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Delaware 2024 MLB draft picks include Friends slugger, Concord, Cape and Appo pitchers
At least four former Delaware high school baseball players heard their names called in the 2024 MLB draft, including one who has a chance to stay close to home. The Philadelphia Phillies selected Concord High graduate Luke Gabrysh with the 462nd overall pick in the 15th round of the draft, a 20-round affair...
We’re Surrounded! New Jersey Bracing for Massive Bed Bug Invasion
Bed bugs. The thought of them makes most people's skin crawl. It turns out that the bloodsuckers surround New Jersey. Bed bugs are tiny insects that have been around for centuries. These pests can be highly damaging, infesting homes, hotels, and other places where people live and sleep. They are...
Man thrown 30 feet after he was fatally struck by vehicle in Kensington: officials
KENSINGTON - Tragedy on a Kensington street as a man was struck by a vehicle and killed and a driver is in custody. The scene unfolded Wednesday evening, around 7 p.m., at East Allegheny and Frankford avenues, officials said. The 38-year-old victim was found unresponsive as medics arrived. He died...
Philadelphia animal shelter paying people to foster dogs, cats to help with overcrowding
It's a challenge that usually comes with the summer season: overcrowding at animal shelters.But shelters say this year is even worse."Last year in May and June we took in 60 dogs under seven months old. This year we took in 125," said Sarah Barnett, the executive director of ACCT Philly.The shelter in Hunting Park is now doing something it's never done before: paying people to foster animals."We're asking people to just open their homes for a month," said Barnett." Every adult cat you foster you get $100, or like a cage of kittens, if you do it for a month,...
Another jet ski abandoned on Philly street with same name written on its side
PHILADELPHIA - More questions arise as the mystery of Philadelphia's abandoned jet skis deepens. A second jet ski was dumped illegally on North 5th Street near Lehigh Avenue in the city's northern section. The unusual discovery comes just two weeks after a different jet ski was abandoned on the same...
Former Flyers goalie puts Haddonfield, NJ, house back on the market
Former Flyers goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov's Haddonfield house is back on the market. The luxurious 8,600-square foot house features five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, a wine cellar and a 19-foot-tall fireplace. Asking price?. $3.4 million. Here is the description from the Zillow listing:. Welcome to 401 Loucroft Rd, a unique blend...
Man who rescued 2 children from Great Egg Harbor River in Atlantic County has died
A man who saved two children from drowning in the Great Egg Harbor River in Atlantic County, New Jersey has died.He has been identified as Pablo Hernandez Cruz, 49, of Mays Landing."I talked to people on the shore, they said he just went under and threw the kids as far as he could and he never came up. He was a true hero," said Paul Horsey, who helped find Hernandez Cruz after he went under.This incident happened at Weymouth Furnace County Park in Hamilton Township.Authorities say two children went swimming there, which is prohibited. There are multiple signs posted in...
West Chester Chef Approaches Celebrity Status
It’s never too late to become a celebrity chef – at least that’s the hope of Gunner Funk. Earlier this year, he convinced his father, Social Lounge Head Chef Dan Funk to enter Carla Hall’s Favorite Chef competition and now Chef Dan is in the quarterfinals. Although, he’s still not quite sure how he got there.
What will Wilmington's Riverfront East look like? The details, by the numbers
More than three years after being officially announced, demolition and remediation will begin later this summer on the long-delayed $100-plus million project that will change the face of Delaware's largest city. Riverfront East, which will redevelop the east side of Wilmington's Riverfront to mirror the 30-plus years of development on...
Blues star who shreds like Freddy Krueger to play Delaware
Blues prodigy Christone "Kingfish" Ingram is set for a royal concert when he entertains The Queen in Wilmington early this fall. Tickets go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday, July 19. Kingfish's concert is two months later on Friday, Sept. 27. ...
Delaware's Behavioral Health Consortium approves $1.9M in funding, despite fraud concern
Behavioral Health Consortium members reaffirmed support for Delaware's opioid settlement funding process Tuesday, after Attorney General Kathy Jennings' June 28 call to halt grants amid concerns about potential fraud and abuse.
Delaware County Community College Student Earns Full Tuition Scholarship to University of Pennsylvania
DCCC's Chloe Johnson leaps from community college to Ivy League with full-tuition scholarship to University of Pennsylvania. Chloe Johnson of Paoli is going straight from community college to the Ivy League. She has been awarded a full-tuition scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where she will complete her bachelor’s degree.
Founder of Square Roots Collective in Kennett Square on a Redemptive Quest
Mike Bontrager, founder of Square Roots Collective in Kennett Square, served as a mentor at a Capital Fellowship 2024 event in New York. Mike Bontrager, the founder of Square Roots Collective in Kennett Square, is on a decades-long redemptive quest to achieve restoration through sacrifice, according to a staff report from The Praxis Journal.
Dog dies at groomer in South Jersey; business owner facing drug charges
The owner of a pet grooming business is facing drug charges after authorities responded to reports of a dog death last week in Gloucester County.According to Woodbury police, officers were dispatched around 1 p.m. on July 12 to K9 Kingdom.Ashley Jenkins says her family's 3-year-old border collie-Australian shepherd mix named Harley was dropped off at her regular grooming appointment. It's a spot she had been before.But the family's life changed in an instant when the business owner, Trevor Hunt, called to say the dog died in his care."(He said) that she had just suddenly passed and that her heart just...
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