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Courtesy photo / North Carolina resident Michael Del Vecchio, 21, fired several shots from a handgun during an argument outside a Daytona Beach fast-food restaurant with his girlfriend Monday, leading to his arrest on aggravated assault charges.

DAYTONA BEACH – A North Carolina man fired two shots at his girlfriend during an argument today with her and two patrons at a Taco Bell restaurant, Daytona Beach police said.

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ORMOND BEACH -- Gov. Rick Scott today named Dr. Frank Farmer of Ormond Beach as Florida's Surgeon General and announced he will retain Liz Dudek as secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration 

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EDGEWATER -- News of the Sunday drowning of a 4-year-old girl in a backyard pool, the latest in a series of pool dwnings involving pre-school children, prompted Edgewater Fire Services Capt. Jill Danigel to put out a press release with pool safety tips.

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SOUTH DAYTONA -- A 4-year-old girl drowned in a backyard pool just after 11:30 a.m. Sunday, police said.

Emergency personnel responded to 2130 Green St., and attempted to revive the child, who had been at the bottom of the pool 5 to 10 minutes, South Daytona police said.

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Courtesy photo / Florida Education Commissioner, who has ties to education in Volusia, said Monday he is stepping down from his post in June.

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Education Commissioner Eric Smith, who has ties to Volusia County, announced earlier today he is resigning his post, effective June 10.

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Photos courtesy of the Smyrna Safari Club / Tadpole surfing will be held April 2 south of the Ponce Inlet jetty in New Smyrna Beach, part of a four-day Kona Pro Surf Contest, that begins March 31. This photo shows an unidentified mom and her child in the New Smyrna Beach surf, practicing for the tadpole contest

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The community's youngest surfers have been given the nickname of tadpoles, which Webster's Dictionary defines as a small creature with external gills that undergoes a metamorphosis to adult.

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EDGEWATER -- The New Smyrna Beach High School swim team has lost its pool at the Aqua Park Aquatic Center and as a result may fold, according to a story by WESH-TV in Orlando.

Editor's Note: Here is a timely local blog as things heat up in Libya.

Every day now we awake to new more dire predictions of a massive nuclear meltdown in Japan in as many as four reactors, yet another revolution in the Middle East with a sadistic insane leader ordering his troops to shoot his own people, an unbelievable rising death toll in Japan from the earthquake and tsunami, and now a U. N. Security Council resolution that institutes a no fly zone over Libya.

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UDATED: The young man reported missing was found later in the day Friday, police reported.

Courtesy photo / Ross Mikhail Houston, 21, has been reported missing since Wednesday and police are asking the public's help in finding him.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Police here announced they were looking for a 21-year-old man who may be a danger to himself.

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Courtesy photo / Jennifer Filippelli, 35, of DeBary, is charged with child abuse and unlawful tattooing for allowing a 14-year-old girl under her care to get a tattoo, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

DEBARY -- Volusia County Sheriff's deputies charged a DeBary woman early this morning with child abuse for allowing a 14-year-old girl in her care to get a tattoo from an unlicensed artist.