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Every day now we awake to new more dire predictions of a massive nuclear meltdown in Japan in as many as four reactors, yet another revolution in the Middle East with a sadistic insane leader ordering his troops to shoot his own people, an unbelievable rising death toll in Japan from the earthquake and tsunami, and now a U. N. Security Council resolution that institutes a no fly zone over Libya.
EDGEWATER -- The New Smyrna Beach High School swim team has lost its pool at the Aqua Park Aquatic Center and as a result may fold, according to a story by WESH-TV in Orlando.
Photos courtesy of the Smyrna Safari Club / Tadpole surfing will be held April 2 south of the Ponce Inlet jetty in New Smyrna Beach, part of a four-day Kona Pro Surf Contest, that begins March 31. This photo shows an unidentified mom and her child in the New Smyrna Beach surf, practicing for the tadpole contestNEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The community's youngest surfers have been given the nickname of tadpoles, which Webster's Dictionary defines as a small creature with external gills that undergoes a metamorphosis to adult.
Courtesy photo / Florida Education Commissioner, who has ties to education in Volusia, said Monday he is stepping down from his post in June.TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Education Commissioner Eric Smith, who has ties to Volusia County, announced earlier today he is resigning his post, effective June 10.
SOUTH DAYTONA -- A 4-year-old girl drowned in a backyard pool just after 11:30 a.m. Sunday, police said.
Emergency personnel responded to 2130 Green St., and attempted to revive the child, who had been at the bottom of the pool 5 to 10 minutes, South Daytona police said.
EDGEWATER -- News of the Sunday drowning of a 4-year-old girl in a backyard pool, the latest in a series of pool dwnings involving pre-school children, prompted Edgewater Fire Services Capt. Jill Danigel to put out a press release with pool safety tips.
ORMOND BEACH -- Gov. Rick Scott today named Dr. Frank Farmer of Ormond Beach as Florida's Surgeon General and announced he will retain Liz Dudek as secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration
Courtesy photo / North Carolina resident Michael Del Vecchio, 21, fired several shots from a handgun during an argument outside a Daytona Beach fast-food restaurant with his girlfriend Monday, leading to his arrest on aggravated assault charges.DAYTONA BEACH – A North Carolina man fired two shots at his girlfriend during an argument today with her and two patrons at a Taco Bell restaurant, Daytona Beach police said.
Courtesy photo /Antonio Browning was arrested Monday on charges of breaking into a DeLand residence after he was spotted by a neighbor who alertly called 9-1-1.DELAND -- Three minutes after receiving the call today, Volusia County Sheriff's deputies were on the scene of a burglary in progress near DeLand, an agency spokeswoman said
