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Jordan in 3rd Circut, Pagans waive, man with guns and threat note, no to lottery suit, fir, falling art, teens in trouble

Senate vote gives Jordan appellate seat
The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed Kent A. Jordan to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, Delaware's congressional delegation announced.

Pagans waive arraignment on drug and gang charges
WILMINGTON -- Members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club and associates waived their arraignments Friday in Superior Court.

Police say suspect had 19 guns and threat notes
A 36-year-old man was arrested on weapons and drug charges after members of New Castle County Safe Streets said they found 19 guns, along with ammunition, in a bedroom he was occupying at his parents' New Castle-area home.

Court says lottery win claim a loser
The story of a 49-year-old Bear man who filed a lawsuit claiming he was entitled to a $5 million lottery prize even though he lost the winning ticket in a laundry mishap didn't wash with the state Supreme Court.

Former Speakman factory destroyed by blaze
WILMINGTON -- Bertha Wright was worried about her plants. She didn't know how or when she could retrieve her blood pressure medication. And more important, she wondered where she was going to spend the night.

NCCo courthouse artwork to come down after piece falls
WILMINGTON -- The piece of the colorful art work called "Floating Forms," that hangs above the New Castle County Courthouse entrance may be coming down after one of its pieces crashed to the building's atrium floor last week.

Teens in trouble
Delaware ranked ahead of all other states in the rate of juvenile arrests in 2004, 539 for every 100,000 juveniles ages 10-17.

Youths fear for their lives in housing project
WILMINGTON -- With a month left in the year, 21 people have been killed in Wilmington, tying 2006 with 1996 as the deadliest year in the city's history.

Girl says fear of abuser led to murder
Months before the 2005 murder of Johnnie Jackson, Chakkira Wonnum befriended Steve "Doonie" L. Martin, who also is charged with Jackson's murder and is awaiting trial.

Buy Nothing, Project Citizen, Shooting victim doing better, Lewes woman dies in crash and Dead NJ prostitute is from Del.

Slain woman Del. native, police say
One of the four women whose bodies were found behind a dingy motel near Atlantic City, N.J., last week appears to be a 23-year-old woman who spent most of her life in Bear and Newark. (helped out)

Woman, 89, dies after driving car into truck
An 89-year-old Lewes woman died Monday about 30 minutes after she ran a red light and crashed into the side of a box truck near Cape Henlopen High School, state police said.

Bear shooting victim in stable condition
An 18-year-old man who was shot late Sunday in the Sparrow Run community off U.S. 40 in Bear was in critical but stable condition on Monday. New Castle County police said they are searching for as many as four men in the attack.

Project Citizen moves into community centers
A project teaching school-age children about government and citizen participation has moved out of the classroom and into several Wilmington community centers.

Activists put 'Buy Nothing' on Web
After years of protesting against the frantic consumer binge that is Black Friday, three anti-commercialism activists avoided Christiana Mall -- the place where they were arrested last year after trying to encourage shoppers to "Buy Nothing.

Pagans, sentencings and teen shooter

Police say Pagans trafficked drugs, weapons
Gang members in Del., Md. and Va. had been under surveillance

32 Pagans arrested in drug roundup
Thirty-two people have been named in a 160-count indictment detailing drug trafficking, racketeering and gang activity "by members of the Pagan Outlaw Motorcycle Gang," the Delaware State Police said Tuesday.

Man gets 33 years in 2004 slaying
WILMINGTON -- A 24-year-old man who told a judge Friday his confession to killing a man in 2004 was coerced received 33 years in prison for the act.

Shooter gets life plus 140 years
WILMINGTON — After losing his partner in crime and nearly losing his life in a shootout last year, Cleveland Richardson got more bad news Friday.

Out of prison 2 months, teen arrested in murder

WILMINGTON — After losing his partner in crime and nearly losing his life in a shootout last year, Cleveland Richardson got more bad news Friday

Manslaughter plea, PD need help, 18-year-old sentenced, probation for drug paraphernalia peddler and plea for fake officer

Another man pleads in '05 shooting
WILMINGTON -- A second man pleaded guilty Friday to fatally shooting a 27-year-old man trying to collect a debt last year while in a city park.

Professor: Public defenders need help
WILMINGTON -- Controversial legal ethicist, renowned scholar and law professor Monroe Freedman encouraged Delaware public defenders to stop accepting new cases when their workloads become taxing.

Woman, 18, sentenced to life and more
WILMINGTON -- An 18-year-old woman was sentenced to life in prison plus 17 years Friday for shooting to death an acquaintance.

Man given 3 years probation for selling drug paraphernalia
WILMINGTON -- A 48-year-old Dover man was sentenced to three years probation under a new federal law prohibiting the sale of drug paraphernalia.

Ex-Marine fined for unauthorized medal

WILMINGTON -- A 51-year-old Felton-area man had to pay a $10 assessment fee Thursday after pleading guilty in federal court to posing as a Marine Corps sergeant major and recipient of a Silver Star. Dwight C. Johnson served in the Marines, but retired at the rank of lance corporal and received no decorations for bravery. He was indicted over the summer after he was seen last year wearing the uniform with the improper rank and the unauthorized Silver Star, which is the third-highest honor given by the Marines for bravery. On Thursday he pleaded guilty to wearing a medal without authority -- a misdemeanor. Magistrate Judge Mary Pat Thynge said she would have fined him more -- the maximum fine would have been $5,000 -- but knew Johnson did not have the money to pay the fine. Johnson lost his job after his indictment, but has since landed a new one.

Buy Nothing get new trial & Assault case reversed

Assault conviction reversed by top court
WILMINGTON -- The state Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a 28-year-old man found guilty last year of punching a "pregnant" woman who wasn't with child.

Nothing doing, say 3 mall protesters
WILMINGTON -- "Buy Nothing" bought themselves another day in court.

Russian trial standstill & teen woman pleads guilt to fatal crash

Second mistrial declared in slaying case
WILMINGTON -- After a second jury deadlocked 6 to 6, prosecutors hinted Thursday at making a third attempt to convict a 24-year-old Russian student accused of killing the girlfriend of her former boyfriend

Teen pleads guilty in fatal car crash
WILMINGTON -- A Smyrna teen pleaded guilty Tuesday to causing a crash in 2004 that took the lives of two 10-year-old girls.

Slaying trial jurors say they're at 'standstill'
WILMINGTON -- Jurors deliberating in the trial of a 24-year-old Russian student accused of killing her former boyfriend's new girlfriend sent a note to the judge Tuesday telling him they were at a "standstill.

Disbarrment, Jury gets Russian case, Elsmere man pleads to beating death

Attorney disbarred for using client's funds for personal use

A Wilmington attorney was disbarred after it was discovered nearly $120,000 of his client's funds were spent on personal uses, the state Supreme Court said Friday in a news release. William L. Garrett Jr. used his client's trust funds to pay credit cards, get money for himself or transfer funds to other accounts, according to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel -- the court's disciplinary arm. In its disbarment opinion, the Supreme Court stated that the "theft of clients' funds is one of the most serious ethical violations a lawyer can commit." The court also said that "any sanction other than disbarment would not provide the necessary protection for the public, serve as a deterrent to the legal profession, nor preserve the public's trust and confidence in the integrity of the Delaware lawyers' disciplinary process." Garrett has not been charged with a crime.

Jury must sift lurid testimony in slaying
WILMINGTON -- Jurors will return this morning for a second round of deliberations in the murder trial of a 24-year-old Russian student accused of killing her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend.

Closing arguments today in Malinovskaya murder trial
Closing arguments are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in the trial of a woman state prosecutors said was so obsessed with her former boyfriend that she killed his new girlfriend when she found her in his Brandywine Hundred apartment in 2004.

Elsmere man pleads guilty in beating death
WILMINGTON -- An Elsmere man pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to fatally beating a senior citizen he believed molested his 5-year-old daughter.

Sentence overturned, poser, Russian trial & UD player pleads

Ex-Blue Hen back gets 2 1/2 years for burglary
WILMINGTON -- A 21-year-old former University of Delaware football player received a 2 1/2-year prison sentence Tuesday for robbing the friends who took him in while he was homeless.

Slaying suspect questioned at trial
WILMINGTON -- It was a picture of wild obsession and deliberate misdirection that state prosecutors began to paint.

Jury hears about love, rejection at murder trial
WILMINGTON -- She went to a friend's party against his wishes, and he dumped her.

Man posed as parole officer, police say
WILMINGTON -- Capitol Police said they will review their security procedures at the New Castle County Courthouse after the Friday arrest of a 20-year-old Bear man who allegedly posed as a Probation and Parole officer and at least once this month entered...

1993 death sentence struck down
A federal appeals court reversed Thursday the 1993 death sentence of one of three men convicted of luring a 64-year-old man to the outskirts of Wilmington, where they beat him to death, reportedly with a hammer and the top of a sink or washing machine.

Jazz parade, 14-year-old kills friend, cop suit

Hispanics riled over racism allegations
WILMINGTON -- Members of the Hispanic community, incensed about a racially charged retaliation lawsuit filed against the Wilmington Police Department this week, are demanding those responsible be fired -- including the chief.

Boy charged with felony in friend's shooting death
A day after a 14-year-old boy was accidentally shot to death by a lifelong friend, a community is trying to deal with the loss and make sense of the senseless. (I helped)

Wilmington officer claims retaliation
WILMINGTON -- A 17-year city police veteran filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday claiming he's been retaliated against for reporting a supervisor's derogatory remarks about Hispanics.

Boy, 14, fatally shot with stolen weapon
It started with skipping school. It ended with one 14-year-old dead and his lifelong friend in police custody, suspected of killing him. In between, the two 14-year-olds allegedly burglarized a home Wednesday morning.

Bethany bids farewell to summer
BETHANY BEACH -- This year's funeral procession up the boardwalk was more joyous than last year's.

House 3, Cohen, habitual offender, softball suit dismissed

Dunkin' Donuts partners with the blind
WILMINGTON — Visitors to the Carvel State Office Building may have a sweet deal on their hands next week.

Talleyville softball league gets go-ahead for new fields
WILMINGTON -- A Chancery Court judge threw out a lawsuit Friday, allowing a Talleyville softball league to play ball next year.

Habitual offender gets 148-year sentence
WILMINGTON -- After being declared a habitual offender, a 27-year-old New Castle man was sentenced Friday to 148 years in prison on weapons and drug trafficking charges.

Man who killed parents denied release
DOVER -- Charles Cohen won't be preaching the gospel in public anytime soon.

Man who killed parents in '88 wants freedom
Charles Cohen had already made up his mind that he wanted to kill when he lured his dad into his bedroom one November day in 1988

Paths similar in District 3 race
What side of the 3rd House District people live in tends to determine what concerns they want their lawmakers to address: The eastern portion is concerned about crime, and the western sector wants more stable businesses.