The News Journal

Wilmington turns to higher fines, collection as alternative to taxes Full Story »

Winter weather system drenches Delaware Full Story »

The Wilmington Zoning Board of Adjustment unanimously voted Wednesday to allow the new owner of The Columbus Inn on Pennsylvania Avenue to reopen the restaurant. Full Story »

On the rooftop of the Henlopen Hotel, an array of seven cameras automatically snaps pictures of the beach throughout the day, capturing an image of sand movement and migration on a replenished beach. Full Story »

A 17-year-old Wilmington youth was fatally shot Wednesday night in the 500 block of Townsend Court in the city's Southbridge neighborhood. Full Story »

What do humans share with flies, worms, chimpanzees, fish and even strawberries? Actually, quite a lot. Full Story »

President Barack Obama is accepting the world's best-known peace award as a wartime president, an incongruity that he will directly speak to when he receives the Nobel Peace Prize today, White House officials say. Full Story »

In January, Delaware schools will begin targeting students at risk for dropping out by analyzing attendance and math and reading scores. Full Story »

"Life is a terrible thing to waste -- to take," convicted killer Clifford Wright said to a jury Wednesday, "I didn't think of that before I did it." Full Story »

Declaring "it's a matter of survival," one of the world's tiniest nations, speaking for imperiled islands everywhere, took on global industrial and oil powers Wednesday at the UN climate conference -- and lost. Full Story »

Attorneys for the state's Superior Court judges and Delaware's agency that regulates unions faced off Wednesday before the state Supreme Court on whether bailiffs can unionize. Full Story »

Dan Zervoudakes doesn't want any of his tax dollars funding abortions. Full Story »

President Barack Obama's health insurance overhaul -- now looking like it really will happen -- should give uninsured Americans options they've never had before, but health care security won't be a free ride. Full Story »

A 49-year-old Glasgow man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly beating his dog to death. Full Story »

Most of Delaware's libraries are linking their catalogs into a database that now totals a million items and will top 2 million when the unification project is finished. Full Story »

The state House of Representatives delayed voting on a bill to legalize table games and authorize two more casinos in Pennsylvania, because Democratic leaders were still trying to piece together support for it. Full Story »

In court, state faulted for lag on permit ruling Full Story »

The driver of a tractor-trailer that overturned on I-95 Tuesday morning, snarling traffic for more than four hours, has been charged with failing to properly secure his cargo, state police said. Full Story »

Dunleith community rallies in support after tragedy Full Story »

A 52-year-old Kent County man who died November 7 of complications from swine flu had a virus that was resistant to the drugs used to treat it. Full Story »

While most of the former Chrysler plant remained dark and quiet, one corner of the cavernous space was filled with light and activity Tuesday, as the University of Delaware celebrated the acquisition of the 272-acre site. Full Story »

Longtime Rep V George Carey, R-Milford, has announced he will not seek re-election in November. Full Story »

New faces lead a Latino advocacy group in Wilmington, but the mission of giving voices to those who don't have them remains the same. Full Story »

Assured that their taxes would not go up, voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a referendum that will allow the Appoquinimink School District to build two new schools and make other improvements. Full Story »

Bailiffs in Delaware Superior Court are sworn to protect judges, but when bailiffs said last year they wanted to unionize, the court apparently took that as a threat. Full Story »