Students from Delaware high school and college technical education programs won the nation's highest awards at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference.

A second round of "tea parties" took place throughout Delaware on July 2, a protest against Obama administration healthcare reform plans. Click the link above for a photo gallery from the Georgetown rally, on The Circle.

Indian River volunteer firefighters responded to a July 1 report of a car fire at Massey's Landing.

37th District Rep. Joe Booth (R-Georgetown) and Sussex County Assessment Division Director Eddy Parker (D-Bridgeville) have been selected as candidates for the Delaware State Senate District 19 seat, left vacant by the passing of Sen. Thurman Adams last week.

Click the link above for Fourth of July event listings in and around Sussex County. Click here to send us your Independance Day celebration photos!

In recent weeks, a number of media outlets, including the Associated Press, have reported that U.S. Congressional leaders are considering a new federal tax on soda and other non-alcoholic beverages as a means of paying for health care reform. Several recent editorials have called the tax the first step on a slippery slope toward the taxation of all fattening foods.