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New Smyrna Beach man dies in house fire; four dogs, too

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A man and four dogs were killed this morning in a fully-engulfed fire of his single-family mobile home outside the New Smyrna Beach city limits.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is conducting a death investigation. The resident, whose name and age have not been relased while authorities contact relatives, was found inside the mobile home at 2056 Porto Blvd.

An autopsy will be conducted by the Volusia County Medical Examiner's Office to determine the official cause of death.

Taking away right to bear arms won't change anything

Oak Hill, FL Mayor Douglas Gibson / Headline SurferBy Douglas Gibson
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OAK HILL -- Anytime children are killed, and especially when their lives are taken by a deranged individual using a gun like what happened with the massacre in Connecticut, we feel outrage, we feel the pain and we want this to never happen again. But we know all too well it's going to be repeated again and again like we saw with Columbine and others.

Man struck and killed by train in Daytona Beach identified

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Victim arrested dozens of times on misdemeanor charges like drinking in public

Train fatality victim Carl Labreck of Daytona Beach / Headline SurferCarl Labreck, 49, struck and killed by train, is shown here in a 2012 Volusia County branch jail mug shot. He had been arrested dozen of times over past several years on misdemeanor charges like drinking in public. 

DAYTONA BEACH -- A man killed by a train on the tracks of the Florida East Coast Railway on Monday night at the crossing near International Speedway Boulevard has been identified as 49-year-old Carl Labreck, authorities confirmed.

His body was found 75 feet from where he was struck just before 8:30 p.m. A train dispatcher called the crash in to authorities.

Investigators with the FEC and local police are trying to figure out he was standing on the tracks in the first place. The city had an epidemic of suicides by train a decade ago where several men stood in the path of oncoming trains, even with lights and sirens by the conuctors.