A man linked to at least six slayings including the fatal shooting of a Dunkin’ Donuts manager has been busted thanks to a Rite Aid cashier, who tossed a GPS tracker in a bag of cash he allegedly grabbed during an armed robbery in Delaware.
Despite pleas from prosecutors, probation officers , and police in two states to keep convicted killer Keith Gibson locked up, a Delaware judge authorized the.
The man suspected of fatally shooting the manager of a Dunkin’ doughnuts store during a robbery in Fairhill on Saturday is also a person of interest in at least five other homicides in Pennsylvania and Delaware, police said Wednesday.Keith Gibson, 39 who was arrested in Wilmington on Tuesday was expected to be charged in the murder of Christine Lugo, 40, Chief Inspector Frank Vanore said .
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In the year since COVID-19 first hit Delaware prisons, inmates have been disproportionately infected and say their pleas for help have mostly gone unanswered.
More than 2,000 prisoners across the state have tested positive for the virus and 13 have died, according to the Delaware Department of Corrections.
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Montgomery: A state Senate committee has advanced a bill that would let the governor pick the state’s top public health official. The Senate Health Committee voted 8-3 on Wednesday to advance the bill by Sen. Jim McClendon to the Senate floor. McClendon, an optometrist, said the change would make the position more accountable to elected leaders. But two other doctors on the committee argued it is wrong to interject politics into public health decisions. The state health officer, a position currently held by Dr. Scott Harris, is selected by the state public health committee, which consists of members appointed by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. The bill does away with the position of state health officer and creates the Cabinet post of secretary of health, who would be appointed by the governor. The secretary would