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Army Corps to pump in 2 million cubic yards of sand in Delaware
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is placing more than 26 million cubic yards of sand along the coastline throughout the northeastern United States to repair and restore coastal storm risk reduction projects previously...
Newport firm gets EPA small business grant
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded an $80,000 Small Business Innovation Research contract to Compact Membrane Systems, Inc. (CMS) of Newport to develop a technology that enhances industry’s ability to use green solvents in...
Bank of America Foundation funds internships at non profits
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation announced that five Delaware high school students have been selected to take part in the 2013 Student Leaders program, which awards 225 community-minded high school juniors and seniors...
Traffic expected to be heavy as Firefly concludes
The Delaware Department of Transportation announced it will take steps to ensure smoother traffic flow when the Firefly Festival concludes at 11 p.m., Sunday in the Dover Downs area.
DelDOT motorist should avoid driving in...
(Video) Manufacturing perks up in region, but hiring remains weak
Manufacturing firms responding to the monthly Business Outlook Survey indicated that regional manufacturing activity increased this month in the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's territory, which includes Delaware.
Most of the Fed survey’s broadest current...
Downtown building goes up for aution on Tuesday
An auction is slated on Tuesday for Customs House Plaza.
The nearly 90,000-square-foot, six-story downtown Wilmington building is at 704 King St. It is near county, state and federal offices and has access to parking...
Guest article: Conventional wisdom can ground turnarounds
(Thommes is a director at Beane Associates, Inc., a turnaround and crisis management consulting firm based in Wilmington)
By Jeffrey Thommes
We often talk about the “conventional wisdom,” the term often attributed to economist John Kenneth...
One man killed, another critically injured in Saturday crash (release)
Newark-The Delaware State Police Crash Reconstruction Unit is investigating a two vehicle collision in which one person died and one critically injured earlier this evening on Old Baltimore Pike and Salem Woods Drive, Newark.
Preliminary...
Environmental efforts of farmers, poultry industry praised as Chicken Festival gets under way
U.S. Sen. Tom Carper expressed support for the the environmental efforts of farmers and industry as the 64th Delmarva Poultry Festival kicked off in Snow Hill, Md., Friday.
By closing at 9 p.m. on Saturday...
Delaware’s unemployment remains stuck the 7s
Delaware’s unemployment rate stayed above 7 percent in May as job growth struggled to keep pace with a growing labor pool. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in May 2013 was 7.2%, up from a...
Sussex County holds line on property taxes for 24th straight year
Sussex County Council unanimously approved the proposed $117.7 million budget for the 2014 fiscal year that begins July 1.
A recovering housing market, leading to a projected uptick in local realty transfer tax revenue, aided...
Local drug kingpin gets 15 years
Kelvin Cook, 35 of Wilmington, was sentenced to 15 years for his role as a leader of an international drug trafficking conspiracy.
Prosecutors said Cook was one of the leaders of an organization that recruited...
Law notes: Elliott named ‘best advocate”
Tara D. Elliott, a principal in Fish & Richardson’s Wilmington office, has been named a “2013 Nation’s Best Advocate: 40 Lawyers Under 40” by the National Bar Association (NBA) and IMPACT.
The award recognizes talented...
Man arrested after shooting outside Newark motel
A Newark man has been arrested in connection with a shooting at the America's Best Value Inn..
Newark Police identified the suspect as Michael Cummings.. The motel is at 1120 South College Avenue.
The incident...
(Photo gallery) Business people June 19, 2013
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Sallie Mae announced the appointment of Steven McGarry as senior vice president, corporate finance, effective immediately.
McGarry will assume responsibility for all of the company’s funding activities as...
Firefly Festival ready for bigger, better second year | WDDE 91.1 FM
60,000 people are expected to flock to Delaware’s state capital for the 2nd annual Firefly Festival starting today.That’s about twice the number of people that showed up for Firefly’s inaugural weekend last July. Full...
Workers comp bill gets overwhelming approval from General Assembly
Delaware’s General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the recommendations made by the Workers’ Compensation Task Force headed by Lt. Gov. Matt Denn.
The group worked for four months to address the sharp increase in Delaware’s workers compensation...
Summer Blood Challenge under way in region
Blood Bank of Delmarva is holding the 11th Annual Summer Blood Challenge until Sept. 14. Participating companies registered in May.
“The Summer Blood Challenge is a friendly, Delmarva-wide competition among employers and community organizations,” said...
Promising results from two trials for expanded use of Incyte drug Jakafi
Incyte Corp., Wilmington, announced more successful results from two ongoing clinical trials of Jakafi for the treatment of patients with intermediate or high-risk myelofibrosis, a bone marrow disease. Jakafi is the company’s first successful...
Medimmune partnership aims to develop obesity drugs
AstraZeneca announced that MedImmune, its biologics research and development arm, and NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. entered into an exclusive agreement to discover, develop drugs from NGM’s enteroendocrine cell (EEC) program for the treatment of type...
