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Governor Carney Issues Statement on Senate Confirmations
Date Posted: December 16, 2024
Holiday Safety
Date Posted: December 16, 2024
Statement from Governor Carney
Date Posted: December 14, 2024
2024 Electoral College
Date Posted: December 13, 2024
Presidential Daughter Ashley Biden, Gov. Carney, DNREC Secretary Garvin Rededicate Renovated Biden Environmental Center
Date Posted: December 13, 2024
Delaware Natural Resources Police, DNREC Again Stock Santa’s Sleigh Via USMC Reserve Toys for Tots Partnership
Date Posted: December 13, 2024
Office of the Marijuana Commissioner (OMC) Open Retail License Lottery
Date Posted: December 13, 2024
Rooted in Tradition: 160 Delaware Farms Celebrate Over 100 Years
Date Posted: December 12, 2024
Governor Carney Announces Leadership Change at the Department of Transportation
Date Posted: December 12, 2024
$1.45 Million in Grants Announced to Support Homeless Services in Delaware
Date Posted: December 12, 2024
Governor Carney Announces Next Steps to Expand Access to High-Speed Broadband
Date Posted: December 11, 2024
Newly Released Federal Report Highlights Complexity of PFAS Exposure
Date Posted: December 10, 2024
Millsboro Fire
Date Posted: December 10, 2024
AG Jennings announces more than 135 charges in indictment against Wilmington-area gang
Date Posted: December 10, 2024
DNREC Approves Permits for US Wind Offshore Project
Date Posted: December 9, 2024
Delaware Paramedics Administer 250th Unit of Whole Blood for Prehospital Care
Date Posted: December 9, 2024
Laurel Fire
Date Posted: December 9, 2024
Delaware Day Adventure Begins December 7
Date Posted: December 6, 2024
E-ZPass Delaware Announces Annual Free Transponder Event
Date Posted: December 5, 2024
DSHA Celebrates Home Sweet Home For The Holidays Program And $75 Million In Additional Assistance
Date Posted: December 5, 2024
Cheswold Fire
Date Posted: December 4, 2024
Frederica Fire
Date Posted: December 4, 2024
AG Jennings reaches agreement with recidivist Wilmington landlord to shut down operations in Delaware
Date Posted: December 4, 2024
Delaware Office of Highway Safety Encourages Safe Driving Decisions for Seniors and Their Loved Ones
Date Posted: December 3, 2024
Nominations Open for 2025 Governor’s Volunteer Service Awards
Date Posted: December 3, 2024
Smyrna administrative assistant named 2025 Delaware Educational Support Professional of the Year
Date Posted: December 2, 2024
Delaware 250 Announces Fall 2024 Grant Recipients
Date Posted: December 2, 2024
The Mezzanine Gallery to Exhibit Lori Crawford’s “EnvironMental Just(ice) Mercy”
Date Posted: December 2, 2024
Winter Weather Awareness Week: December 2 to 6
Date Posted: November 27, 2024
2025 Delaware State Parks Annual Passes, Surf Fishing Permits to Go on Sale Dec. 3
Date Posted: November 27, 2024
DHSS Adds New Data and Reports to the CostAware Website
Date Posted: November 26, 2024
Delaware Celebrates National Adoption Month
Date Posted: November 26, 2024
Thanksgiving Safety 2024
Date Posted: November 26, 2024
DNREC Begins Emergency Dredging Project Restoring Beach North of Indian River Inlet
Date Posted: November 25, 2024
Burn Ban Lifted
Date Posted: November 25, 2024
Registration Open for 2025 Junior Solar Sprint
Date Posted: November 25, 2024
Celebrate the Holidays in Delaware with the Hidden Holiday Gems Passport
Date Posted: November 22, 2024
Governor Carney Proclaims November 17-23 as Delaware Apprenticeship Week
Date Posted: November 22, 2024
Governor Carney Announces Judicial Nominations
Date Posted: November 22, 2024
Delaware Office of Highway Safety Launches Sober Rides Initiative and Kicks Off Winter Holiday Road Safety Campaign
Date Posted: November 21, 2024
Governor Carney, DSB Announce Fall 2024 EDGE Grant Competition Awards
Date Posted: November 20, 2024
City Of Wilmington Celebrates Ten Years Of Downtown Development Districts
Date Posted: November 20, 2024
Division of Revenue Releases Guidance on New Short-term Rental Lodging Tax
Date Posted: November 20, 2024
DOJ secures life plus decades more in prison for domestic violence repeat offender
Date Posted: November 19, 2024
Federal Court Orders Harris Jewelry to Restore its Website and Portal for Servicemembers to Request Refunds
Date Posted: November 19, 2024
Agriculture, Food and Natural Science Students Take Home Awards from 97th National FFA Convention & Expo
Date Posted: November 19, 2024
Delaware Forest Service To Host Upcoming Wildfire Training
Date Posted: November 18, 2024
Delaware’s Sports Tourism Industry Contributed Significant Economic Impact in 2023, According to Recent Study
Date Posted: November 15, 2024
Delaware Celebrates Improvements To The Housing Assistance Application Process
Date Posted: November 15, 2024
Delaware Natural Resources Police Collecting Toys for Tots Donations for Kids
Date Posted: November 15, 2024
Delaware State Housing Authority Recognizes Mortgage Lending Community And Veterans At 2024 Annual Lender Meeting
Date Posted: November 14, 2024
Delaware Officials Unveil Harm Reduction Vending Machines
Date Posted: November 14, 2024
2025 District/Charter Educational Support Professionals of the Year Honored
Date Posted: November 14, 2024
Historical Marker Dedicated – Mount Olive Holiness Pentecostal Church in Smyrna
Date Posted: November 13, 2024
DelDOT Receives Top Bond Rating and Announces Bond Sale
Date Posted: November 12, 2024
Delaware’s Education Savings Plan Earns Silver Rating
Date Posted: November 7, 2024
Delaware Schools Receive National, State Honors
Date Posted: November 6, 2024
DNREC to Host Nov. 14 Webinar about Storm Water Management and Living Shorelines
Date Posted: November 6, 2024
Governor Carney Releases Government Efficiency and Accountability Review (GEAR) Board Report
Date Posted: November 4, 2024
DOJ secures conviction in the killing of Cynthia Amalfitano
Date Posted: November 4, 2024
AG Jennings and bipartisan coalition of 30 states announce finalization of settlement with Kroger over opioid crisis
Date Posted: November 4, 2024
Carney Administration Outlines Investments in Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
Date Posted: November 1, 2024
Open Enrollment on Delaware’s Health Insurance Marketplace Starts Nov. 1
Date Posted: November 1, 2024
AG Jennings Announces Cooperation Agreements and Settlements with Heritage and Apotex totaling $49.1 Million
Date Posted: November 1, 2024
DNREC Reopens Castle Trail Along C&D Canal Following Repairs to Storm-Damaged Section
Date Posted: October 31, 2024
Delaware Partners with American Cancer Society for 2nd Annual Lung Cancer Screening Campaign
Date Posted: October 31, 2024
OMC Provides Update on License Lottery and Selected Applicants for Delaware’s Marijuana Industry
Date Posted: October 31, 2024
Funding Awarded for Tree-Planting Projects
Date Posted: October 31, 2024
With Annual Fall Trout Stocking in White Clay Creek, DNREC Delivers Angling Opportunities
Date Posted: October 30, 2024
Carney, Carper, Coons, Blunt Rochester Announce Over $127 Million in Federal Funding to Decarbonize Port Wilmington
Date Posted: October 30, 2024
Governor Carney Launches Statewide Student Mentoring Program
Date Posted: October 29, 2024
DPH Oral Health Screening Programs Support Students’ Healthy Smiles and Expand Access to Dental Care
Date Posted: October 29, 2024
Opioid Fund Co-Chairs Release Roadmap to Recalibrate Use of Settlement Funds
Date Posted: October 28, 2024
New HSCA Rate Goes into Effect in January
Date Posted: October 28, 2024
AG Jennings resuspends financial advisor for illegally accessing former clients’ account information
Date Posted: October 28, 2024
DOJ secures more than two decades of prison time in cold case murder
Date Posted: October 28, 2024
Housing Assistance Applicants Should Update Information On Public Housing Waitlists By Nov. 22
Date Posted: October 28, 2024
Delaware Forest Service Opens Grants for Local Communities
Date Posted: October 28, 2024
Office of the Marijuana Commissioner (OMC) Conducts Lottery for Delaware’s Regulated Marijuana Industry
Date Posted: October 25, 2024
Governor Carney, with Guidance from Water Supply Coordinating Council, Declares Statewide Drought Watch
Date Posted: October 25, 2024
Tag-A-Palooza 2024
Date Posted: October 24, 2024
Office of the Marijuana Commissioner: Licensing Lottery
Date Posted: October 23, 2024
AG Jennings issues open letter to Delaware landlords urging Delaware Landlord/Tenant Code Compliance
Date Posted: October 22, 2024
New Housing Vouchers for Delaware Families
Date Posted: October 21, 2024
Piping Plover Population in Delaware Experiences Slight Decline, Offset by Higher Nesting Success
Date Posted: October 21, 2024
National Slow Down Move Over Day Observed as Delaware Sees Near Record Crashes
Date Posted: October 18, 2024
Delaware Officials Unveil New Sign to Celebrate Delaware’s Agricultural Lands Preservation Program
Date Posted: October 17, 2024
DOJ secures prison time for former trooper
Date Posted: October 16, 2024
Colonial Teacher Named Delaware 2025 Teacher of the Year
Date Posted: October 15, 2024
Governor Carney Orders Lowering of Flags
Date Posted: October 15, 2024
Delaware Faces Dry Conditions: Open Burning Ban Issued, Water Conservation Urged
Date Posted: October 15, 2024
Burning Ban
Date Posted: October 15, 2024
DelDOT Announces 4th Annual Name That Plow Contest
Date Posted: October 15, 2024
Potassium Iodide Distribution on October 24 in Townsend
Date Posted: October 15, 2024
DPH Releases Latest Cancer Incidence and Mortality Trends in Delaware
Date Posted: October 14, 2024
Navarro Announces Eighth Consecutive Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Date Posted: October 14, 2024
Governor Carney Statement on Honorable James T. Vaughn, Jr.’s Passing
Date Posted: October 11, 2024
Delaware Celebrates $14.3 Million Climate Grant for I-95 Charging Infrastructure
Date Posted: October 10, 2024
AG Jennings Announces $52 Million Multistate Settlement with Marriott for Data Breach
Date Posted: October 10, 2024
First Spouse Tracey Quillen Carney, Delaware DOE, Delaware Readiness Teams Kick off Kindergarten Registration
Date Posted: October 9, 2024
WILMINGTON, Del. (WPVI) — The family of Kadir Skinner is calling for criminal charges against the police officer who shot the 19-year-old after the release of officer body camera footage that attorneys say contradicts the police account of the incident.
The shooting happened June 24 after 11 p.m. at 24th and Jessup streets.
Calls grow for body cam video in deadly Wilmington police shooting
Body camera video shows an officer drawing and firing his weapon while yelling commands. In the footage, officers can be heard saying, “He’s got a gun,” as they approach Skinner, who is on the ground.
Skinner repeatedly tells officers he is unarmed and says he cannot breathe.
“I don’t got nothing. I don’t got nothing,” Skinner says in the video.
Footage shows officers handcuffing Skinner and kneeling on him while he continues to say, “I don’t got nothing. I can’t breathe.”
Skinner was shot in the rear.
READ MORE | ‘We need answers’: Family disputes details after man killed in Wilmington police shooting
A second body camera angle shows a crowd forming as officers instruct people to back up.
Video from a third responding officer appears to show an officer picking something up from the grass and returning toward the crowd and the officers with Skinner.
In the footage, an officer can be heard saying, “Secure the gun,” and the officer wearing the body cam says, “I have it.”
Attorneys for Skinner’s family, along with family members and community supporters, gathered at Shiloh Baptist Church in Wilmington following the release of the video to demand justice.
“Regardless if he had a gun or not, he was still shot in the back, running from police, not having been a threat,” attorney Harry Daniels said.
SEE ALSO | Family releases witness video after 19-year-old fatally shot by police in Wilmington
Attorney Chance Lynch said the footage showed “an unjustified killing.”
“What we saw and what we witnessed was an unjustified killing,” Lynch said.
Attorneys for the family contend the video disputes the police version of events. Wilmington police previously said Skinner came out of a home armed and waved a gun at a crowd before officers opened fire.
“The video that I saw, I didn’t see a crowd, and I did not see Kadir coming out of a residence. I did not see a crowd, and I did not see Kadir pointing a firearm at a crowd,” Lynch said.
Attorneys and the family maintain that Skinner was running from a loose dog.
The family also announced a $25 million claim against the city of Wilmington for wrongful death. They are seeking criminal charges against the officer who shot Skinner.
The Delaware Department of Justice is investigating.
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Delmarva Power objects to applying legislation to interim rate
The debate among commissioners over the breadth of their oversight on utility rates comes as the company has pushed back on the group, limiting its interim rate increase to half of its total request, even while it faced criticism from commissioners that it is “cruel” and “tone deaf” for continuing to press for rate hikes.
Delmarva Power, an investor-owned utility, serves 344,000 residential and nonresidential customers in the state. Its parent company, Exelon Corporation, is the nation’s largest regulated electric and gas utility.
Its customers pay a supply and a delivery charge for gas and electricity. The supply of energy comes from PJM Interconnection, a regional grid serving Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and several other states. Delmarva Power profits through the distribution fee.
Delmarva Power Region President Marcus Beal said they need to file rate hike requests to recoup money it spends on improving and maintaining the infrastructure.
“Our equipment is extremely expensive, the items that we buy, the transformers, they’re very large, complex things to build,” Beal said. “Even something as simple as a treated pole of a certain size can be very pricey, so we spend a lot of money on the grid itself.”
Under Delaware law, interim rates can be approved seven months after a rate case is filed, while the full petition is being considered by the commission. Prior to the legislation, 100% of the rate request could be implemented. The bill caps interim rates at 50% and allows 75% of the ask to go into effect after 12 months. The bill also puts limits on Delmarva Power’s infrastructure spending.
Delmarva Power spokesperson Matt Ford said the commission overstepped its authority to cut the interim rate as much as they did and the company has argued in its PSC submissions that SB 326 did not apply to the rate increase request filed in December because it had yet to be signed into law. Meyer said he signed the bill Monday.
“Delmarva Power further reserves its objections to the applicability of the legislation, should it become effective, including its impermissible retroactive application,” the utility company said in comments filed Monday afternoon with the commission.
In addition, Delmarva Power has objected to halving $23.2 million in distribution system improvement charges as part of the interim rate commissioners approved. The fee allows utility companies to recover project costs and depreciation between full rate case proceedings.
“My suggestion is, if you don’t like it, appeal it,” Iorii said.
It’s unclear whether the utility plans to appeal the order. Ford said they were reviewing it and its implications.
Tweedie said he hopes they decide not to appeal.
“If they appeal this, what they are essentially saying is, ‘We want to extract more money from our customers than the commission intended to allow,’” he said.
Delaware State Police have identified the man who was struck and killed by a vehicle while lying on the roadway in Harrington, Delaware.
On Monday, July 13, 2026, Jimmy Burgess, 62, was struck by a Chevrolet Silverado driving westbound near the 1500 block of Whiteleysburg Road.
According to police, the Silverado, which was operated by a 17-year-old boy from Milton, Delaware, was unable to stop once he saw Burgess on the road, striking him. The driver of the Silverado was not injured during the crash.
Burgess was transported to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead, said police.
The roadway was closed for approximately three hours while the scene was investigated and cleared.
The Delaware State Police Troop 3 Collison Reconstruction Unit continues to investigate this crash.
Troopers ask anyone with information about the crash contact Sergeant M. Long at (302) 698-8518.
Information can also be provided by sending a private Facebook message to the Delaware State Police, or by contacting Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-(800) 847-3333
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