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OAK HILL -- When a Jacksonville Beach cop pulled over Laura Goodearly for suspicion of DUI, he "immediately detected a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from her breath which she became stronger as she spoke."

I live in Ponce Inlet at the end of a street that backs up to a greenway. My new neighbors tell me that I will see wildlife here like I have never seen it before. It’s been two weeks and so far, nothing.

All the elected officials, aides, politicians, czars, lobbyists, and janitors in Washington can’t seem to come up with a solution to our so-called “debt crisis.” It isn’t that I don’t believe there "is" a debt crisis; it’s that it could be solved so easily if the above-named dolts would set aside their egos and do the right thing.

DELAND -- The School District of Volusia County will hold a union negotiation meeting with the Volusia Teachers Organization at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, July 27.

The meeting will be held in the 2nd floor conference room at the DeLand Administrative Complex, 200 N. Clara Avenue, DeLand.

The New Smyrna Beach Winn-Dixie is having a "Dunk A Boss" contest from noon to 8 p.m. today to raise funds for Community Back to School Supply Drive to help kids in Oak Hill, Edgewater and New Smyrna Beach. Get two tries for $1 or 12 tries for $5. Come And try to dunk managers of Denny's, Winn-Dixie and more.

OAK HILL -- Sgt. Manny Perez returned to work this morning from his March 30 paid suspension, but things are far from settled with him accusing embattled Police Chief Diane Young of being corrupt, engaging in a relationship with a drug dealer, ticket fixing and other allegations, all of which she has denied.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- NSBNews.net has its 15 minutes of fame and then some with the world-wide coverage of Casey Anthony's jail release highlighted on Google News.

Yes, that's right! NSBNews.net and we are excited to share this with our faithful followers throughout Central Florida from here in New Smyrna Beach, the family paradise on the ocean's edge.

By Mark Williams of Daytona Beach

After doing a hundred-plus Nancy Grace shows on CNN's Headline News, now called HLN, and spending three years involved with the media side of the case, I thought I'd blog my thoughts exclusively for NSBNews.net. The jury has spoken and Casey Anthony is a free woman as of 12:14 this Sunday morning.

ORLANDO -- Fourteen minutes after midnight on this Sunday morning, Casey Anthony walked out of

By Darlene Vann of Edgewater

The unbelievable has happened with the acquittal of Casey Anthony and even with that travesty we still aren’t done with her with her release from jail She just won’t get out of our news. Now she has the nerve to appeal her convictions for lying to the police that the officers testified to during the trial and is well documented. What kind of justice is this? It is no doubt some legal maneuver to distract us from something else that’s going on.