Delaware

The National Weather service reported that thunderstorm wind gusts in Delaware and New Castle counties Monday reached tornado strength.

A 3-year-old boy was killed when police say he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while running across a busy street in Delaware. 

The latest statewide test results show that Delaware public school students continue to have trouble making the grade.

Police say the 21-year-old was driving with three passengers when he started performing doughnuts in the Bayberry North parkland.

Officials in Delaware’s largest county have agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from a fatal police shooting in 2021.

Police say a Delaware man is in critical condition after being injured in a hit-and-run.

A suspect has been identified nearly three years after the shooting death of a Wilmington man, and she's already behind bars.

Authorities say the group conspired to rear-end drivers and then rob them when they exited their vehicles in a multi-state crime spree. One woman was abandoned on the side of the road after one of the suspects forcibly raped her at gunpoint in her own vehicle, according to the DOJ.

Hunter Biden was charged last month with two misdemeanor crimes of failure to pay more than $100,000 in taxes from over $1.5 million in income in both 2017 and 2018. He'd been expected to plead guilty Wednesday after making an agreement with prosecutors.

Delaware State Police are looking for a lone suspect they say tried to pull a one-man heist at Harrington Raceway and Casino on July 22.

A boater was rescued from the water after the Coast Guard said he jumped from his vessel when it caught fire Tuesday in the Delaware Bay.

Residents in parts of New Castle County, Delaware have reported groups of young people aggressively banging on their front doors in the dead of night in what police say is a new TikTok challenge.

Multiple people, including children, were rescued from a Wilmington dwelling after life-threatening levels of carbon monoxide were found in the building.

South American crime rings known as "theft groups" or "crime tourists" have already committed multiple burglaries in New Castle County this year, according to the local police department.

Police say officers, along with K9 Nova and her partner, confronted the suspect after he broke into the victim's apartment.

A minor tornado touched down over the weekend in Delaware and traveled for over a mile, leaving a wake of destruction that included downed trees and property damage. 

Officers retrieved Oxycodone pills, Alprazolam pills and Suboxone strips were recovered in a search of the man's residence, police say.