A jury acquitted 84-year-old David Zandstra after deliberating for an hour on Friday. Zandstra was charged in the summer of 2023 with kidnapping and killing Gretchen Harrington.

The nearly 50-year-old case left a lot of room for the prosecution and defense to fill gaps in what might have happened.

New Jersey and Delaware have joined Pennsylvania in a national initiative to combat the spread of bird flu by testing raw milk at dairy farms. In December, the USDA launched a milk testing program to detect bird flu in dairy cow herds. Pennsylvania was one of the first six states to join the National Milk Testing Strategy.

In honor of the forthcoming US semiquincentennial, residents helped form a vision statement to manifest the state’s future.

A trial has begun for a pastor accused in the 1975 murder of 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington in Delaware County.

The CDC says the level of respiratory illness, including flu, COVID, and RSV, is classified as "high" in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, while Delaware is classified as "very high." Doctors say they're seeing it all.

Rev. Dr. John Moore of Dover Christian Church in Delaware has memorized more than a dozen of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches.

The storm, which will hit the Delmarva Peninsula and Pennsylvania and New Jersey on Friday night into Saturday, is expected to bring 1-3 inches of snow to Sussex County, the National Weather Service said Friday morning.

Between 3-5 inches of snow is expected over in Philadelphia, along with lower Montgomery County and upper Gloucester, Camden and Burlington counties in South Jersey. The highest snow totals are expected across the southern half of Delaware and through Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland counties in South Jersey.

The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association on Friday announced that the indoor track and field state meet will be held Feb. 22 at the University of Pennsylvania's Ott Center, a roughly $70 million facility that opened in December.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Monday that California doesn’t “deserve” funding after wildfires unless they “make some changes.” “If you go to California, you run into a lot of Republicans, a lot of good people, and I hate it for them, but they are just overwhelmed by, by these inner-city woke policies with the people…

Zandstra was charged in the summer of 2023 with kidnapping and killing Gretchen Harrington, who disappeared in 1975 while walking alone to a Bible camp at a chapel where Zandstra was a pastor. Her body was found two months later by a jogger in Ridley Creek State Park in Media, Pennsylvania.