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New Castle County police officer Joe Szczerba was stabbed to death in a fight with a suspect he was taking into custody early this morning, officials have told the News Journal. Officer Szczerba was responding to a call about a disorderly person in the Penn Acres neighborhood near New Castle, at the corner of East Roosevelt Avenue and Fithian Drive.

How do you steal a gasoline tanker? I know why you would. But how?

Carper is doing his best to sound like a Republican again. Tell Senator Carper to support the President and vote for the America Jobs Act today. Tell him that Democrats support creating jobs and protecting Social Security and Medicare, not sacrificing both to protect the tax cuts of the rich.

A short film depicting a day in the life of Governor Jack Markell will premiere tonight at the World Cafe Live at The Queen in Wilmington. The film was produced by students participating in the Jewish Family Services of Delaware Media Matters program, a media and video production class for "at-risk" youth. The students in the program shadowed the Governor for a day this past Spring. The Governor will attend the priemere.

So what were your thoughts on the Teabagging debate last night? I can never bare to watch, so I followed the reaction on several blogs I follow and on Twitter. Besides Santorum's Freudian slip, the most outrageous, disgusting and revealing moment of the evening was conservative crowd cheering the death of the elderly uninsured. Now, the Republican position on healthcare has always been that if you can't afford health insurance, then it sucks to be you. Now that has evolved to cheering for the deaths of the uninsured.

Dover city committee rejected a proposal that would prohibit city employees from making any negative comments about individuals or groups based on race, gender or other legally protected characteristics on social media websites, blogs or other online forums, including Facebook, Twitter and other online social media networks, no matter if they were on or off duty.

Some months ago, Richard Korn, the former Democratic nominee for Auditor, filed suit against state Auditor Tom Wagner, alleging that Wagner was violating a state law that requires the auditor to review school district budgets annually and has been doing so since changing the audit procedures in 2002. However, a Chancery Court judge has dismissed the suit, ruling that the Chancery Court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case, and that the Superior Court would be the proper venue.

...the GOP's innate racism would shine through... Rick Santorum on the GOP attracting Latino votes:

“What what Gov. Perry has done is he provided in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, maybe that was an attempt to attract illegal vote — I mean Latino — voters,” Santorum said.

I think it might have been a first, but yesterday Delaware Liberal had no new posts. No, it was not an extended moment of silence for the 10th year anniversary…

Tonight, at the regular monthly meeting of the Progressive Democrats for Delaware (PDD), the PDD will also form its’ 2012 Endorsement Subcommittee from its membership and begin discussions on requirements…

Let's hear your storm stories, and what damage you have seen or suffered. I just returned from a drive around Brandywine Hundred. Some billboards on Concord Pike in Talleyville are…

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