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2 weeks ago | 
wdel.com | Frank Gerace
A pedestrian was killed when he was hit by a car on Augustine Cutoff Friday night, and Delaware State Police are looking for the car that hit him, and whoever was driving it. The man was walking southbound on Augustine Cutoff near Alapocas Drive around 11:35 p.m. when he was hit, and the driver of the vehicle didn't stop, police said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, and police are withholding his name pending notification of his family.
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2 weeks ago | 
wdel.com | Frank Gerace
A Newark man is behind bars for allegedly attacking and robbing another man at a Wawa store in Bear back in December. 30-year-old Joshua Bostic tried to grab the victim's cash as the victim was walking away from the ATM at the store on Route 40 back on December 2nd, Delaware State Police said. The victim was able to hold onto his money at first, but Bostic attacked him again, this time grabbing some of the cash before running off toward Salem Church Road.
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1 month ago | 
wdel.com | Frank Gerace
A bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally-ill patients in Delaware has passed the state House and moved on to the Senate. House Bill 140 passed the House Tuesday. The measure would require a designated medical professional to confirm that a terminally-ill patient with a life expectancy of fewer than 6 months is able to make an informed, rational and voluntary decision to get and administer a lethal dose of a prescribed drug.
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1 month ago | 
wdel.com | Frank Gerace
A 17-year-old boy is hospitalized after he was shot in Wilmington Saturday afternoon. Officers found the teen in the 1300 block of Banning Street shortly before 4:30 p.m., city police said. He was in stable condition when he was taken to the hospital.
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1 month ago | 
wdel.com | Frank Gerace
A student at the Islamic Academy of Delaware in Newark is this year's winner of the Delaware Regional Spelling Bee. Siara Husain won Saturday's event at Delaware Technical and Community College's Terry Campus when she correctly spelled "codswallop," which means "nonsense."Siara now goes on to represent Delaware at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC in late May.
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1 month ago | 
wdel.com | Frank Gerace
A Milford man is in prison after racking up a 5th DUI charge. A trooper pulled over 36-year-old Maurice Finney after the cop saw Finney's SUV swerving along Coastal Highway near Postal Lane in Lewes around 1:30 Friday morning, Delaware State Police said. After failing field sobriety tests, Finney was charged with DUI, and a computer check revealed that he'd previously been convicted of that offense 4 times.
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1 month ago | 
wdel.com | Frank Gerace
A Wilmington man is behind bars, accused of trying to zap a store clerk with a Taser during a Christmas Eve robbery attempt. 48-year-old Vincent Vari tried to use the Taser as he demanded cash from the register at Dollar General on East Newport Pike on the night of December 24th, Delaware State Police said. The worker was able to push Vari away and grab a baseball bat, and Vari ran off. Investigators identified Vari as the suspect, and he was picked up Friday.
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1 month ago | 
wdel.com | Frank Gerace
A Virginia man is charged with felony assault, resulting from an argument in a fast food restaurant parking lot in Rehoboth Beach. 30-year-old Charles Gehman attacked a 65-year-old man during a dispute over traffic and parking in the lot at Popeye's in the 19 thousand block of Coastal Highway Saturday morning, Delaware State Police said. The victim suffered minor injuries, and Gehman got into his car and drove away, but troopers caught up to him a short time later.
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1 month ago | 
wdel.com | Frank Gerace
A Kansas man is in custody, facing several felony counts for allegedly stealing metal from the roof of a Delaware business. Troopers spotted 65-year-old Michael Paulino on the roof of Reybold Homes on Route 40 Friday afternoon, removing pieces of metal from the roof and throwing them to the ground near his parked car, Delaware State Police said.
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2 months ago | 
wdel.com | Frank Gerace
A Lewes man is behind bars for allegedly carjacking a wheelchair-bound man at knifepoint in a Newark-area hotel parking lot. 44-year-old Jarad Hammond approached the victim's car Friday morning in the parking lot of Sonesta Suites on Chapman Road and asked the victim if he needed help with his wheelchair, Delaware State Police said. When the victim said he didn't, Hammond walked a short distance away, but came back, threatened the victim with a knife and ordered him out of the car.
