Following the successful completion of the application review, we are pleased to announce that 727 applications will advance to the lottery stage and will include all categories except the Open Retail category, for which we plan to have a separate lottery in December. The Licensing Lottery will be broadcast live on Facebook Live on October […]

WILMINGTON, Del. – Governor John Carney on Friday issued a statewide drought watch after receiving guidance from the Delaware Water Supply Coordinating Council (WSCC). Delawareans are asked to voluntarily reduce outdoor uses of water during the drought watch. This decision follows an assessment of conditions by the WSCC on October 25. The drought watch will remain in effect until […]

Dover, DE – On October 24, 2024, the Office of the Marijuana Commissioner (OMC) held a public license lottery to determine the selection of applicants across several categories, including cultivation, manufacturing, retail, and testing, for Delaware’s regulated marijuana industry. This lottery marks a critical milestone in ensuring a fair and transparent licensing process, providing equal […]

DOVER, Del. (October 28, 2024)—The Delaware Forest Service is offering $910K in funding for local communities through four grants launching on November 1, 2024. While the application period for the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Sub-Grant for Disadvantaged Communities is already open, three more grants will become available. Delaware Forest Service’s Urban & Community Forestry Coordinator […]

A Wilmington man has been sentenced to 23 years for convictions stemming from the 2018 murder of Richard Young. On October 18, Nasir Anderson, 24, was sentenced to 102 years in prison, suspended after 23 years followed by descending levels of probation for convictions of Murder Second Degree, Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a […]

Attorney General Kathy Jennings has secured a six-month suspension from a former Delaware investment adviser for viewing current financial account information of former Delaware clients while unregistered. The Investor Protection Unit (the “Unit”), the state securities regulator for Delaware, received a complaint from a former client of Robert Brandon Prettyman, an unregistered investment advisor that the Unit had previously suspended for making false statements […]

WILMINGTON, Del. – As the first year of grantmaking comes to a close, Co-Chairs Attorney General Kathy Jennings and Lt. Governor Bethany Hall-Long shared the results of the third-party report from independent contractor Social Contract with recommendations to maximize the impact of the governing body overseeing Delaware’s opioid settlement funds.     The report, Enhancing Use […]

WILMINGTON, Del. – Today, Delaware Governor John Carney, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced $127.5 million for Port Wilmington as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Ports Program, a $3 billion investment by the Biden-Harris Administration in zero-emission port equipment and infrastructure. The […]

Attorney General Kathy Jennings today joined a coalition of 50 states and territories announcing two significant cooperation agreements and settlements with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and Apotex totaling $49.1 million to resolve allegations that both companies engaged in widespread, long-running conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition, and unreasonably restrain trade with regard to numerous generic prescription […]

Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, alongside a bipartisan coalition of thirty state attorneys general, announced today the completion of the $1.37 billion settlement agreement with Kroger, addressing the grocery chain’s role in the opioid crisis. Delaware will receive over $2.7 million for opioid abatement, all of which will be overseen by the Prescription Opioids Settlement Distribution Commission. Payments are […]

A Wilmington man has been convicted in the 2023 murder of Cynthia Amalfitano. On November 1, 2024, Stephen Heck, 67, was convicted of Murder 1st Degree by a New Castle County Superior Court jury. The conviction follows an investigation into the disappearance and death of then 64-year-old Cynthia Amalfitano, Heck’s former partner, whose body was discovered in […]

WILMINGTON, Del. – Governor John Carney, on Monday, released the eighth annual report of the Government Efficiency and Accountability Review (GEAR) Board. Governor Carney established GEAR under Executive Order #4 in February 2017 to identify ways for state government to sustain its culture of continuous improvement. Specifically, GEAR aims to improve the quality, efficiency, and […]

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Noted Kannada actor and director Guruprasad was found dead in his Bengaluru apartment today, the police said.

A controversy over a WhatsApp group named 'Mallu Hindu Officers', allegedly administered by Kerala Industry and Commerce Department Director K. Gopalakrishnan, is in the spotlight.

The Kerala High Court has quashed a criminal case against film director Sreekumar Menon who was accused by a prominent Malayalam actress of abusing and defaming her.

Kerala Chief Minister and veteran Marxist leader Pinarayi Vijayan intensified his attack on the Congress, alleging that its general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, is contesting the Wayanad Lok Sabha by-election with the backing of Jamaat-e-Islami.

A political controversy has broken out over an alleged racist remark by Karnataka Minister BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan against Union Minister and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy.

The Pinarayi Vijayan government in Kerala has suspended two officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) on disciplinary grounds. K Gopalakrishnan, director of Industries and Commerce, faced the action over a religion-based WhatsApp group for

Kerala IAS officer N Prashanth aka 'Collector Bro', who has been suspended on disciplinary grounds after he publicly criticised a senior officer, has over 3 lakh followers on Facebook and 50,000 on Instagram

The Congress and BJP fight against each other across the country, but have a "strange love story" in Telangana, former state minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader KT Rama Rao told NDTV today

Karnataka Minister BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan tendered an apology on Tuesday for referring to Union Minister and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy as "Kaalia", which the NDA had slammed as a "racist" slur.

It is increasingly possible to use text analytics to explore different types of data. When a news story this summer caught my eye, I decided to see if I could use SAS Visual Text Analytics (VTA) and SAS Visual Analytics (VA) on customer complaints to provide information that might be [...]

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When Los Angeles County invested in Whole Person Care (WPC) it could not have known just how important the system’s flexibility would be. Anyone who has had an interface with health care delivery, policy, oversight and management know things change quickly. As data becomes a priority, expectations of the use [...]

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The city of Heidelberg, Germany is known for its romantic cityscape, which attracts tourists from all over the world. It also has the youngest population in Germany, thanks largely to the many students at one of Europe's oldest and largest universities. Perhaps less well known is that Heidelberg is twinned [...]

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September honors Recovery Month, emphasizing hope for recovery in behavioral health, especially from substance use disorders (SUD). A key motto of Recovery Month is that Recovery Happens, helping people know that even at rock bottom, things can improve.  We all need that hope at various points in our lives. Often, [...]

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Higher Education has been slow to adopt analytics in comparison to the commercial sector, but those institutions that have embraced a culture of analytics have seen significant and tangible results. Higher Education analytics can help in nearly every corner of academia including enrollment and retention, student success, academic research and [...]

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Government employees charged with monitoring environmental compliance face a downpour of information, wading through countless reports and stacks of paperwork to accomplish their mission. To help these dedicated public servants increase productivity, agencies should consider a broader set of tools to control pollution, enforce regulations and improve compliance. Although foundational [...]

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