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SALISBURY , Md.- Maryland State Police have arrested a 32-year-old man accused of stealing a variety of electronics and other items from a Salisbury area home.

GEORGETOWN , Del.- The Sussex County Division of Environmental Services will perform an annual flush of water lines in the Dewey Beach Water District, from March 29 to April 2.

WASHINGTON (AP)- Let the count begin. More than 120 million U.S. census forms begin arriving Monday in mailboxes around the country, in the government’s once-a-decade population count that will be used to divvy up congressional seats and more than $400 billion in federal aid.

DOVER — A woman convicted of feeding her husband a Valium-laced macaroni salad before her accomplice stabbed him 28 times is again asking state officials to commute her prison sentence.

WILMINGTON — A 14-year-old boy brought to the New Castle County courthouse on an outstanding Family Court warrant is facing even more legal problems.

DOVER — A state panel has boosted Delaware’s official revenue estimates, but officials says underlying economic conditions are still a concern.

RICHMOND , Va. (AP)- A bill establishing an abortion-rights license plate is headed to Gov. Bob McDonnell, who has said he doesn’t support the organization that would receive money from the plates.

HOCKESSIN , Del.- Delaware State Police have arrested two teens accused of breaking into a Hockessin Little League field and defacing a building there.

SALISBURY , Md.- A 27-year-old man who robbed a PNC Bank branch in Salisbury last fall has been sentenced to a decade in prison for the crime.

Polar Bear Plunge Raises $500K for Special Olympics in Del. Polar Bear Plunge organizers say 2,321 people helped raise more than $500,000 for Special Olympics Delaware.

DOVER , Del. (AP)- Delaware’s House majority leader says lawmakers will likely vote in the next three weeks on a bill that would allow a limited number of casinos in the state.

DOVER — The luck o’ the Irish was not with 17 people who were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs in the first week of a St. Patrick’s Day holiday initiative.

BETHANY BEACH — Mayor Tony McClenny is recovering in the hospital following quadruple bypass surgery completed Wednesday in the wake of a heart attack, said Vice Mayor Carol Olmstead.

BETHANY BEACH — The town is drafting an ordinance that council members said would prevent developers and landowners from creating irregularly shaped lots to circumvent the town’s current code.

SOUTH BETHANY — The towns of Bethany Beach, Millville, Ocean View and South Bethany are considering teaming up to renegotiate their contracts, which will expire within one year of each other, with cable provider Mediacom.

SOUTH BETHANY — The Town Council recently approved a non-binding referendum to gauge public support of a proposal to create a town park in the wooded lot adjacent to Town Hall.

Are we a country of citizens concerned with common welfare? If yes, then there is a moral imperative to extend health care to uninsureds and restrain insurance companies’ well-known abuses.

In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in El Cajon, Calif.

ANNAPOLIS , Md. (AP)- Maryland legislators may require state university system employees to start paying half the cost of tuition for themselves and their children to solve state budget woes.

DOVER , Del.- Six men are facing charges after being accused of trying to solicit an undercover police officer for sex acts during a week-long sting operation that occurred last week in a Dover city park.

Benjamin and Erika Sifrit were convicted in separate trials. OCEAN CITY , Md. (AP)- A man who with his wife murdered a couple in Ocean City in 2002 has filed from divorce from her on the grounds she is a “convicted felon.”

A Sussex County horse rescue group is seeing an increase in the number of horses people are trying to drop off because they can no longer care for them.

OCEAN PINES , Md.- Right now some Ocean Pines residents could be getting notices that their home will be foreclosed. For the first time in years, the Ocean Pines homeowners association will foreclose on property owners who owe several years of assessment fees.

PARKERSBURG , W.Va. (AP)- The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.

• Structure fire in Delmar, Md. at 12:26 p.m. Delmar Volunteer Fire Company responded.

Thirteen students from Indian River High School have qualified for the Business Professionals of America 2010 National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, Ca., on May 4.

FREDERICK, Md. — Frederick County Sheriff’s officials have identified a body found last week in a nearby lake, confirming it was not the 29-year-old missing Selbyville man.

FREDERICK, Md. — The sheriff’s office in Frederick County, Md., has confirmed that a body found on the outskirts of the county last week is not that of missing Selbyville man Greg Forte.

SALISBURY, Md.- Maryland’s House of Delegates has approved a measure to ban drivers from reading text messages while driving. Lawmakers said the bill is needed to close a loophole that leads to dangerous driving.