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Education Related Funds Awarded to Former Foster Youth
Date Posted: September 4, 2024
Improper Ambulance Service Payments Result in $363K Penalty Against Highmark
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The Mezzanine Gallery to Exhibit Julieta Zavala’s “Mercado Kitsch México”
Date Posted: September 3, 2024
Delaware Confirms Initial Cases of West Nile Virus in a Human, Horses for 2024
Date Posted: August 30, 2024
Family Emergency Preparedness Day on September 14 for National Preparedness Month
Date Posted: August 30, 2024
Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Weekend Coming to Killens Pond State Park Oct. 4 to 6
Date Posted: August 30, 2024
Drive Safely as Kids Head Back to School
Date Posted: August 30, 2024
Suspect Identified in a Hit-and-Run Incident Involving a Golf Cart
Date Posted: August 30, 2024
Governor Carney Signs Legislation to Address Food Deserts
Date Posted: August 29, 2024
Governor Carney Orders Lowering of Flags
Date Posted: August 29, 2024
DE, AR, PA, CA, TX, WI and 25 Other States Announce Settlement to End Interstate Unclaimed Property Litigation
Date Posted: August 28, 2024
DNREC Awards Contract Replace Bancroft Bridge
Date Posted: August 28, 2024
DOJ secures life plus ten years for deadly gun offender
Date Posted: August 28, 2024
Summer Enrichment Programs Benefit Delaware Students
Date Posted: August 28, 2024
Delaware’s 2024/25 Hunting Season Just Around the Corner
Date Posted: August 28, 2024
DNREC to Reopen The Point at Cape Henlopen State Park Sept. 1
Date Posted: August 26, 2024
Gov. Carney, First Spouse, Sen. Coons, Sec. Holodick, Pritchett Family Open Doors at New Maurice Pritchett Sr. Academy
Date Posted: August 23, 2024
Delaware Waterfowl and Trout Stamp Art Winners Chosen
Date Posted: August 22, 2024
Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Arrests Woman Posing as Nurse
Date Posted: August 22, 2024
Delaware State Fire Commission Announces Groundbreaking Ceremony
Date Posted: August 21, 2024
Bridgeville Couple Charged with Animal Cruelty
Date Posted: August 20, 2024
Governor Carney Orders Lowering of Flags
Date Posted: August 19, 2024
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over National Enforcement
Date Posted: August 16, 2024
Governor Carney Signs Legislation Supporting Safe Communities
Date Posted: August 15, 2024
Governor Carney Orders Lowering of Flags
Date Posted: August 15, 2024
Delaware State Parks Hunting Permits Now on Sale
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Date Posted: August 14, 2024
Newark Fire
Date Posted: August 13, 2024
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Date Posted: August 13, 2024
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Date Posted: August 9, 2024
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Scam Alert: Division Of Revenue Warns Taxpayers Of Fraudulent Letters
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The Office of Marijuana Commissioner (OMC) to Begin Accepting License Applications on August 19, 2024
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Governor Carney, Federal Delegation, General Assembly and Community Celebrate Investments in Kingswood Community Center
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Date Posted: August 7, 2024
State Releases Guidance on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Classrooms
Date Posted: August 7, 2024
Delaware Division of the Arts Announces First Round of Grants in Support of Arts Projects for FY2025
Date Posted: August 7, 2024
Delaware State Housing Authority Introduces Housing Stability Program
Date Posted: August 7, 2024
DNREC Opens Doors to Environmental Careers With New Internship Program
Date Posted: August 7, 2024
Delaware Tourism Office Launches the Tournaments, Events, and Athletic Meets Sponsorship (TEAMS) Program
Date Posted: August 5, 2024
Governor Carney Announces Appointments to State Board of Education
Date Posted: August 2, 2024
USACE and DNREC Sign Agreement for Bayshore Beaches
Date Posted: August 1, 2024
DMV Introduces New Chatbot, Della
Date Posted: August 1, 2024
Scuse Honors UD’s Dr. Mark Isaacs at Delaware State Fair for Service to Agriculture
Date Posted: August 1, 2024
DNREC Sets Information Meetings for Draft State Energy Plan
Date Posted: August 1, 2024
Early Childhood Professionals to Earn up to 12 College Credits for CDA under New Agreements
Date Posted: July 31, 2024
DNREC Announces Opening of New Boat Ramp at Records Pond near Laurel
Date Posted: July 31, 2024
Grants to Support Rural Education Achievement Programs
Date Posted: July 30, 2024
Delaware’s First 2024 Evidence of West Nile Virus Detected in DNREC’s Sentinel Chickens
Date Posted: July 26, 2024
Governor Carney Honors DNREC’s 2024 Young Environmentalists, Youth Anglers at Delaware State Fair
Date Posted: July 25, 2024
DelDOT Announces EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Award
Date Posted: July 24, 2024
Health Equity Institute of Delaware Offers Training to Clinical and Public Health Workers
Date Posted: July 24, 2024
Cape Henlopen State Park Community Workshop to be Held July 31
Date Posted: July 24, 2024
Delaware Tourism Office to Reopen the Sports Tourism Capital Investment Fund
Date Posted: July 24, 2024
Governor Carney Signs House Bill 125
Date Posted: July 23, 2024
Commissioner Navarro Launches Office of Long-Term Care Insurance
Date Posted: July 23, 2024
Use Extreme Caution Traveling through Work Zones
Date Posted: July 22, 2024
DSHA Celebrates $500 Million in Mortgage Financing with Discover Bank, Launches New Mortgage Products
Date Posted: July 22, 2024
DNREC Sinks Two Vintage Vessels on Delaware Reef Site 11, ‘The Redbird Reef,’ to Enhance Recreational Opportunities
Date Posted: July 22, 2024
AG Jennings takes action against financial adviser for charging unreasonable fees
Date Posted: July 19, 2024
Fire Commission Releases New Updates for EMS Protocols
Date Posted: July 19, 2024
DOJ secures significant prison time for habitual shoplifter turned robber
Date Posted: July 18, 2024
Application Period for Tree-Planting Project Funding Open
Date Posted: July 18, 2024
DNREC Highlights Boating Safety with New Life Rings at Woodland Beach
Date Posted: July 17, 2024
Volunteers Needed to Clean Up the Coast
Date Posted: July 16, 2024
DPH Urges the Public to Attempt to Reunite Stray Pets
Date Posted: July 16, 2024
Box Tree Moth Found at Private Residence in Kent County, Delaware
Date Posted: July 15, 2024
DNREC Unveils Delaware’s First Publicly Available All-Terrain Wheelchair
Date Posted: July 12, 2024
Delaware Students Excel at National STEM Conference
Date Posted: July 12, 2024
Grants to Support Students Experiencing Homelessness
Date Posted: July 12, 2024
DOJ secures lengthy prison sentence for violent gun offender
Date Posted: July 11, 2024
DNREC Again to Offer Popular ‘Life in the Bay’ Educational Seining Program for Families of All Ages
Date Posted: July 11, 2024
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Date Posted: July 10, 2024
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Date Posted: July 10, 2024
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Governor Carney Announces Selections to Delaware Women’s Hall of Fame for 2024
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AG Jennings launches portal to help businesses prepare for Personal Data Privacy Act enforcement
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Free and Reduced-Price Meal Policy: Annual Announcement
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Future Health Professionals Bring Home Honors
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Date Posted: July 1, 2024
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Date Posted: July 1, 2024
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Date Posted: July 1, 2024
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Date Posted: June 30, 2024
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What to know about jury duty in Delaware
Here are some tips and information about what to do when you receive a jury summons in the mail in Delaware.
A lawsuit seeking to represent all people locked up by Delaware claims that prisoners are routinely left to “marinate” in a high-concentration pepper spray.
The lawsuit filed May 7 in Delaware Court of Chancery seeks an injunction barring correction officials from using the spray until leaders enforce rules the lawsuit says require staff to decontaminate prisoners after they are targeted.
In interviews, state prisoners have frequently described officers’ use of so-called OC spray, a more concentrated form of pepper spray only available to law enforcement, as cruel. Prisoners say the spray is deployed unnecessarily, recklessly, frequently and causes intense burning on the skin and through the respiratory system.
“Imagine taking a glass bottle, smashing it up and grinding it up and snorting that up your nose, then times that by 1,000,” said a former prisoner, William Davis, describing being sprayed during a previous interview about a similar use‑of‑force lawsuit involving Sussex Correctional Institution. “I felt it burn for days.”
Records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show OC spray — short for oleoresin capsicum — is used hundreds of times a year and is a frequent issue in Delaware prison lawsuits. The new ACLU lawsuit seeks class-action status on behalf of all Delaware prisoners and focuses on what happens after someone is sprayed.
The lawsuit claims officers routinely ignore training, policy and clear health risks by failing to properly flush and clean people after using OC spray. It argues the practice violates Delaware’s constitutional ban on “cruel” punishment.
Prisoners allege they were sprayed while handcuffed, naked or already subdued, including one who said officers sprayed him through his cell door while he was locked inside, and another who said he was forced during a strip search to touch his genitals and then his mouth after being sprayed.
In each of these episodes, the lawsuit states that prisoners were not properly decontaminated, some were left unattended, returned to a contaminated cell, left in clothes drenched in spray and some were not allowed to shower for a day or more after.
“Refusing to decontaminate prisoners is cruel because it subjects them to hours of needless suffering. Prolonged exposure is also potentially deadly,” the lawsuit states.
Delaware Department of Correction officials did not respond to requests for comment.
The allegations of the lawsuit are built partially on declarations from eight named plaintiffs in Delaware prisons. Additionally, it leans on video and deposition evidence from two other excessive force cases the ACLU is litigating on behalf of Delaware prisoners.
In those other cases, several officers have testified in depositions that they had not decontaminated individuals they sprayed and were unaware if others had, the new lawsuit states.
The lawsuit also cites Department of Correction training materials turned over in other lawsuits. Policy and training documents outline that OC spray is only to be used when no reasonable alternative is available, not as retaliation or punishment and in short bursts from a safe distance.
A training presentation describes the health risks of OC spray and says sprayed individuals should be moved to fresh air, assessed for medical conditions and repeatedly flushed and wiped to decontaminate them.
It notes that people who have been sprayed must be monitored. It underscores these instructions with a red skull and crossbones.
Other litigation: New lawsuit claims excessive force used by Delaware officers during September prison raids
In interviews, prisoners have reported that officers would “empty the can” in long bursts directed closely at their face. The named plaintiffs in the new lawsuit include asthmatic individuals who said they were denied their inhaler after being sprayed.
Besides pain, OC spray can cause difficulty breathing, gagging, heart distress and blindness. It can also induce a feeling of suffocation and helplessness, according to a department training presentation. Failure to decontaminate can cause blindness, respiratory failure and skin conditions, the lawsuit states.
If sprayed too close, the OC molecules can cause what’s known as “hydraulic needling of the eyes” where the spray causes lacerations, the complaint states, noting that multiple prisoners in other states have died after being sprayed.
The lawsuit also claims that officers deploy OC spray in numerous ways, which include a grenade, fogger, spray, muzzle blast rounds, as well as pepper balls fired from a weapon similar to a paintball gun.
One of the named plaintiffs was shot numerous times by a pepper ball gun, rupturing the globe of his right eye. A separate lawsuit filed on behalf of that prisoner was dismissed because he didn’t address written complaints about the episode through prescribed channels inside the prison.
Rather than seeking damages for federal constitutional violations, the lawsuit asks only for an injunction forcing changes to decontamination practices. And instead of following the typical federal-court path for prisoner-rights cases, it was filed in Delaware’s Court of Chancery — the state’s business court, where cases tend to move more quickly.
It names Department of Correction Commissioner Terra Taylor as its lone defendant, claiming that the department has knowingly failed to follow its own policy regarding the spray’s use.
It also cites a deposition given by Taylor in other litigation in which she states there is no specific process for decontaminating those targeted with OC, that she hasn’t taken any steps to require officers to do so, and that she doesn’t believe there is an obligation to do so.
Contact Xerxes Wilson at (302) 324-2787 or xwilson@delawareonline.com.
Thursday, May 7, 2026 9:09PM
WILMINGTON, Del. (WPVI) — A third victim has died following a March shooting in Wilmington, Delaware.
Police identified her on Thursday as 37-year-old Gina Tiberi.
She was one of four people shot when a gunman opened fire on North Adams Street on the afternoon of March 24.
A 19-year-old and a 21-year-old died shortly after the shooting.
Tiberi was initially critically wounded along with a 36-year-old man.
Authorities have not announced any arrests or a possible motive.
Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact Detective Brendan Shea at (302) 576-3649.
You can also provide information to Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-Tip-3333 or Delawarecrimestoppers.com
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John Williams from ‘Star Wars’ hops on album by Delaware’s Calidore
The Calidore String Quartet, from University of Delaware, landed iconic “Star Wars” composer John Williams on their 2026 album “American Tapestry.”
A Delaware bill creating a film production tax credit cleared its first hurdle May 6, advancing out of the House Revenue & Finance Committee.
Several states offer film and television production tax credits and other incentives to lure projects, often to boost jobs, tourism and visibility.
Delaware does not – at least for now.
The proposal mirrors a recommendation in Delaware’s 5% operational spending growth and accompanying revenue plan, released alongside Gov. Matt Meyer’s proposed fiscal year 2027 budget, and would put the state in line with most of the country.
What does the bill do?
Backed by House Majority Leader Kerri Evelyn Harris, this House bill would create a new film production tax credit for the First State.
Delaware remains one of a few states that does not already have a film tax credit or a similar incentive in place, according to the Dover Democrat.
This means that spending in these sectors – from hotel stays to equipment rentals – is going to other states.
And while other revenue streams have served and continue to serve Delaware well, Harris said, it is also crucial to ensure the state is positioned “for the next generation of economic growth.”
The bill would offer eligible productions – including films, TV shows and video games — a nonrefundable tax credit equal to 30% of qualified expenses, usable against personal income and corporate taxes.
To qualify, companies must show their activities resulted in expenditures more than $500,000 during any consecutive 12-month period. They must also present opportunities to Delawareans to come onboard projects as interns.
Companies must also obtain “an independent audit” out of their own pockets, authenticating eligible expenses. These expenses can include any cost tied back to production, pre-production or post-production that took place within state lines.
These credits would also be transferrable – so long as they are approved by the state Division of Small Business – and can be extended for upwards of five years.
This bill mirrors a similar proposal included in a presented 5% operational spending growth and adjoining revenue plan.
The plan set aside up to $10 million in new revenue for a film tax credit to spur Delaware’s creative economy, though the actual cost would depend on how many productions apply.
Should this bill become law, the state will have a similar cap at $10 million every year, according to Harris.
This isn’t the first time lawmakers have seen this legislation.
In the hours before last year’s session ended, state Rep. Michael Smith backed a bill that would also establish a film tax credit for Delaware.
Also known as the Delaware Entertainment Job Act, the bill would have also established a 30%, “transferable tax credit for an investment in the state” for qualified productions.
Like its legislative relative, the bill would have required productions to bring First State residents as interns to qualify for this credit, as well as produce an audit of expenditures once production has wrapped.
Doing this, the bill argued, would spur job creation, artistic ventures and investment in the media industry.
The bill was also assigned to the House Revenue & Finance Committee, but did not advance. Smith signed on as a co-prime sponsor of this latest bill, according to Harris.
Former Rep. Valerie Longhurst introduced a near-verbatim measure to Smith’s bill back in 2022, but it did not make it all the way through the House.
What do lawmakers, Delawareans think?
For the most part, committee members were receptive to the bill.
Rep. Kendra Johnson was enthusiastic about the bill, asking to come on board as a co-signer of the bill.
She pointed to the HBO crime drama series “Task,” whose entire second season is scheduled to be filmed entirely in southeastern Pennsylvania, starting July 6.
Delaware’s neighbor state was reportedly investing $49.8 million into the project – the largest tax credit bestowed by the state to a single production, as reported by WHYY last year.
The projection is also set to create 3,700 jobs and infuse $194.1 million back into its economy.
Pennsylvania’s current tax credit program offers a 25% to 30% credit to productions that spend no lesser than 60% of their total funds within state lines.
“Imagine the economic growth that is happening there, that could be happening here,” Johnson told the panel.
Others have thrown their support behind bringing a film tax credit to Delaware.
Meyer is one such advocate. He mentioned during his State of the State address that Delaware not offering film tax credits made no sense, considering the latest Superman movie is “literally set” in the First State.
“They should be shooting here,” he said. “We’re just going to let so many other neighboring states soak up all of that Hollywood money?”
Other groups, including the Delaware Arts Alliance and the Delaware Hotel & Lodging Association, have also thrown their support behind the bill, Harris said.
What happens now?
The bill will continue to move through the House.
If signed into law, it would take effect starting July 1, the first day of the new fiscal year.
But lawmakers will need to move quickly – they only have until June 30 to have it passed in both chambers. Otherwise, they’ll need to start all over again come next session.
Olivia Montes covers state government and community impact for Delaware Online/The News Journal. If you have a tip or a story idea, reach out to her at omontes@delawareonline.com.
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