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Tuis Star rolls to fourth straight victory in DSBF prelim

Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund | Department of Agriculture | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Tuis Star, driven by Corey Callahan, won in 2:02 on Monday, Nov. 10, at Bally’s Dover DOVER, Del. — Tuis Star made easy work of the competition in her $20,000 first-round division of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund (DSBF) series for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Monday, Nov. 10, at Bally’s Dover, delivering an 11-3/4-length drubbing […]




DOJ secures guilty plea in brutal rape and murder

Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, November 7, 2025

A Dover man has pled guilty to multiple charges including Murder, Rape and Abuse of a Corpse for the 2024 assault and murder of Myeshia Triplett. On November 6, 2025, Kyle Batson, 27, pled guilty to Murder 2nd Degree, Rape 1st Degree, Strangulation, Abuse of a Corpse and Theft of a Motor Vehicle. The plea follows an investigation […]




Delaware Distributes Initial First State Food Relief Funds

Delaware Health and Social Services | Newsroom | Office of the Governor | Date Posted: Friday, November 7, 2025

NEW CASTLE (November 7, 2025) – Nearly 60,000 Delaware households woke this morning to find First State Food Relief Funds from the State of Delaware added to their EBT card balance. The deposits represent time-limited support to protect eligible Delawareans’ access to food in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. Families will be receiving texts […]




Delaware announces presumptive positive avian influenza case in Kent County backyard poultry flock

Department of Agriculture | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, November 7, 2025

DOVER, Del. — The Delaware Department of Agriculture announced today that testing of a Kent County backyard poultry flock has returned presumptive positive for H5 HPAI (avian influenza). State officials have quarantined and are monitoring the affected premises, where a mixed species poultry flock has experienced a high death rate. The remaining poultry are being […]




Slugger On Deck Scores in DSBF Prelim

Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund | Department of Agriculture | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, November 7, 2025

DOVER, Del. — Jo Ann Looney-King’s homebred Slugger On Deck (pictured above) parlayed a pocket trip into a 1:53.1 win in his $20,000 first-round division of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund series for 2-year-old male pacers on Thursday (Nov. 6) at Bally’s Dover. Watch Em Win and Roman Raider captured the other splits. In the […]







  Category: Newsroom

Tuis Star rolls to fourth straight victory in DSBF prelim

Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund | Department of Agriculture | Newsroom | Date Posted: Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Tuis Star, driven by Corey Callahan, won in 2:02 on Monday, Nov. 10, at Bally’s Dover DOVER, Del. — Tuis Star made easy work of the competition in her $20,000 first-round division of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund (DSBF) series for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Monday, Nov. 10, at Bally’s Dover, delivering an 11-3/4-length drubbing […]




DOJ secures guilty plea in brutal rape and murder

Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, November 7, 2025

A Dover man has pled guilty to multiple charges including Murder, Rape and Abuse of a Corpse for the 2024 assault and murder of Myeshia Triplett. On November 6, 2025, Kyle Batson, 27, pled guilty to Murder 2nd Degree, Rape 1st Degree, Strangulation, Abuse of a Corpse and Theft of a Motor Vehicle. The plea follows an investigation […]




Delaware Distributes Initial First State Food Relief Funds

Delaware Health and Social Services | Newsroom | Office of the Governor | Date Posted: Friday, November 7, 2025

NEW CASTLE (November 7, 2025) – Nearly 60,000 Delaware households woke this morning to find First State Food Relief Funds from the State of Delaware added to their EBT card balance. The deposits represent time-limited support to protect eligible Delawareans’ access to food in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. Families will be receiving texts […]




Delaware announces presumptive positive avian influenza case in Kent County backyard poultry flock

Department of Agriculture | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, November 7, 2025

DOVER, Del. — The Delaware Department of Agriculture announced today that testing of a Kent County backyard poultry flock has returned presumptive positive for H5 HPAI (avian influenza). State officials have quarantined and are monitoring the affected premises, where a mixed species poultry flock has experienced a high death rate. The remaining poultry are being […]




Slugger On Deck Scores in DSBF Prelim

Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund | Department of Agriculture | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, November 7, 2025

DOVER, Del. — Jo Ann Looney-King’s homebred Slugger On Deck (pictured above) parlayed a pocket trip into a 1:53.1 win in his $20,000 first-round division of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund series for 2-year-old male pacers on Thursday (Nov. 6) at Bally’s Dover. Watch Em Win and Roman Raider captured the other splits. In the […]