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A Lincoln man, 23, faces gun charges after he fled police when exiting the Jefferson Apartments in Lewes. Police monitoring the complex at 8:30 p.m., Sept. 15, saw a white Mazda exit, and they stopped the car on Route 1 south of Dartmouth Drive, said Lewes Police Chief Thomas Spell. While talking to the driver, he said, the passenger, Jefferson Ramirez-Rodriguez, got out of the car and ran into a […]

, An 18-month-old who was in critical condition following a Sept. 14 fire in Georgetown died the following day. The child had been flown to Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington the day of the fire, but the child died Sept. 15, said Michael Chionchio, assistant state fire marshal.  A woman, 87, died in the emergency department of Beebe Healthcare on the day of the fire, officials said. Damages to the home […]

A Lincoln man, 36, is sought in connection with a Jeep stolen Sept. 19 in Seaford. Delaware State Police responded at 5:20 p.m. to the 9000 block of Tharp Road for a report of a stolen vehicle, and a Seaford man, 62, told a trooper that another man had followed the stolen red 1990 Jeep Wrangler to the area of Hastings Farm Road and Concord Pond Road, police said. The […]

A fire Sept. 19 at a Lewes-area home caused mostly exterior damage, officials say. The fire was reported at 9:17 p.m. at a single-family home in the Tower Hill neighborhood off New Road near Lewes. Firefighters from Lewes, Rehoboth Beach, Slaughter Beach and Milton responded to find smoke coming from the home, officials said. Damage was mostly to the exterior of the garage and porch, officials said, and the fire was […]