Delaware

Firefighters rescued a total of eight people from the parking lot and several more were evacuated from two business that were surrounded by floodwaters.

Tropical Storm Fay is bringing rain and wind to the northeast on Friday, with storm conditions expected through the weekend.

Special delivery instructions for an Amazon package had a driver in Delaware doing some magic on a front porch.

A black journalist was arrested while identifying himself as a reporter at a protest in Delaware and was later released.

Former Vice President Joe Biden left his home and made a visit Sunday to the site of George Floyd protests in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, the previous night.

In a watershed moment for animal lovers, America has its first no-kill state: Delaware. The nonprofit Best Friends Animal Society, which is working with shelters, animal welfare organizations and government agencies across the country to make America a no-kill country by 2025, announced the news at their annual conference in Dallas, Texas. Linda Torelli, director of marketing for the Brandywine...

An inmate who escaped in South Carolina 40 years ago was arrested in Delaware this week, NBC News reported.

Louis D. Coleman III, of Providence, Rhode Island, will now be transferred to Boston at a date to be determined.

A Trump Administration rule that would allow more employers to opt out of covering birth control from women will not take effect on Monday as scheduled. The rules would let employers claim exemption for religious or moral reasons. Delaware is one of the 13 states that sued to have the rule stopped.

Gov. Charlie Baker has proposed a law to allow betting on professional sports in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts would eliminate carry-out plastic bags from retail stores around the state under a new bill set for debate this week in the State Senate. Released on Monday, the proposal would expand on measures already adopted in over 100 cities and towns across the commonwealth, according to the office of Senate President Karen Spilka.

At least 60% of U.S. Superfund sites are in areas vulnerable to flooding or other worsening disasters of climate change, and the Trump administration’s reluctance to directly acknowledge global warming is deterring efforts to safeguard them, a congressional watchdog agency says. In a report being released Monday, the Government Accountability Office called on Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler to...

When the U.S. Census Bureau counts residents of Milwaukee’s poorest neighborhoods next year, a significant portion of their population will be missing: prisoners. For these predominantly black areas, with incarceration rates among the highest in the nation, the government’s longstanding policy to count inmates as residents of the prison where they are held diminishes their political power back home. “When...

Venice is experiencing continuous high tide levels this week, which is jeopardizing many of the city’s iconic treasures.

An army of Confederate monuments dots Virginia’s landscape but some of those statues could soon start coming down after Election Day gave Democrats control of the General Assembly for the first time in decades.

A Delaware man is accused of driving a stolen van filled with 131 pounds of marijuana plants.

The Washington Mystics claimed their first WNBA title with a back-and-forth, 89-78 Game 5 victory over the Connecticut Sun.

An 18-year-old driver and two of his young passengers are dead after his car careened off a Delaware canal bank Sunday morning and crashed into the water below, Delaware officials said.

The defense lawyer for a Rhode Island man charged with kidnapping a Boston woman from her birthday celebration whose body was later found in the trunk of his car is requesting additional records.