AstraZeneca’s MedImmune to add 300 new jobs at Frederick manufacturing site
AstraZeneca and its Medimmune business announced plans to expand its biologics manufacturing center in Frederick, Md. and add 300 jobs. Price tag is $200 million. The company earlier...
AAA reports ‘sticker delight’ as gas prices drop well below $3 a gallon
The national average price of gas has dropped below $3 a gallon for the first time since Dec. 22, 2010, ending its longest streak...
Pannil retires as president of Cecil County for health reasons
Long-time Cecil College President W. Stephen Pannil has retired from his post after 14 years.
Pannil was one of the longest serving college presidents in...
Summer Blood Challenge honors
Blood Bank of Delmarva announced the results of its Summer Blood Challenge:
Tom Saporito
Bank of America
Exceptional Blood Donor (earned most points during the challenge)
Artesian Water
Highest...
Perdue Agribusiness adding production of soybean oil from DuPont seed technology
DuPont Pioneer and Perdue AgriBusiness announced that Perdue plans to more than double the acreage contracted for Plenish high oleic soybeans in 2015...
Blood Bank approved for PAS platelets outside Delaware
Blood Bank of Delmarva gained approval for Platelet Additive Solution (PAS) platelets for its Dover Donor Center. This approval allows the organization to distribute single...
Selbyville man gets 15 years for key role in investment scam
Patrick J. Belzner, also known as “Patrick McCloskey,” of Selbyville, Del. was sentenced in Maryland to 15 years in prison followed, by three years...
Film to look back at history of Delmarva poultry business
Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. (DPI), Georgetown, is part of a team that has embarked on a new project to capture the history of the...
Chesapeake selling Bravepoint information technology operation
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation, Dover, has sold its BravePoint, Inc. (subsidiary, a provider of advanced information technology services and solutions, to Progress Software Corporation...
Delaware bucks national trend, sees small drop in manufacturing jobs
Delaware saw a small decline in manufacturing employment over the past year, despite a national upturn on a national basis. The drop-off came in...
Gas station chain owner settles tank violation case, pays nearly $2.9 million
The owner of a chain of gas stations in Delaware and Maryland has paid nearly $2.9 million to the United States in settlement of...
Giant chicken fry pan to make the rounds on Delmarva
Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. (DPI), Georgetown, the non-profit trade association for the region’s chicken industry, this year ended its sponsorship of the Delmarva Chicken...
Amtrak provides crude oil train details: McClatchy Washington Bureau
The McClatchy Washington Bureau reports that two loaded and two empty crude oil trains operate daily over Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor in Maryland and Delaware, according a document...
Bayhealth, Peninsula form health care alliance
Bayhealth of Dover with hospitals in Dover and Milford, and Peninsula Regional Health System of Salisbury, Maryland, which operates Peninsula Regional Medical Center, have formed...
Perdue Farms opens another wellness center
Perdue Farms marked the opening of its newest on-site primary and occupational health care Wellness Center at the Perdue AgriBusiness complex in Salisbury.
The 900-square-foot...
Exelon, Delmarva owner Pepco seek merger approval from regulators
Exelon Corporation and Pepco Holdings filed an application for approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) of the proposed merger announced by...
Delmarva Power rolls out mobile friendly website
Delmarva Power and parent company Pepco have launched a new website that enhances customer service, especially for people using mobile devices.
The new design is...
Pfizer allows offer for AstraZeneca to expire
As expected, Pfizer allowed its $119 billion offer for AstraZeneca to expire without making a counter offer. The deadline is required under British law. Pfizer,...
Delaware, Maryland governors seek answers on Pfizer merger plan
Governors Martin O’Malley of Maryland and Jack Markell, of Delaware, have sent a letter to Ian Read, chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pfizer,...
AstraZeneca rejects $106 billion offer by Pfizer
Pfizer's slightly sweetened tax-driven cash and stock offer for AstraZeneca was quickly rejected Friday morning. “The financial and other terms described in the Proposal...
