A Lincoln man has been arrested on drug charges after being stopped by police in Harrington early this morning.

Around 1:45 this morning, 31-year-old Antonio Reynolds was stopped by police while walking near the intersection of Commerce and Fleming Streets. A computer check by Harrington Police found that Reynolds was wanted out of the Kent County Family Court. Officers say they found drug paraphernalia on Reynolds when they searched him.

Reynolds has been charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, and is being held at SCI on $8,000 cash bond.

Gas prices continue to rise slightly in the region.

The average for regular unleaded is up to $3.51 a gallon in Delaware, up two cents from yesterday and three cents over the last week. In Maryland, regular is also $3.51, up a penny overnight and up two cents over the past week. In southern New Jersey, regular went up a penny from yesterday up to $3.41.

Seven people who were wanted by the Harrington Police Department have been arrested.

57-year-old Michael Power, Sr. of Harrington was arrested for criminal contempt for breach of release. 40-year-old Samantha Smith of Greenwood was arrested for drug-related fraud and theft charges. 34-year-old Cherry Tucker of Harrington was arrested for theft and selling stolen property under $1,500. 20-year-old Christina Mohr of Harrington was arrested for theft under $1,500 and third-degree conspiracy. 38-year-old Garrett Wheeler of Harrington was charged with breaching the conditions of his bond during his commitment in jail. 24-year-old Joseph Casson and a 16-year-old from Harrington were each arrested for disorderly conduct, reckless endangering and third-degree conspiracy.

Everyone except Wheeler is free on bond. Wheeler is being held at SCI on $2,000 cash bond. The teen has been released to the custody of a parent pending a future appearance in Kent Family Court.

The Dewey Business Partnership will be hosting its third annual Kids’ Beach Party tonight.

The party will feature a DJ, singing, dancing, face painting, mascots, free food and drinks, and more. The party will be from 6 to 7 this evening on the beach at Dagsworthy Avenue. Following the party will be the first Wednesday night bonfire of the summer, starting at 7:30, also on the beach at Dagsworthy Avenue.

Parking in permit areas will be free after 5 p.m., and admission to the beach party and the bonfire will be free.

The Delaware Clean Water Advisory Council will be meeting in Dover today.

Among the items on the agenda are legislation to rename the Council, and also add program oversight from DNREC’s Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. The City of Rehoboth Beach will also provide an updated on the Wastewater Outfall Disposal Environmental Impact Statement. Rehoboth will also be making a loan request for the upgrades to its wastewater treatment plant.

The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. in Conference Room 220 at the Kent County Administrative Complex on South Bay Road.

Delaware State University President Dr. Harry Williams has been honored by his alma mater.

Dr. Williams was presented with the 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award from Appalachian State University in North Carolina on June 8. The award is presented each to year to an Appalachian graduate who’s achieved extraordinary distinction and success in his or her career field, and who has demonstrated exceptional and sustained leadership in the community. After graduating from Appalachian State, he became the school’s vice chancellor for Enrollment Services, then went on to work in administration for the University of North Carolina.

Dr. Williams has been the president of Delaware State since January 2010, and has overseen the school’s rise in the rankings of historically black colleges and universities.

Governor Jack Markell has a busy schedule today.

At 10 o’clock this morning, Governor Markell will speak to students about the principles of state government, and then answer questions as part of the 71^st Annual American Legion Auxiliary Delaware Girls State in the Senate Chamber. At 11:15, Markell will sign House Bill 64 into law, allowing parents to freeze their minor children’s credit to prevent identity theft. The bill signing will be held at the Del-One Federal Credit Union branch on East Water Street in Dover.

At noon, Governor Markell will speak at the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce’s End of Session Legislative Brunch at the Dover Sheraton. He’ll be joined by Senate President Pro Tem Patricia Blevins and House Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf. At 2 o’clock, Markell will cap off his day by meeting with Legislative Fellows from the University of Delaware in his office in Legislative Hall.

A Wilmington man has been arrested for drug possession and drug dealing following a State Police undercover investigation.

In May, undercover Troopers oversaw a pair of drug deals in which 258 bags containing nearly six and a half grams of heroin from 21-year-old Marquis Norwood. On Tuesday, State Police executed a search warrant at a home on South Van Buren Street in Wilmington, and arrested Norwood. A search of the home turned up 494 bags containing 12.35 grams of heroin in the dining room, along with a gram and a half of marijuana and more than $400 cash.

Norwood has been charged with possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance, two counts of delivery of a narcotic, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. He’s being held at the Howard R. Young Correctional Institute on $63,000 bail. The two children who were inside the residence were turned over to the custody of a relative.

A Smyrna man has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a child.

Delaware State Police arrested 30-year-old Michael Connor on Tuesday. Troopers started their investigation into Connor on June 11, when a relative of both Connor and a 6-year-old girl tried to enter the room they were in together, but Connor pushed the door shut. When the relative finally was able to get in and ask the girl what happened, she says Connor tried to perform a lewd act on her. The girl told detectives in an interview that Connor had been sexually abusing her since July 2011.

Connor has been charged with attempted first-degree rape and continuous sexual abuse of a child. He’s being held at the Howard R. Young Correctional Institute on $160,000 cash bail.

A walkaway from the Morris Community Corrections Center in Dover has been caught.

39-year-old David Kneavel of Sudlersville, Maryland failed to return to Morris from an authorized pass on June 7. He was being held there for violating his probation on an original charge of second-degree burglary. Kneavel was caught by police in Maryland on Monday, and has been returned to Delaware. He’s now being held at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna.

A walkaway from the Morris Community Corrections Center in Dover has been caught.

39-year-old David Kneavel of Sudlersville, Maryland failed to return to Morris from an authorized pass on June 7. He was being held there for violating his probation on an original charge of second-degree burglary. Kneavel was caught by police in Maryland on Monday, and has been returned to Delaware. He’s now being held at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna.

With options recently being discussed to raise additional funds for much-needed infrastructure improvements, Representative Dennis Williams introduced legislation Tuesday that would allow the First State to take advantage of historically low interest rates and modernize Delaware’s bond borrowing limit calculation for general obligation bonds.

House Bill 195 would allow Delaware to borrow additional funds for capital infrastructure via a graduated schedule based on municipal bond interest rates.

Currently, the state is limited to borrowing up to 5 percent of the state’s general fund revenue, a limit that has been in place since 1991, when interest rates were much higher. With current interest rates, Rep. Williams said this change would allow the state to access up to an additional $150 million for infrastructure projects.

The bill has now been assigned to the House Administration Committee.

Delaware State Police have arrested a 32-year-old Camden-Wyoming man for sexually assaulting his 15-year-old niece.

The victim is now 21 and told police about her former relationship with her uncle, 32-year-old Jason Anker.

Police say starting in October 2008, Anker would pick the girl and her siblings up from their New Castle County home take them to his house in Camden-Wyoming, where he would take care of them for the weekend; police say that’s when Anker started committing lewd acts with the victim; the relationship reportedly went on until the victim was 17-years-old.

Anker was arrested Monday; he’s charged with 1st degree rape, 21 counts of 4th degree rape and 1st degree unlawful sexual contact. He’s behind bars at the James T. Vaughn Correction Center, being held in lieu of $265,000 bail.

An update on a former worker at a Dover Daycare that was arrested last year after encouraging and then videotaping two 3-year-olds to fight, accepted a plea deal in court this week.

20-year-old Tiana Harris now faces one year of probation and eight years of prison time suspended. The judge also banned Harris from working in a daycare setting throughout her probation.

Hands of Our Future Daycare on South State Street was shut down immediately following the incident, however the daycare has since re-opened under increased state scrutiny.

Dover Police say an investigation led to the arrest of Harris and two other women after detectives viewed cell phone video of an incident that occurred in March 2012, in which the three employees watched and encouraged the children to fight.

Police say Harris of Dover, 21-year-old Estefania Myers of Felton and 47-year-old Lisa Parker of Dover were all charged with 2nd degree assault, endangering the welfare of a child, second-degree reckless endangering and conspiracy.

The Sussex County Council has heard from both sides of a proposed RV Park at the end of Long Neck Road.  Residents from numerous communities spoke against the RV Park.  Residents have many issues with the proposed RV community – congestion, crime but attorney for the Massey’s Landing Park community Mary Schreider-Fox says traffic is at the top of the list.  Since the last traffic impact study was done in 2005, County Councilwoman Joan Deaver during a public hearing for the proposed RV Park asked for an updated study from DelDOT.   The County Council has deferred a vote on the Change of Zone and Conditional Use applications because they haven’t yet received a recommendation from Planning & Zoning, but an updated traffic impact study is being requested.

Delaware Transit will join with other public transportation systems across the country to Dump the Pump on June 20.  National Dump the Pump Day encourages people to ride public transportation to save money, protect the environment, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and improve our quality of life.  DART First State will be taking part – and it’s hoped that people who have never used DART will give it a try.  DART’s fleet is being upgraded and now includes 30 hybrid electric-diesel buses and all the new buses use the latest clean exhaust technologies to reduce emissions.

It was oystercatchers at the Indian River Inlet Bridge – and peregrine falcon fledglings at the St Georges Bridge in the need of help from wildlife officials.  A pair of fledgling peregrine falcons crash-landed on the St George’s Bridge roadway while trying to learn to fly.  Their nest is atop the bridge.  When the 2 birds fell – a quick-thinking citizen called for help – and DNREC Enforcement agents rescued the birds and took them to the Tri-State Bird Rescue.  After some observation – both females were ready to return home.  A US Fish & Wildlife service biologist moved the nest to a safer location on the bridge’s catwalk and then climbed up with the fledglings and returned them to their nest.  After last week’s storms he returned to find one of the fledglings flying – but no sign of the second.  However the adults became agitated at an unseen threat – and fledgling #2 was found perched in a tree.  Both survived their fall – and the storms.

State Police have arrested a Newark man for indecent exposure.  Police say that 31 year old Charles Word was in a car at a stoplight next to the 45 year old female victim when she heard someone in the next car ask “How do you like it” and she saw the driver, Word, masturbating while looking at a laptop computer.  Word went to Troop 6 last Friday and was charged with a single count of 2^nd degree indecent exposure and released on $500 unsecured bond.

An additional $21.7-million in state revenue has been found by the Delaware Economic & Financial Advisory Council during its final meeting before the start of the new fiscal year.  State Finance Director Tom Cook tells WGMD most of that funding came from the personal income area.  The Budget Bill has already been drafted, so the additional revenue will most likely go into the bond bill.

Wednesday is the 121^st Annual Maryland Fireman’s Convention Parade in downtown Ocean City.  Beginning at 11am traffic patterns down town will be changed.  Northbound traffic on Baltimore Avenue will be moved to Philadelphia Avenue at 9^th Street and no traffic will travel on Baltimore Avenue between 12^th Street and 31^st Street.  Expect congestion on Baltimore Avenue between 11am and 5pm – consider using alternate routes into Ocean City to avoid delays.  Also expect heavy pedestrian traffic along the parade route so drivers and pedestrians should remain vigilant.