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After more than two months of competition, the busiest of the high school sports seasons winds to an end this week. The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association will wrap up its baseball, boys lacrosse and girls soccer championships by the...
WILMINGTON — Salesianum came into its DIAA baseball tournament game on May 28 at the fourth seed, but No. 20 William Penn gave the Sals all they could handle before the Sals captured a 2-0 victory. They will play...
CLAYMONT — Archmere got scoring from nine players, holding off a pesky Wilmington Friends squad, in a 14-7 victory in the quarterfinal round of the DIAA boys lacrosse state tournament on May 28 in Claymont. The Auks advance to...
MILLTOWN — A little bit of rain was not going to stop Saint Mark’s baseball team, but it took the Spartans a few innings on May 28 to figure out Wilmington Charter starting pitcher Justin Terranova. The Spartans, seeded fifth...
MIDDLETOWN — Ursuline’s first doubles team of Evelyn Parsonage and Caroline Peach motored through the first set of their state championship match on May 25 at St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, defeating Dover’s Janelle Gyambibi and Malini Lodhavia, 6-0....
NEWARK — The familiar phrase attached to law enforcement is “protect and serve,” and on May 25, recruits from Delaware’s Basic Officer Training Course put the second half of that into practice. As has become the custom in the...
Retiring TV news icon Jim Gardner recalled his dozens of milestone dispatches from the Vatican and reports on great papal events around the world as he was honored May 26 with the award named for the Philadelphian who became...
WILMINGTON  — Seamus Oliver, a senior at Salesianum School, has been named one of 40 recipients of the Jefferson Scholarship at the University of Virginia, where he will begin collegiate studies in the fall. The scholarship is awarded by...
VATICAN CITY  -- Pope Francis and Ukrainian families in Rome will gather May 31 before a statue of Mary, Queen of Peace, to recite the rosary for peace in Ukraine and in other places at war. Pope Benedict XV had...
NEWARK — Water Is Life Kenya (WILK) recently received a $180,000 grant from the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities, which is headquartered in Wilmington. The grant, which will be paid in equal installments, will support the WASH program that...

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