DAYTONA BEACH -- Passenger traffic at Daytona Beach International Airport was up 1 percent in September, compared with September of a year ago.
During September, 39,547 passengers flew into and out of Daytona Beach. For the 12 months ending September 30, passenger traffic has increased 13 percent over the prior 12 months -- from 476,288 to 538,572.
Photo of Hazel Robbins of DeltonaDELTONA -- Hazel Robbins, the 86-year-old woman with Alheimer's reported missing Wednesday, was found safe several hours later about a half mile from her Deltona home, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.
A resident on Wakefield Circle, about a half-mile from where Robbins went missing, spotted her in his backyard at 2:25 p.m.
Robbins was reported missing by her son at 10:16 a.m.
According to the son, Robbins -- who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and congestive heart failure -- was home at 6 a.m., but walked away from their residence at 1107 Hastings Drive sometime afterwards.
The son called the Sheriff's Office after he drove around the neighborhood and couldn't find his mother.
More than a dozen patrol deputies, assisted by a K-9 unit, investigators and Sheriff's Office helicopter, searched for Robbins and checked area businesses, parks and cab companies," Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson told NSBNews.net.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The weekly Edgewater Observer's hyped posting of a photo of Mayor Adam Barringer on its Facebook page regarding the tearing down of some dilapidated buildings drew ridicule from citizens who wrote to NSBNews.net and other public forums.
If you have seen the woman in this photo, identified as Hazel Robbins of Deltona, the Volusia County Sheriff's Ofiice wants you to call 9-1-1.
DELTONA -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating 86-year-old Hazel Robbins who wandered away from her home this morning.
Robbins was reported missing by her son at 10:16 a.m.
According to the son, Robbins -- who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and congestive heart failure -- was home at 6 a.m., but walked away from their residence at 1107 Hastings Drive sometime afterwards.
The son called the Sheriff's Office after he drove around the neighborhood and couldn't find his mother.
"More than a dozen patrol deputies, assisted by a K-9 unit, investigators and Sheriff's Office helicopter, are searching for Robbins and checking area businesses, parks and cab companies," Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson told NSBNews.net.
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- They came by the hundreds in all kinds of scary costumes and captured quite a bit of candy along the way. Families, that is, for The 2011 NSB Halloween Parade on Canal Street. NSBNews.net will have a complete story later today with more videos and dozens of photos.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- People of all ages are expected to express themselves in costumes of their imagination during today's New Smyrna Beach Halloween Parade on Canal Street and NSBNews.net will be there with exclusive coverage for a third consecutive year.
EDGEWATER -- After 66 years on May 29ht 2004 President George W. Bush officially dedicated the World War II Monument in Washington D.C. to honor what Tom Brokaw called the Greatest Generation: Veterans of World War II.
BREAKING NEWS: Justin Riley, 29, shown here at left in a previous Volusia County Jail mug arrest, suffered a major wound to his arm when he was attacked witrh a machete early Saturday morning in Daytona Beach. A second man was gunned down in the street.DAYTONA BEACH -- Blood was spilled in a street fight in the Highridge Estates under the cover of darkness with one man shot to death and a second attacked with a machete-type weapon requiring life-saving surgery to close a deep wound to his left forearm.
The Volusia County Sheriff's Office has identified the 5:36 a.m. homicide victim on Aspen Street as 41-year-old Brian Leverett. Justin Riley, 29, underwent life-saving surgery at Halifax Medical Center for a deep wound to his left forearm.
Investigators with the Sheriff's Office's Major Case Unit have detained two brothers for questioning and a possible motive for the violence.
VCBJ mug / Edwin Wren, 19, is being held without bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail on charged with sexual battery of a child and aggravated child abuse, felonies that could net him life in prison if convicted.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 9-month-old baby girl discovered Thursday afternoon to be bleeding profusely from physical trauma to her body was sexually assaulted, Volusia County Sheriff's investigators have concluded.
That night, investigators rounded up a 19-year-old man who had been left to watch the baby. Edwin Wren is being held without bond at the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach, facing charges of sexual battery on a person under the age of 12 and aggravated child abuse. Wren was living with the baby's parents, who sometimes left him to tend to the baby, according to the arrest report.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 1-year-old child has been transported to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach with non-life threatening injuries earlier in the day Thursday after a neighbor took possession of the child and called authorities.
"The Volusia County Sheriff's Office received information about an injured child in the New Smyrna Beach area and responded to begin an investigation," agency spokesman Brandon Haught said. "Investigators are interviewing family members and possible witnesses to determine how the child was injured."
