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Ruby Tuesday closes one Delaware location as chain continues decline
Monkey spotted in Delaware restaurant, cracks up patrons
A monkey made a surprise appearance in the Texas Roadhouse in Bear on Jan. 4. No, the animal wasn’t on the menu. It dined in the restaurant.
Ruby Tuesday closed a Delaware location last week, a few years after the chain filed for bankruptcy.
Ruby Tuesday located in the Pike Creek Shopping Center at 4700 Limestone Road, closed its doors to the public on Tuesday, Jan. 7, according to Regency Centers, the shopping center’s commercial developer.
The chain filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in 2020 after struggling from years of increased competition and in the face of the pandemic, but kept its four Delaware locations open. The casual dining chain emerged from bankruptcy a year later as a much smaller company.
Today, just two Ruby Tuesday locations remain in the First State; in Milford at 945 N. DuPont Blvd. and in Middletown at 474 West Main St.
A Regency Centers spokesperson could not confirm whether a new tenant has signed on to take over the location.
More happenings in the shopping center
Pike Creek Shopping Center, now home to a handful of fitness centers, Acme, Goldfish Swim School and some chain fast-casual dining spots, is in the process of opening a new gas station and convenience store (no, not a Wawa).
According to New Castle County planning documents, a Dash-In store is undergoing the county’s land use process, featuring a 3,492 square foot shopping center and eight gas pumps located next to the current Edge Fitness off New Linden Hill Road.
The most recent plans were submitted in late November of 2024.
Molly McVety covers community and environmental issues around Delaware. Contact her at mmcvety@delawareonline.com. Follow her on Twitter @mollymcvety.
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Shooting in Wilmington, Delaware, leaves teen, man injured, police say
A teenager and a 21-year-old man were injured in a shooting in Wilmington, Delaware, Monday afternoon, police said.
The shooting happened in the area of East 23rd and North Pine streets at around 2:30 p.m., according to Wilmington police.
The 21-year-old man was placed in critical condition at the hospital, while the 16-year-old was placed in stable condition, police said.
The shooting is under investigation.
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Delaware snow totals for Jan. 25 top out at 10 inches, says NWS
Watch people sledding at a park in Wilmington as the snow falls
People bring their sleds and gather at Rockford Park in Wilmington to hit the hills during the winter storm, Jan. 25, 2026.
The Jan. 25 snowstorm was the Wilmington area’s biggest single snowfall since the January 2016 blizzard, according to the National Weather Service.
At Wilmington Airport near New Castle, 8.3 inches of snow was recorded. On Jan. 22-23, 2016, 16.1 inches fell at the airport.
The Jan. 25 daily snowfall record at the airport, set in 2000, is 10.0 inches.
The airport has recorded 15.6 inches of snowfall this snow season. The normal amount through Jan. 25 is 7.6 inches.
Here are snow totals for other places in Delaware, according to the National Weather Service and the Delaware Environmental Observing System’s Snow Monitoring Network.
New Castle County snow totals for Jan. 25
Here is the snowfall reported, with the provider in parentheses:
- Bear: 10.0 inches at 11 p.m. (public)
- Wilmington area: 9.0 inches at 8 p.m. (public)
- Holiday Hills area, Brandywine Hundred: 8.7 inches at 9 p.m. (trained spotter)
- Pike Creek: 8.5 inches at 10 p.m. (trained spotter)
- New Castle County Airport: 8.3 inches at midnight (Automated Surface Observing System)
- Twin Oaks, Brandywine Hundred: 8.1 inches at 8 p.m. (trained spotter)
- New Castle: 8.0 inches at 6:46 p.m. (public)
- Talleyville area: 8.0 inches at 3:15 p.m. (public)
- Hockessin: 7.8 inches at 10:15 p.m. (trained spotter)
- Newark: 7.5 inches at 6 p.m. (trained spotter)
- Blackbird: 7.3 inches (DEOS)
- Talley: 6.9 inches (DEOS)
- Glasgow: 6.8 inches (DEOS)
- Port Penn: 6.8 inches (DEOS)
- Newark: 6.7 inches (DEOS)
- White Clay Creek: 6.7 inches (DEOS)
- Claymont: 6.3 inches (DEOS)
- Greenville: 6.4 inches (DEOS)
- Prices Corner: 6.3 inches (DEOS)
- Hockessin: 6.2 inches (DEOS)
- New Castle: 6.0 inches (DEOS)
Kent County snow totals for Jan. 25
Here is the snowfall reported, with the provider in parentheses:
- Dover: 6.5 inches at 9:10 a.m. (public)
- Dover Air Force Base: 6.5 inches at 11:55 a.m. (Automated Surface Observing System)
- Smyrna: 6.5 inches (DEOS)
- Woodside: 6.3 inches at 3 p.m. (trained spotter)
- Camden: 6.0 inches at 11:38 a.m. (trained spotter)
- Smyrna: 6.0 inches at 9:38 a.m. (trained spotter)
- Magnolia: 5.6 inches at 1 p.m. (trained spotter)
- Dover: 5.5 inches at 11 a.m. (public)
- Dover: 5.4 inches (DEOS)
- Harrington: 5.4 inches (DEOS)
- West Dover: 5.3 inches (DEOS)
- Frederica: 4.5 inches (DEOS)
- Woodside: 4.5 inches (DEOS)
Sussex County snow totals for Jan. 25
Here is the snowfall reported, with the provider in parentheses:
- Ellendale: 4.1 inches (DEOS)
- Milton: 4.0 inches at 8 a.m. (broadcast media)
- Selbyville: 4.0 inches at 8:39 a.m. (trained spotter)
- Lewes: 3.6 inches (DEOS)
- Milton: 3.5 inches at 11:30 a.m. (public)
- Bridgeville: 3.3 inches (DEOS)
- Dagsboro: 3.2 inches (DEOS)
- Stockley: 3.2 inches (DEOS)
- Seaford: 3.1 inches (DEOS)
- Nassau: 2.7 inches (DEOS)
- Bethany Beach: 2.3 inches (DEOS)
- Laurel: 2.3 inches (DEOS)
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