to Kent and Sussex counties, locations known as “Medically Underserved Areas” with a history of shortages of primary care, dental care and mental health resources.
The news comes after ChristianaCare also announced plans for a $65.1 million health campus in Georgetown to fill similar service gaps on Feb. 11.
How will the Delaware Collaborative Clinical Campus operate?
ChristianaCare and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine have been longtime collaborators.
College students train at ChristianaCare facilities throughout New Castle County. And now, the Collaborative Clinical Campus expands that partnership by bringing Bayhealth into a “coordinated statewide training model of high-quality clinical rotations and academic mentorship,” ChristianaCare said in its announcement.
The program is scheduled to begin in July 2026.
Five third-year medical students will complete clinical rotations primarily in Kent and Sussex counties at both Bayhealth and ChristianaCare facilities, with additional ChristianaCare opportunities in New Castle County. Training covers a range of clinical settings and specialties, including primary care, obstetrics and gynecology and psychiatry.
These five students are Delaware Institute of Medical Education and Research students from Delaware, returning home for clinical training. However, this collaboration will open opportunities to all Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine students. The first cohort will join the 55 students already training at the Delaware Branch Campus at ChristianaCare.
Bayhealth Medical Center official Gary Siegelman said the new partnership “directly addresses our workforce needs in underserved areas,” in a statement.
Got a tip or a story idea? Contact Krys’tal Griffin at kgriffin@delawareonline.com.
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