With tools in hand and sleeves rolled up, Uncle Sam and Rosie the Riveter seemed to always have a message or a friendly bit advice for 20th-century laborers.

Tulip bulb sale spreads brain tumor awareness

A grass-roots charity that gives shoes to poor children in impoverished countries is looking for help.

WILMINGTON -- Once, they gathered in Wilmington as none of their people had before, the first black people in the United States to worship in freedom without white supervision.

WILMINGTON -- To many political observers, Mayor James M. Baker's bid to become the first three-term mayor in city history is at once historic and anti-climactic.

The Labor Day weekend for decades has marked a surge in participant, sponsor and volunteer recruitment for the AIDS Walk Delaware. This year is no different.

If there's a pothole that jounces you around or a road that seems to have been closed forever, we want to know about it.

When everyone stood, a year ago this month, as Leonard P. Stark entered courtroom 2A on his first day as a magistrate judge, he was taken aback.

Delaware Military Academy near Newport has received a $12.2 million conduit bond through Pima County, Ariz., that allows the charter school to purchase the two buildings and property it had been leasing and to pay off its loan.

BAN LOMTUAN, Thailand -- Preecha Jiabyu used to take tourists on a rowboat to see the banks of the Mae Klong River aglow with thousands of fireflies.

For most of her young life, forgetting to eat was not something Nicole Herman ever worried about. She often woke up with hunger pangs so intense they made her nauseous.

ST. PAUL, Minn.

John Carney Jr. has reported for duty in government offices for more than 20 years, with more than a decade in statewide service -- first as finance secretary for former Gov. Tom Carper and then as lieutenant governor for two terms.

Brooke Bovard has been visiting the Arden Fair and Antiques Market for 48 years.

That 500-pound Brahma bull named Morelitos continued his mysterious meanderings in Chateau Country north of Brandywine Hundred late into Saturday night.

Tom Scherer's decision to run for a seat on New Castle County Council has come about much the same way it does for many citizens who suddenly find themselves entering local politics.

A 33-year-old Bear man was charged with several counts of raping a 16-year-old girl, police said Saturday.

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When Jack Markell took over the state treasurer's office in January 1999, he found workers in a room with three stacks of paper and eight color-coded pens, reconciling accounts.

ST. PAUL, Minn.

Gas prices may be high, but not high enough to deter a couple of New Jersey women from making the 50-minute trek from their homes to the Woodside Farm Creamery in Hockessin.

The paramedic unit based at downtown's Wilmington Trust Plaza will begin round-the-clock operations Sept. 22, New Castle County Executive Chris Coons announced.

The historic impact of Barack Obama's nomination was not missed as those in Wilmington watched Thursday night with deep emotion as another page in history was turned.

Obama rallies 84,000 as first black major-party nominee

WILMINGTON -- With party primaries less than two weeks away, the two Democrats who want to be Delaware's next governor stood in front of hundreds of area business leaders and outlined their visions for the state's future.