Thirty guidance counselors from southern Delaware high schools were briefed on the enhanced University of Delaware Commitment to Delawareans during a meeting held Oct. 31, at Delaware Technical and Community College, in Georgetown. Originally announced in 2006, the UD Commitment to Delawareans is an academic road-map designed to inform students and parents throughout the state of the courses and level of academic performance recommended for admission onto the Newark campus.

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The Delaware Poker Room is now open in Mill Creek and with a dozen tables and nightly cash games beginning at 7 p.m., it’s a player’s paradise. And not only is it legal, it’s for a good cause.

Salesianum High School’s soccer team had a battle on their hands for all 80 minutes, but
the Sals came away with a 1-0 victory over Middletown High Monday night to win the 2008 state soccer championship at the new Appoquinimink High School’s Jaguar Stadium. Salesianum won the crown for the fifth consecutive year, and for the sixth time in seven years.

Governor-elect Jack Markell announced Tuesday that he has selected co-chairs to lead his transition team's committees, which will be focusing on key areas of state government, including economic growth, education, health care and the environment.

The 2009 Little  League Senior Softball World Series for girls 14-16 will once again take place at the Lower Sussex Little League Complex, in Roxana, beginning Aug. 9, and the Aug. 15 championship will be televised on the ESPN family of networks.

Tickets for Sussex Central's Saturday evening Division I home playoff semifinals bout with either William Penn or St. Mark's will be pre-sold at the school's main office on Thursday and Friday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Delaware’s House Democrats have filled their three leadership positions as the newly elected majority party.

Gov. Ruth Ann Minner announced Friday that the 15-member Fox Point State Park-Glenville Project Team, a partnership between the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) and the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT), is the 2008 recipient of the Governor’s Team Excellence Award.

What will it take to get the U.S. economy going in the right direction again? Only time will be able to deliver a conclusive answer to President-elect Barack Obama and an anxious American public.

Women entrepreneurs have greatly leveled the playing field since the 1970s, when only 4 percent of U.S. firms were owned by women, but there is still a long way to go in Delaware before women entrepreneurs receive the same opportunities and respect as men. This is the second in a two-part series highlighting some of Delaware's great businesswomen and the challenges women are still working to overcome in the workplace.

With pointpoint passing and aggresiveness on both sides of the field, Tower Hill School shut out Brandywine High School for the second straight year in the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Asssociation Field Hockey State Tournament championship Saturday. It was Tower Hill's fourth straight championship and state record 18th overall.

The St. Mark's defense stood strong in the closing seconds and toppled defending Division I state football champion Middletown 20-15 in a first round playoff thriller on Friday night.

The fourth-seeded Wilmington Friends School Quakers (11-0) rallied from a 20-6 halftime deficit to stun the fifth-seeded Howard High School of Technology Wildcats (9-2) 26-20 in the first round of the Division II state football tournament on Saturday afternoon at Tower Hill. With the victory, the Quakers advance to play top-seeded Milford (8-2) next weekend at Milford.

Dangerous chemicals have been found in the dust falling on the Claymont commuity, according to the results of a scientific study conducted by residents and Global Community Monitor.