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86. NSB COPS: Man with hatchet charged with stealing copper from former high school

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Courtesy photos/NSBPD / Chad Michael Johnson, 38, of New Smyrna Beach, was being held Aug. 31, at the Volusia County Branch Jail on an armed burglary charge.

88. NSB child sex offender jailed in Daytona Beach on warrants out of Piniellas County alleging new round of child-sex charges

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Courtesy photo VCBJ / Convicted child sex offender Richard Ervin of New Smyrna Beach was being held without bail in October at the Volusia County Brnch Jail on 10 warrants out of Pinielas County on child sex charges.

89. Early Saturday fire destroys Edgewater mobile home; damages estimated at $50,000

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Courtesy photo for NSBNEWS.net / Charred remains are what's left of this residence in Edgewater's Seahorse Mobile Home Park that after an early Saturday fire on July 10 caused by an electrical problem, fire officials said. 

Closure for Orange Avenue Bridge in Daytona Beach for maintenance postponed

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DAYTONA BEACH -- The Orange Avenue bridge will not be closed for maintenance Thursday as previously
announced. The maintenance will be rescheduled, county spokeswoman Pat Kuehn said.

Patrick Henry wins zone 5 seat on Daytona Beach City Commission in special election

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DAYTONA BEACH -- Patrick Henry won the special election for the zone 5 city commission seat tonight that his older brother was forced to vacate because of pending charges that absentee ballots were illegally obtained before last August's primary.

NSB commission to hold first meeting of new year tonight; joint meeting Wednesday with CRA board

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Photo by Dale Smith /  The former police station fronting U.S. 1 near the municipal airport will be razed if commissioners approve the demolition at tonight's meeting.

Editor's note: The following story was submitted by contributing writer Dale Smith:

NEW SMYRNA BEACH – The City Commission will hold its first meeting of the new year at 6:30 tonight with an expected vote to tear down the former police and fire department facilities on Industrial Park Avenue.

Shannon Pursley, woman at center of New Year's homicide outside Ormond bar, speaks publicly for first time exclusively to VolusiaNews.net

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Coutesy photos / At far left, jail mug of Christian Pursley, charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Keith "Shorty" Roberts on his motorcycle shown on his Facebook memorial page. At right is Shannon Pursley, wife of the accused killer who was seeing the victim. The homicide police report is attached. You can read it by clicking the attachment.

ORMOND BEACH -- Shannon Pursley has to walk an even finer line shielding her children as she deals with the horror of having seen her boyfriend gunned down by her estranged husband during the early morning hours of New Year's outside the Rockin' Ranch bar.

"Im not only dealing with the mourning of Keith, but also dealing with the repercussions that the father of my child is in jail," she said Monday night in an exclusive interview with VolusiaNews.net.