FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what has already happened in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
DAMASCUS, Syria — Twin suicide car bombs exploded outside a military intelligence building and killed 55 people Thursday, tossing mangled bodies in the street in the deadliest attack against a regime target since the Syrian uprising began 14 months ago.
Delaware Area Career Center student Kenneth Ruzika was killed Tuesday in a crash near Mill Run Crossing. Police and paramedics arrived on the scene shortly before 11 a.m., Delaware City Police Capt. Bruce Pijanowski said. Ruzika, who was a passenger in the car, was pronounced dead at the scene.
How better to get settlers to move into uncharted and untamed lands than to promise them the sustainability and wealth that comes from the ownership of land? Give them the land for free on the promise that they will go and settle that land, turning it from wilderness to useable farmland, timberland or pasture. The policy worked for America, it worked for the Spanish in Florida and it worked for Mexico in parts of what is now the American Southwest.
A Delaware City man was arrested after he allegedly forced his way into an occupied van, crashed it into a mobile home, broke into a nearby trailer, stole a parked vehicle, then fled to a home about a half-mile away.
Do you have a family heirloom, a curious knickknack or an objet d’art hanging around your house and you’ve always wondered if it is worth anything? Here’s your chance to find out, and to help out the Delaware County District Library’s Friends of the Library (FOL) at the same time.
Delaware proclaimed itself a Purple Heart City to recognize those in the community and throughout the nation who have been wounded or killed in combat.
Tom’s been out stargazing 12 nights in a row, so he’s too tired to write his column this week. Instead, he has asked the intrepid CAPTAIN ASTRO to answer some of the emails that have been pouring in from readers.