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Members of the New Smyrna Beach Middle School Stingrays dance team were wrapping Christmas presents for customers at Barnes & Noble bookstore in Daytona Beach in exchange for donations.
(Photos by Henry Frederick). This egret enjoys the sunny and warm mid-week weather outside the Dairy Queen on U.S. 1 in New Smyrna Beach after a cold front brought nighttime temperatures into the low 30s. It's going to be much colder overnight Sunday with temps in the low 20s.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Overnight Sunday will be the coldest by far this winter season with temperature in the low to mid 20s, the National Weather Service in Melbourne warns.
A wind chill advisory remains in effect until 10 a.m. Monday. Even through mid-morning, temperatures are not expected to climb above 20.
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 227 PM EST SUN DEC 12 2010
(Courtesy photo) The Starlite Princess had to be rescued overnight Friday after getting stuck in shallow waters ff Ormond Beach. ORMOND BEACH -- The 85-foot passenger boat Starlite Princess based in Daytona Beach, returned to port after the vessel ran temporarily aground in the Intracoastal Waterway near Ormond Beach on Friday with 150 people on board, the New-Smyrna Beach-based U.S. Coast Guard said.
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(photos by Dale Smith). To loud cheers and whistles, Santa Claus disembarks the Florida East Coast "Christmas Train" in New Smyrna Beach on Saturday morning and is swarmed by parents and children alike. In the smaller photo, Jazmine, 5, Jayden, 2, and Myron, 4, children of Jessica Dubois of New Smyrna Beach, wait for Santa's arrival. NEW SMYRNA BEACH – A preview of what’s to come this Christmas was played out Saturday morning when several hundred families with wide-eyed and fidgety children in tow excitedly welcomed Santa Claus during a brief stop here.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- An off-duty k-9 officer walking his dog shot and killed an aggressive pit bull that was initially aggressive with his dog and then lunged at him, New Smyrna Beach police said Monday.
The incident happened Saturday night when Bruce Holcomb was wasking his own dog, a Siberian Husky, in his New Smyrna Beach neighborhood with his fiancee and her dog when they were accosted by a pit bull that had previously attacked his husky.
The main problem with American medicine is that it costs way too much. This could be improved by using market-oriented solutions rather than more government regulation and control. At this point in time, there is ample indication that market solutions would make things better while government solutions will make things worse.
The four areas of medical cost that should be improved upon are misuse of insurance, the unnecessarily high cost of legal liability, the high cost of developing drugs and the third-party payment of medical expenses.
(Courtesy photos). Thursday's County Council approval to purchase the sprawling Leffler Ranch between Samsula and Osteen as a futurewater supply paves the way for today's closing at $28.8 million.SAMSULA -- Nestled between Osten and eyed by the county as the water source of the future, the Volusia County Council's decision to empty its wallet to pay for the 4,806-acre Leffler Ranch has assured a closing date today in becoming owners of the property in the Volusia Conservation Corridor.
The purchase price of $28.8 million will come from three sources -- $12.2 million that's left in the county's 20-year Volusia Forever Program; $11.6 million advance from the general fund reserves, and $5 million from the water utility fund reserves.
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(Courtesy photo) A traffic stop led Sherioff's deputies to the Edgewater home of Randy Freeman, who was alledgedly running a meth lab.EDGEWATER -- An Edgewater man was stopped Tuesday night for having a revoked license during what started as a routine traffic stop. However, drug paraphernalia was discovered in plain view in his car, which led to further investigation revealing materials commonly associated with a meth lab in his home, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokeswoman said.
Randy Freeman, 29, was arrested and taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach.
We have added two new spotlight features to our Home page: "Volusia News Spotlight" and "NSB News Spotlight" to draw special attention to feature stories and evebnts that mioght get lost in the regular posting of daily news items.
We hope to procvide new installments for each of these in a given week. Our emphasis is highlighting unusual or special events that bring attention to something happening that goes above and beyond routine news coverage.
We hope that you enjoy these and other new features in the works as we close out the year and look ahead to 2011.
