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DPH Releases First Drug Overdose Mortality Surveillance Report

Delaware Health and Social Services | Division of Public Health | News | Date Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2019

WILMINGTON  – For the first time, the Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) through the integration of 12 multi-agency datasets, has developed a demographic picture of the Delawareans who died from drug overdoses in 2017. DPH released the Drug Overdose Mortality Surveillance Report, Delaware, 2017, in Wilmington on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019. In addition to […]




DelDOT Earns Credit Rating Upgrade

Department of Transportation | Kent County | New Castle County | News | Sussex County | Date Posted: Monday, August 12, 2019

Secretary of Transportation Jennifer Cohan announced today that Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded the Delaware Transportation Authority’s bond rating from Aa2 to Aa1, and that Standard & Poor’s has affirmed its ‘AA+’ rating to the Authority’s senior revenue bonds series. Moody’s has also upgraded to Aa3 from A1 the rating on the authority’s outstanding US […]




State awards federal grants for new, expanding charter schools

Department of Education | News | Date Posted: Monday, August 12, 2019

The Delaware Department of Education has awarded funds to five charter schools as part of a $10.4 million federal grant Delaware won in October to strengthen the state’s charter school system.




Prison sentence for 2017 murder

Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | News | Date Posted: Friday, August 9, 2019

A Queens, NY man was sentenced by a Superior Court judge for a Wilmington murder. In September 2017, Sandy Lashley, 31, shot and killed Allen Melton of Wilmington after Melton attempted to intervene in an altercation on Cedar Street between his girlfriend and Lashley’s female friend. Lashley pleaded guilty in May to Murder Second Degree […]




DOJ announces early success in child support absconder initiative

Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | News | Date Posted: Thursday, August 8, 2019

The Delaware Department of Justice’s Family Division announced that a new targeting of child support absconders has resulted in location of individuals who collectively owe more than $1 million in child support payments in order for them to begin paying support to their families. Led by Deputy Attorney General Phyllis Scully, Special Investigator William McGillan, […]







  Category: News

DPH Releases First Drug Overdose Mortality Surveillance Report

Delaware Health and Social Services | Division of Public Health | News | Date Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2019

WILMINGTON  – For the first time, the Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) through the integration of 12 multi-agency datasets, has developed a demographic picture of the Delawareans who died from drug overdoses in 2017. DPH released the Drug Overdose Mortality Surveillance Report, Delaware, 2017, in Wilmington on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019. In addition to […]




DelDOT Earns Credit Rating Upgrade

Department of Transportation | Kent County | New Castle County | News | Sussex County | Date Posted: Monday, August 12, 2019

Secretary of Transportation Jennifer Cohan announced today that Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded the Delaware Transportation Authority’s bond rating from Aa2 to Aa1, and that Standard & Poor’s has affirmed its ‘AA+’ rating to the Authority’s senior revenue bonds series. Moody’s has also upgraded to Aa3 from A1 the rating on the authority’s outstanding US […]




State awards federal grants for new, expanding charter schools

Department of Education | News | Date Posted: Monday, August 12, 2019

The Delaware Department of Education has awarded funds to five charter schools as part of a $10.4 million federal grant Delaware won in October to strengthen the state’s charter school system.




Prison sentence for 2017 murder

Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | News | Date Posted: Friday, August 9, 2019

A Queens, NY man was sentenced by a Superior Court judge for a Wilmington murder. In September 2017, Sandy Lashley, 31, shot and killed Allen Melton of Wilmington after Melton attempted to intervene in an altercation on Cedar Street between his girlfriend and Lashley’s female friend. Lashley pleaded guilty in May to Murder Second Degree […]




DOJ announces early success in child support absconder initiative

Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | News | Date Posted: Thursday, August 8, 2019

The Delaware Department of Justice’s Family Division announced that a new targeting of child support absconders has resulted in location of individuals who collectively owe more than $1 million in child support payments in order for them to begin paying support to their families. Led by Deputy Attorney General Phyllis Scully, Special Investigator William McGillan, […]