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Senate Bill Lets States Tax Internet Purchases

WASHINGTON — Attention online shoppers: The days of tax-free shopping on the Internet may soon end for many of you. The Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on a...

Online Poker Is Back: Legal Website Launches in NV

(LAS VEGAS) -- Poker devotees will soon be able to skip the smoky casino and legally gamble their dollars away on the couch -- at least in the state of Nevada. ...

US Home Prices Rose by Most in Nearly 7 Years

WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices jumped in January, a sign the housing market is gaining momentum as it nears the spring selling season. Home prices rose 9.7...

Warrant: Son, Wife Also Suspects in Del. Court Shooting

Authorities who uncovered a small arsenal kept by a onetime police officer who killed his former daughter-in-law and another woman at a Delaware courthouse said...

Jazz Pioneer Donald Byrd Dies at 80

(DOVER, Del.) — Jazz musician Donald Byrd, a leading hard-bop trumpeter of the 1950s who collaborated on dozens of albums with top artists of his time and later...

How Retirees Can Help a College Town Thrive

America’s 76 million Baby Boomers are looking for a different retirement experience than the one their parents had. Making a college town a retirement...

Political Fractures Over Fracking

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)—a five-member committee that governs the water resources around the Delaware River—was supposed to meet today to...

Hey Panetta, What's Up With the Waste?

Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware fired off a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta today asking Panetta to "look in every nook and cranny of the...

House Dems Find Rare Bright Spot in Delaware

In an otherwise dismal-looking election year for Democrats, the nation's second smallest state is proving to be a surprising consolation prize. Not only did tea...

Delaware Wiccan Speaks Out on Christine O'Donnell

"I am not a witch." Only in the ever-wackier 2010 election cycle would a campaign video start with such an assertion, but this particular ad was for Delaware's...