Remember how during Rep. Anthony Weiner's Monday press conference, he said the women ("about six" of them to be precise) he was having sexually explicit online relationships with were adults "to the best of my knowledge"? Well, it turns out he was also Twitter direct messaging a 17-year-old Delaware girl. According to Fox News, "Police here [in New Castle] are investigating direct online communications between...Weiner and a 17-year-old girl and are looking for any other young women who may be involved, though the nature of the communications wasn't immediately clear." more ›

Last night in Delaware, Tea Party upstate Christine O'Donnell defeated mainstream Republican candidate Mike Castle to win the Republican Senate primary. The victory for O'Donnell, a marketing consultant who got a boost from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, is being called a "shocker" and "stunning" as well as a "GOP nightmare." But the most interesting thing that came out last night was when MSNBC's Rachel Maddow showed a clip of O'Donnell in a 1996 MTV "Sex in the '90s" segment: O'Donnell, looking like a dead ringer for Elaine Benes, explaining why even masturbation is a sin, "The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust! " more ›

Just because new research suggests that marijuana isn't really a gateway drug doesn't mean we should be encouraging every numbskull with a pair of lips to smoke. Case-in-point: A Delaware state trooper stopped Edward Peterson, 24, and an unnamed companion early this morning for speeding on the Coastal Highway in Dewey Beach, Del.. He strongly suspected they had been smoking marijuana, but didn't realize they had been smoking idiotjuana. more ›

Delaware police have tentatively ID'd a little girl found Sunday in a men's bathroom stall at a Shell station in Delaware. They believe she's about 2 years old and that she comes from New York or New Jersey, but haven't released other details. According to the Daily News, the child's hair was "pulled up on top of her head, and she was wearing a puffy tan winter coat over a purple shirt with small flowers printed on it. She also was wearing blue jeans with pink, white and purple sneakers with purple laces and white ankle socks." The AP says she's been placed in foster care family while police search for her family. more ›

In MTV's drop everything email press release this weekend, which turned up in inboxes around 1:30 a.m., they announced that there would be a second season of Jersey Shore with all original cast members returning... unless you count the actual Jersey Shore as an unofficial cast member. This summer the guidos and guidettes will be taking over another town, and while the press release hinted that it would be outside of the Northeast, the NY Post says they're scouting locations in the Hamptons (which J-WOWW has been lobbying for) and... Delaware. Yep, Delaware. more ›

An ostensibly win-win program to reincarnate old subway cars as artificial subterranean reefs off the eastern seaboard has proven largely unsuccessful because the damn things are just falling apart. The city has been paying millions to ship the cars to other states, who received them for free, and last April the program was said to be so successful off the coast of Delaware that marine officials were struggling to cope with the influx of fisherman drawn to the suddenly populous underwater metropolis. more ›

Good news for metro mammals; the New York City tap water is still safe to drink, according to a report card released yesterday by Riverkeeper and the Clean Drinking Water Coalition. The longstanding environmental advocacy group gives our water system A grades for reducing fecal coliform from waterfowl, managing stormwater runoff and waterborne disease risk assessment. High-five! more ›

Art by John Blackford and James Fisher, photo courtesy John Barnes. more ›