All the headlines from our Delaware Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 22 2018 // Delaware’s top court has denied the appeal of the man convicted of masterminding the murder-for-hire killings of his business partner and the partner’s wife.The News Journal reports the Delaware Supreme Court...
Mar 9 2018 // A Delaware-based auto service contract company is under investigation following complaints from customers around the country.The News Journal reports that a recorded message at American Standard Auto Protection in...
Mar 7 2018 // A Delaware judge says insurers may be on the hook for $190 million to settle two lawsuits stemming from a 2013 buyout in which Dole Food chairman and CEO David Murdock took the company private. In a ruling late last week,...
Mar 1 2018 // An insurance company has given four Delaware organizations $325,000 in grants to combat the state’s opioid crisis.The News Journal of Wilmington reports Highmark Delaware President Tim Constantine announced the...
Feb 13 2018 // Health officials are testing lead levels in the blood of children whose parents work at a central Indiana lead smelting plant amid concerns those workers are tracking lead home on their clothing, exposing their kids to the...
Feb 13 2018 // Delaware Governor John Carney has authorized the National Guard to assist residents of a southern Delaware town after the discovery of high levels of toxic chemicals in municipal wells. Authorities said that the Guard has...
Feb 5 2018 // A man has been convicted in a murder-for-hire scheme in Delaware.The state’s justice department says a jury has convicted Ryan Shover of York, Penn., of first-degree murder and other charges in the 2013 slaying of...
Feb 5 2018 // The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (SJC) has ruled two former board members and investors in a limited liability company are not liable for failing to pay the LLC’s former president, in a case that the SJC...
Jan 23 2018 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro has announced that Deputy Commissioner Mitch Crane will end his service to the state of Delaware on February 16, 2018.Crane has served as Commissioner Navarro’s deputy...
Jan 22 2018 // Delaware on Friday became the latest state to file a lawsuit accusing corporations of helping fuel the national opioid epidemic, suing a wide range of companies involved in making, distributing and selling prescription...
Jan 8 2018 // The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (SJC) has ruled that two former board members and investors in a limited liability company are not liable for failing to pay the LLC’s former president, in a case that the...
Dec 27 2017 // Multiple homes have been severely damaged by fire in Delaware.News outlets report a Monday night fire in Slaughter Beach left at least two houses destroyed, and caused damage to multiple others. An assistant state fire...
Dec 5 2017 // A state panel formed to consider issues surrounding the legalization of recreational marijuana is resuming its work this week. Wednesday’s meeting of the task force will focus on public safety and criminal justice...
Nov 29 2017 // A pest control company will pay more than $9 million in criminal fines tied to the use of a banned pesticide that sickened a Delaware family on vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2015.The News Journal of Wilmington...
Nov 21 2017 // Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. has reached a $90 million settlement of shareholder claims arising from the sexual harassment scandal at its Fox News Channel, which cost the jobs of longtime news chief Roger Ailes and anchor...
Nov 16 2017 // Federal prosecutors say a Delaware woman charged with transferring more than $6 million from the operating account of the financial services company where she worked into her own bank accounts over several years deserves...
Oct 19 2017 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro has announced that there will be a decrease in workers’ compensation insurance rates, effective December 1, 2017.“This insurance rate decrease has a direct...
Oct 18 2017 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG), a property and casualty insurance and employee benefits broker, has acquired CNC Insurance Associates Inc. (CNC). The transaction became effective October 1, 2017.CNC is THG’s 38th...
Oct 13 2017 // A tanker truck wreck forced the closing of Delaware’s main north-south highway in both directions Wednesday as crews worked to clean up thousands of gallons of spilled gasoline, authorities said.State police said the...
Oct 4 2017 // A state task force is continuing to examine issues surrounding legalized recreational use of marijuana. While eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational use of marijuana, each has done so through...