Delaware Joins National Suit Against Trump Administration’s Title X “Gag Rule”
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, March 4, 2019
Rule change threatens funding for Delaware clinics serving thousands of patients WILMINGTON – Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced Monday that Delaware will join 19 sister states and the District of Columbia in a national lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Trump Administration’s new “gag rule” altering the federal Title X family planning program. The suit, which is […]
Attorney General Jennings Announces Independent Review of Hair Evidence in Some Pre-2000 Convictions
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, March 4, 2019
WILMINGTON – Citing the FBI’s acknowledgement of a decades-long pattern of flawed testimony from one of its forensic units, Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced Monday that the Delaware Department of Justice (DOJ) has initiated an independent review of criminal convictions involving potentially questionable hair evidence. The FBI regularly used microscopic hair comparison analysis as a […]
Business students take home state honors
Department of Education | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, March 4, 2019
Students from across the state took home honors from the BPA State Conference in Dover last week. Lists of the winners in each category for both middle and high school competitions are available.
Guilty Pleas for Bank Robber and Drug Dealer
Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, March 1, 2019
A 49-year-old Townsend man has pled guilty to robbing a Middletown bank. Deputy Attorney General Rebecca Song secured the plea from Nathaniel Lester with the assistance of social worker Crystal Pitts. Detective Julia Fabbroni of the Middletown Police Department was the Chief Investigating Officer. In November 2018, Lester walked into the Fulton Bank branch in […]
Emergency quarantine declared for pest threatening Delaware
Department of Agriculture | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, March 1, 2019
Photos are available for media use on Flickr. Dover, Del. – The Delaware Department of Agriculture (DDA) announced today that they are quarantining eleven zip codes in New Castle County to eradicate, control, and prevent the spread of spotted lanternfly in Delaware and to surrounding states. The spotted lanternfly is a destructive invasive plant hopper […]
