Delaware News

Sussex County's general fund may climb over $50 million next year, fueled partly by increases in building permits and the realty transfer tax, a draft budget published Tuesday shows.

Sponsors and exhibitors are sought for an upcoming Garden Fair to benefit, "Planting Hope in Delaware," which created a garden at the Department of Health and Social Services' Herman Holloway campus on U.S. 13 near New Castle.

Delaware City's 153rd Military Police Company arrived in Kandahar, Afghanistan, three months ago to help handle what may be the most nerve-wracking mission in the war short of direct combat: training Afghan police.

A Memorial Day service, co-spon­sored by the Georgetown Kiwanis Club and Korean War Veterans Association, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday on the Circle in Georgetown.

Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.

The General Assembly's budget-writing committee approved Tuesday the first part of a plan to overhaul courthouse security statewide, a $3.1 million project that includes hiring more officers, increasing surveillance and reconfiguring the New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington.

Drivers, grab your wallets and permits. Paid parking season is back, and there are changes in store up and down Delmarva's coast.

Residents of the Van Dyke Village neighborhood returned to their homes late Tuesday after the area was cleared by officials investigating an explosion of military ammunition that critically injured one man.

The Quaker Hill Historic Preservation Foundation and Quaker Hill Neigh­borhood Association will hold their annual picnic at 6 p.m. June 5 on the grounds of the Wilmington Friends Meeting at 401 N. West St. in Wilming­ton.