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DELAND -- Bike Week 2011 hadn't yet started and already a motorcyclist was killed Thursday night when his Harley Davidson was struck by an 18-year-old motorist in a four-door Mercury that tried crossing over several lanes on Woodland Boulevard, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

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DAYTONA BEACH -- Bike Week brings heavy traffic and Votran riders should expect some delays, interruptions and possible route deviations. Schedule delays will begin Thursday, March 10, and will continue to occur through that Sunday.

Detours are subject to change without notice.

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Courtesy photo / This Department of Transportation camera image Tuesday on Interstate 95 shows the intensity of the nearby wildfire straddling the Volusia and Brevard County lines.

OAK HILL -- Even though the so-called Iron Hore wildfire has quadrupled from 4,000 acres to 16,000-plus acres, officials say the worst of it is behind us with most of the damage south of Oak Hill in neighboring northern Brevard County.

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla.  -- It is undeniably true, as several of our Republican leaders have said, that we do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. In other words, government spending must be drastically reduced. Yet the Obama Administration continues to spend as if there were no end of money, driving our economy toward bankruptcy and the dollar toward collapse.

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Courtesy photo / The scene from a Florida Department of Transportation camera on Interstate 95 south of  New Smyrna Beach shows thick smoke billowing from a massive forest fire in nearby Brevard County that forced the closure of the highway Monday.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Driving could be hazardous on Interstate 95 in Southeast Volusia from a massive forest fire in nearby Brevard County that forced the Florida Highway Patrol to intermittently closed down a 24-mile stretch of the interstate Monday because of poor visibility resulting from smoke.

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Courtesy photo (far left) and NSBNews.Net file photo / Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility testified Feb. 18 before the Florida House's Economic Affairs Committee chaired by State Rep, Dorothy Hukill, R-Port Orange, on the glut of claims that have yet been addressed for businesses on the gulf coast impacted by the BP oil spill.

TALLAHASSEE -- As far as State Rep. Dorothy Hukill is concerned, actions speak louder than words. With that said, she's willing to give Kenneth Feinberg the benefit of the doubt.

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DELAND -- Elijah Eckhardt, the 2-year-old boy resuscitated by paramedics after being pulled from his grandparents' pool last night by his 10-year-old brother died this morning at an Orlando hospital, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.

"Medical personnel were able to resuscitate Elijah, but he was on life support and in critical condition at the time he was airlifted Saturday night to Florida Hospital in Orlando," Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said. "He was pronounced dead at 10:46 a.m. Sunday morning at the hospital."

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Courtesy photos / Michael Annicchiarico, 33, of Ormond Beach, has been named a "person of interest" in the case of missing 31-year-old Mandy Ciehanoski of Holly Hill, now presumed dead and the victim of homicide, according to the Sheriff's Office.

ORMOND BEACH -- Missing for nearly three weeks without a trace, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office is now calling the search for a 31-year-old Holly Hill woman a homicide investigation.

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DELAND -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to 1133 Glenwood Road near DeLand at about 5 p.m. on Saturday, after the child was found in his grandparents' swimming pool.

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 51-year-old woman who told a deputy she was "Satan's child" and "had no where to go but meet her maker" was taken into custody for a psychiatric evaluation.