WILMINGTON – After six straight matches on the road, the Ursuline volleyball team returned to its temporary home at Salesianum School on Oct. 12. The Raiders liked the home cooking, earning a 3-0 sweep over Cape Henlopen. Set scores...
WILMINGTON – Neither St. Elizabeth nor Wilmington Charter could get much going offensively in their Class 1A football game on Oct. 12, but the Force's stiff defense led to the only scores in the game in a 14-0 victory...
Ethel Kennedy, the widow of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a human rights activist and mother of 11, died Oct. 10, her family said. She was 96.
Kennedy had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke on Oct. 3, her...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 9 considered a bipartisan appeal to reverse the death penalty conviction of Richard Glossip, a case in which Oklahoma's Republican attorney general and Republican lawmakers have also intervened on his behalf.
The Supreme...
PHILADELPHIA -- A fire that destroyed part of a suburban Philadelphia Catholic school marks "a time of difficulty" but "not one of despair," said Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia.
The two-alarm blaze broke out sometime before 5 p.m. Oct....
WILMINGTON — The lower school at Ursuline Academy gathered on Oct. 4 to celebrate the feast of St. Francis of Assisi and also its fifth-grade leaders.
The feast day of St. Francis is the culmination of the Season of Creation,...
OCEAN CITY, Md. -- In just 45 minutes, Archbishop-elect Richard G. Henning presented salvation history according to Sacred Scripture in an engaging keynote address Oct. 5, during the Eucharistic Congress sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington.
More than 2,000...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy back to the Vatican Oct. 11, four months after their last meeting, the Vatican press office announced.
The pope and the president had met in southern Italy June 14...
PENNY HILL — Jack Bradley rushed for 196 and two touchdowns to lead Archmere to a workmanlike 28-12 football win over Mount Pleasant on the afternoon of Oct. 10. Mount normally has its home games on Saturday mornings, but...
LOS ANGELES -- The state of California holds multiple first-place distinctions in the latest annual homeless report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development -- but none of them are positive.
No. 1 in the number of homeless...