ANNAPOLIS — Maryland House Speaker Michael Busch says the possibility of developing Internet gambling in the state will be under consideration in a special session next week. The speaker briefly noted the possibility in a memo sent to members of ...

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DOVER, Del. — Gov. Jack Markell has signed a bill authorizing online betting in Delaware and more venues for sports wagering and other gambling. Markell signed the measure Thursday, less than 24 hours after it narrowly passed the state Senate. ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — A killer who had faced execution this week told a judge Wednesday that he agrees to spend the rest of his life in prison and to drop all further legal challenges regarding his murder conviction in return ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — The family of a Delaware woman killed by the man who had his death sentence commuted this week by Gov. Jack Markell says the focus should be on the 26-year-old woman they lost. The News Journal reports ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — A Superior Court judge is holding a hearing to put final approval to Gov. Jack Markell’s decision to commute the death sentence of a man who was facing execution this week for the murder of his former ...

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DOVER, Del. — The state Board of Pardons is recommending that Gov. Jack Markell grant clemency to a man facing execution this week for the 1990 murder of his former girlfriend. The state is scheduled to execute Robert Gattis, 49, ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — A judge on Wednesday refused to delay this month’s execution of a convicted killer whose attorneys are looking to commute his sentence, arguing the courts have never properly considered the abuse the man suffered as a child ...

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DOVER, Del. — The dawning of the new year in Delaware brings with it a new law allowing same-sex couples to enter into legally recognized civil unions. The new law takes effect at 10 a.m. Sunday. That means most same-sex ...

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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Delaware’s governor says he appreciates that beachgoers obeyed an evacuation warning before Hurricane Irene hit, but now he wants them back for the Labor Day weekend. Gov. Jack Markell says he wants to make it clear ...

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DOVER, Del. — Gov. Jack Markell and other state officials are touting a bill aimed at cracking down on repeat inebriated drivers, but Mothers Against Drunk Driving says the measure does not go far enough. The bill revises prison sentences ...

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