Two men -- one armed with a handgun -- tried to force their way into a Maryland Avenue residence Monday night, but the residents turned the tables on the intruders and locked them out, police said.

U.S. Coast Guard investigators are still trying to determine what caused a 600-foot Liberian tanker to run aground Monday in the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal.

Two local men, arrested last week by state police in Pennsylvania on burglary charges, will face similar charges when they are returned to Delaware.

A Pennsylvania man operating a business in Wilmington was arrested Monday for engaging in home improvement fraud, authorities said.

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of two state prison officials who were sued for their alleged roles in the 2003 death of a Delaware prison inmate.

Robert Hayman had just begun his talk on Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday when the lights in the student lounge at Widener University's Brandywine Hundred campus went off, then came back on a second later.

Delaware faces a general nursing shortage over the next decade, but it also faces a specific shortage: nurses who can communicate with the growing number of Spanish-speaking immigrants.

A new event at the 22-year-old AIDS Walk Delaware nearly was foiled Sunday, until the Wilmington Fire Department came to the rescue.

St. Francis Center of Hope was opened in August 1996 to serve low-income Spanish-speaking patients. The family practice, run by St. Francis Hospital, is located in Red Mill Square in Newark, neighboring Ruby's Mexican Store.

New Castle resident Maria Villot is the past president of the National Hispanic Nurses Association, which focuses on identifying and supporting Hispanic nurses throughout the nation.

Delaware SPCA

Wilmington man, 78, found in crumbling home

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WILMINGTON -- Mara Odette said her heart lifted Sunday to see "the beauty of the culture" celebrated during difficult times for Hispanic-Americans.

A celebration is set to honor the birthday and contributions of a former governor -- and raise funds to continue his long-standing causes.

Muslims all over Delaware are invited to a celebration in Wilmington marking the end of Ramadan.

The nation's economic crisis is causing increasingly hard times for Wilmington's needy, in turn draining resources at the Sunday Breakfast Mission.

Agency wants to sell one of its five vessels

The state was awarded a $12,000 grant last week to conduct summits bringing together government and business leaders to develop an agenda to address poverty, primarily among children.

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.

DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. -- The pilot of a medical helicopter twice radioed for help in foggy weather before crashing Sunday, killing four of the five people on board in the latest of a growing number of air ambulance accidents, authorities said.

WASHINGTON -- Vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden kept his distance from Washington Friday, hoping to keep politics out of negotiations on a $700 billion rescue deal for Wall Street.

BRIDGEVILLE -- State police shot and killed a man who pointed a loaded shotgun at troopers after telling them he wanted troopers to kill him.

Dark skies and scattered rain did not deter Ann McCloud Sneath from attending the opening of Winterthur's annual GardenFair Friday.

A sperm whale's tooth carved by a Wilmington sailor in 1835 sold Friday for $98,500 -- $38,500 more than estimated -- in an auction at Sotheby's in New York, according to the company's Web site.