Delaware Public Media
With the Department of Education poised to invest millions of additional dollars into Delaware schools with a new school funding formula, State Education Secretary Cindy Marten said the state needs to track what that investment produces.
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Delaware Public MediaWilmington has reportedly settled a police overtime lawsuit. -
Isreal Hale/Delaware Public MediaLa Red Health Center is a recipient of recent federal funding, marking the biggest grant in the organization's history.
This Week on "The Green"
AAA’s “Your Driving Costs” analysis for 2026 is the first to include hybrid and electric vehicles in their examination of costs and possible cost savings. So how do they stack up against gas powered vehicles? It’s a mixed bag with AAA’s findings showing electric vehicles offer advantages and disadvantages to owners.This week, Delaware Public Media’s Isreal Hale sat down with AAA’s Public and Government Affairs Manager Jana Tidwell to learn more about what people should know if they’re buying a car.
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Cornell University names Sally Yates, former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, to lead an independent review into how the school handled a former student's rape allegations. -
More than a quarter of a million people rallied nationwide to support school students demanding more education funding, according to government figures, with thousands of arrests. -
Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood. -
The campaign is led in part by India's "Cockroach" youth movement, which previously forced the education minister to resign. -
State media cited investigators who said the network recruited people to ride motorcycles through neighborhoods at night, trapping up to 10 cats a night. -
A former head of Germany 's foreign intelligence service was arrested on suspicion that he had passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor's office said.
