PORT ORANGE -- The 36th annual All-County Jazz Band and Orchestra Festival will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday at Spruce Creek High School, 801 Taylor Road.
The concert, featuring more than 100 musicians from Volusia County public schools, is free of charge to the public.
ORLANDO -- A 24-year-old African elephant died Tuesday at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom after a brief, isolated illness.
Tumpe, a female, had moved to the Animal Kingdom in 2007, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
In recent months, the elephant had been suffering from skin sores and gastrointestinal problems, according to Disney, despite ongoing medical care by medical staff onsite, including blood , bacterial and viral testing, ultrasound and laparoscopic surgery.
DAYTONA BEACH -- A man got off the bus near his home and made a startling discovery while walking by the Pinewood Cemetery -- a human skull was lying upside down on top of a grave.
"Well, I thought it was a dead skull. Was it really a human?" nearby resident Calvin Williams asked when interviewed by WFTV Channel 9, which first reported the story.
The TV station said cops searched the cemetery to see if a grave had been dug up and none had been nor was there any vandalism.
Police said the skull. was, indeed, that of a human.
DELAND - A 28-year-old Holly Hill man was indicted Tuesday on a charge of first-degree murder in the bludgeoning of his father, in what Holly Hill police termed a "crime of rage."
A Volusia grand jury handed up the indictment at the Volusia County Courthouse against Juan Luther Reid, charging him with pre-meditated murder of 73-year-old James Leroy Reid, whose body was found March 2 in the family's home on Jarecki Avenue.
FLAGLER BEACH - The Flagler Pier, this small beach town's biggest draw from Volusia County, was closed indefinitely Tuesday becausw of the loss of pilings and croos beams that may have compromised its safety.
The 806-foot pier, built in 1925, became a risk over the weekend when some loose pilings and cross beams washed away.
City officials have not provided a timetable for its reopening.
ORMOND BEACH -- Florida Hospital Ormond Memorial is changing its name in July to Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center, officials there announced.
The change will go into effect in July when the hospital moves to its new multimillion dollar facility.
Officials said the name change is to honor the community that founded the hospital, which has served the community for more than 42 years. The new facility ill be built within the Daytona Beach city limits.
Courtesy photo. Here is a surveillance video photo of the man who robbed the CVS pharmacy in DeLand of pills on Sunday.
DELAND -- A man armed with a pistol robbed the CVS pharmacy,2497 South Woodland Blvd., on Sunday, of prescription pills, including the addictive painkiller Oxycodone, DeLand police said.
DELAND -- A man armed with a pistol robbed the downtown CVS pharmacy of oxycodone painkiller pills aftter pointing the weapon at the pharmacist Sunday, DeLand police said.
Nobody was hurt in the 11:29 a.m. robbery at the CVS, 2497 S. Woodland Blvd.
DeLand police were assisted by a Sheriff's helicopter in an unsuccessful search for the robber carrying a black semi-automatic pistol.
DELAND -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is investigating an armed robbery of a business near DeLand Friday night.
A single robber entered the store, Romeo and Juliet's at 320 S. Spring Garden Ave., at 9:35 p.m. brandishing a handgun and demanding money. The man then grabbed money from the cash register and fled.
DELTONA -- A Deltona High School student was awarded the top prize for short films in a national film-making contest from among a pool of more than 700 entrants.
Nick Martir won the award in the "Young Minds Digital Times Film Competition" for his short film: "Wacky Wilderness."
The competition's aim was to give students a chance to share their ideas and showcase their films with an emphasis on "addressing real-life issues," said co-founder, Amy Looper, of OneSeventeen Media.
