ORMOND BEACH -- Beginning today, the Nova Community Center will be closed due to gym maintenance. It will re-open for normal activities on Monday, Nov. 26, with regular business hours.
If you have any questions regarding the closure, please contact Ormond Beach Leisure Services at 386-676-3250.
An out-of-state relative called the Sheriff's Office after being unable to reach an elderly marrid couple on the phone, leading to Tuesday night's discovery of an apparent murder-suicide in the home at 141 E. Woodhaven Circle.ORMOND BEACH -- The recovered bodies of a husband and wife, identified as 73-year-old James Ryals and 74-year-old Joyce Ryals, in their home near Ormond Beach are believed to victims of a murder-suicide with the husband pulling the trigger that killed his wife and then huimself, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said of the overnight murder-suicide.
"Based on evidence at the scene, investigators believe that James Ryals killed his wife and then killed himself,"agency spokesman Gary Davidson said this morning, adding, "The Volusia County Medical Examiner's Office is scheduled to begin the autopsies at 9 a.m."
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Calvin Robinson, shown here in a jail mug, is charged with trying to ram a deputy's patrol car and driving under the influence. The deputy was not hurt in the Sunday incident near Ormond Beach.ORMOND BEACH -- When the Volusia County Sheriff's deputy first saw 34-year-old Calvin Robinson early Sunday morning, the man was quietly slumped over in the driver's seat of his car parked by the gas pumps of a truck stop outside the city limits.
That quickly changed, though, when Robinson suddenly struck the deputy with his car, ran into and damaged the gas pumps, rammed the deputy's patrol vehicle and took off the wrong way on the highway.
ORMOND BEACH -- I’ll just tell you right up front that I expected the worst from Biden and a spirited defense by Ryan. I certainly wasn’t disappointed.
Photo for Headline Surfer / Christine Thomas of Ormond Beach, shown here, has moved up to one of the top administrative posts in banking in the Sunshine State.TAVARES -- When politicians ask if she's better off now than she was four years ago, Ormond Beach's Christine "Chris" Thomas can answer in the affirmative. But not because of anything government has done.
In these four short years, Thomas has worked her way up the business ladder to senior vice president controller at Reunion Bank of Florida and now she's the Tavares-based bank's chief financial officer.
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The Volusia County Sheriff's Dive Team recovers the submerged vehicle with the body of Rose Bruce in it, from a retention pond near her Ormond Beach residence as shown here, first with the initial discovery at far left and with the removal of the vehicle in the inset photo.
ORMOND BEACH -- It was a freak accident that led to the tragic death of 79-year-old Rose Bruce, the Walmart employee missing since Monday night for nearly three days before a team of divers found her body in the back seat of her car in a 9-foot-deep retention pond across from her residence.
A silver alert has been issued for this elderly woman, Rose Bruce of Ormond Beach, reported missing Tuesday. If you see her or her blue 1997 Honda Accord with a Florida license tag, K383JA, please call 9-1-1 immediately.ORMOND BEACH -- The search for a missing 79-year-old Rose Bruce of Ormond Beach is now in its second day and with an increasing likelihood that she may have been driving around in a lost or confused state, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office is renewing its appeal for the public's help in locating her.
Bruce was reported missing at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning and at the time, "family members indicated that Bruce has never gone missing before and hasn't been diagnosed with any type of cognitive impairment," Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said this morning.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Carl Persis wants to become the face of Volusia County as its next elected chair. But standing in the way is surprise second-place finisher in the primary, Jason Davis.
Courtesy photo / Councilman Joseph Perrone knows firsthand that every vote counts, especially in a small town like Ponce Inlet as affirmed by a manual ballot recount Friday.DELAND -- Two races from Tuesday's primary went unchanged after recounts Friday.
Ponce Inlet Town Councilman Joseph Perrone won re-election over Joe Villanella by one vote in a recount Friday confirmed, unchanged from Tuesday's primary giving him the win, 609 to 608.
In another race requiring a recount, Shannon McLeish of Ormond Beach held onto her 27-voter margin over third-place finisher Jay Young for the right to go against Volusia County Council Council dist 4 primary primary winner Doug Daniels in the Nov. 6 runoff.
ORMOND BEACH -- Attention small business owners and managers: Have you wondered what worker's compensation protection is best for your business; or if your business is protected from natural disaster loss? Certainly everyone in your position is curious how the new health care laws will affect your operations. How will it affect you?
Learn the answers to these questions and more at the first of Ormond MainStreet's presentations of Small Business Lunch & Learn from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10. Seats are filling quickly so RSVP to Craig Conrey at 321-626-6628 or email him at craig.conrey@hotmail.com.
