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The Dover Police department is seeking information on a shooting on Slaughter Street last night that damaged a home.

Wednesdays fatal shooting is Dovers second homicide of the year.

Of the 32 people shot in Dover last year, nearly a third — 10 — were injured in the four-block area surrounding South New and West Reed streets. Only one other hot spot in the city, Simon Circle west of downtown, saw multiple shootings, with three injured. Dover also saw its deadliest year on record last year, with nine killed, eight by gunfire. That was a 300% increase over 2019, which saw two people fatally shot. The city’s homicide rate in 2020 was about nine times the national...

Isabel Hughes and Emily Lytle, Delaware News Journal Published 12:07 am UTC Jan. 10, 2021 Shuffling over empty blue heroin baggies and broken beer bottles, a young woman clutched a small can of beans close to her chest as she headed toward a decrepit yellow house on South New Street in Dover, its paint peeling and dirtied. Pausing by the home, she placed the beans on its porch railing, ignoring the “Private Property” sign posted in the downstairs front window. The colorful tampon applica...

Dover Post Christmas music blared from a nearby car as kids and adults – some dressed in festive apparel and Santa hats – paraded through Simon Circle, one of Dover’s affordable housing neighborhoods. FBI agent Justin Downen nodded, taking in the smiling faces, the voices shouting “Merry Christmas” to neighbors, and the arms full of presents, frozen chickens, pizza and other items that would soon reach families in need. “This is what love looks like,” said Downen, who is also ...