A snow-storm hammered the Mid-Atlantic States and the US capital on Saturday resulting in power cuts and leaving emergency crews struggling with heavy, wet snow that stacked almost 2 feet on roadways and collapsed trees.

About a decade back, there were many complaints and investigations which involved a popular pediatrician in the Delaware area, Dr. Earl Bradley, and according to the authorities he might have molested over 100 children.

California based electric-car startup Fisker Automotive is all set to convert an old, non-functional General Motors unit in Wilmington, Delaware, into a plug-in hybrid electric-car manufacturing plant. The exciting new development, which has managed to interest analysts and investors all around, is scheduled to be formally announced tomorrow.

If sources are to be believed, automobile giant General Motors' Wilmington, Delaware plant might be functioning again, but under a different guise. As America's Vice President Joe Biden sets into motion his plans of visiting the closed plant on Tuesday, it is likely that he will be announcing its reopening as a platform for building of plug-in hybrid electric cars.

California-based Fisker Automotive, producer of luxury electric vehicles, has plans to produce electric cars at a former GM assembly plant in Delaware.

Fisker said it would produce 75,000 to 100,000 plug-in hybrid cars annually, starting from 2012.

As a mark of its protest against Delaware's plan of cutting reimbursements for drugs, Walgreen - the biggest pharmacy chain in the state - announced on Thursday that July onwards it would stop filling Medicaid prescriptions for the state.

The global auto crisis has struck yet another catastrophe – with the auto parts maker Visteon Corp resorting to the filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its US operations on Thursday! The company, a Ford Motor Co spin-off, clarified that the bankruptcy filings have not included its non-US entities or operations.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration have sent a team to investigate the death of two Delaware hospital patients who were given the blood thinner heparin.

The six largest manufacturers of baby bottles have agreed to stop selling bottles in the United States that are made with bisphenol A, a chemical widely used in plastics, linked to a variety of health problems.

In an attempt to restructure its debt worth $625 million, following its lapse in making an interest payment on $266 million of bonds, the under pressure flash memory maker Spansion Inc. Sunday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection along with its four US subsidiaries - Spansion LLC; Spansion International; Spansion Technology LLC; and Cerium Laboratories LLC.