NSB News is a 24/7 Internet newspaper in New Smyrna Beach accessed through NSBNews.net and VolusiaNews.net, launched April 7, 2008, by award-winning breaking news and investigative journalist Henry Frederick and award-winning blogger Peter Mallory. It is the first fully-online newspaper in Florida and among the few in the nation with continuous editorial content picked up by Google News Directories.
A ruling by Circuit Judge William Parsons, chief judge of the 7th judicial circuit, denied condemned death row murderer Jerone Hunter, shown here, a chance at having his death sentences set aside for his role in the 2004 Deltona Xbox murders of six people in a Telford Lane home, the largest mass murder case in Volusia County's history.DAYTONA BEACH -- Mass murderer Jerone Hunter is not getting off Florida's death row anytime soon, if ever, after a circuit judge's ruling Wednesday that he failed to prove ineffective assistance of counsel at his capital murder trial six years ago.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Jim Kosmas has resigned his seat on the CRA, the fifth board member to do so since April, which moves the responsibility for the disbursement of funds on the shoulders of the City Commission.
Like the others, the resignation was effective immediately, but this has a far greater personal tone to it by Kosmas who has felt disrespected by commissioners and even misled by his board's own attorney.
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NSBNews.net photo by Sera Frederick / George Richford, a controversial figure on the Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority, has resigned in the wake of the scandal involving the taxing agency's fired director, Nicole Carni.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The fallout from scandals with New Smyrna Beach's two special taxing authorities continues with the sudden resignation of George Richford from the board of the Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority.
Richford's letter to Volusia County Council member Joyce Cusack was short and to the point: "Please accept my resignation, effective immediately from the SVAA Board. Thank you for the appointment."
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The problem with trying to tell about a career in engineering is that most of the things that interest an engineer would bore the ears off of a brass donkey. The solution of difficult and complicated problems in science and mathematics is what makes engineering fun, but to the layman there is nothing of interest whatsoever.
Therefore it is the challenge of this blog to find personal stories from the world of engineering that the layman can find amusing and entertaining. Here goes:
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- One of the things I've learned early on as a journalist and reinforced over the years is that things are not always as they appear. Nothing could be more true than the situation at hand here in New Smyrna Beach, a beautiful seaside community with some ugly secrets.
I knew when I embarked on our investigative project "Show Me the Money: New Smyrna Beach," that NSBNews.net and myself, in particular, would be labeled a troublemaker. It comes with the territory.
PIERSON -- A man was found shot to death just after 6 tonight at the intersection of Lawrence and Barton streets in Seville, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.
No information was released on the victim who was pronounced dead at the sacejusta few feet from the roadway.
"Deputies have a K9 unit and helicopter in the area searching for anyone who may have been associated with the incident," Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught said.
PIERSON, Fla -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office arrested a 25-year-old man early Monday morning on a first-degree murder warrant for Saturday night's shooting death in Seville.
NEW SYRNA BEACH -- Following the introduction of a compromise redistricting plan scheduled for final passage in the Florida House and Senate this week, Representative Sandy Adams announced she will declare her candidacy for the new District 7, based in Seminole County and including parts of Orange and Volusia counties.
“I strongly believe in public service and working to make our nation’s economy stronger and more secure," Adams said Monday.
By Stan Escudero DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- Having learned in South Carolina that attack ads work, the two leading Republican candidates have been tearing at one another nonstop for days.
