DAYTONA BEACH -- Volusia County sheriff's investigators along with county firefighters were on the scene of a house fire just west of Daytona Beach Wednesday afternoon where the body of a woman was found inside the charred home in the Daytona Highridge Estates subdivision.
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(photos by Dale Smith). The empty lot at Flagler and Cooper avenues will be turned into an ice skating rink during the upcoming Winter Festival, sponsored by The Hospitality Group, comprised of merchants of Flagler Avenue. NEW SMYRNA BEACH – The jet stream from Canada has dipped so low they’ll be ice skating on Flagler Avenue. Ok, maybe not the actual frozen stuff, but there will be artificial ice for everyone to glide around on.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Everyone loves a parade, especially a Christmas one and what better place than here in New Smyrna Beach where several thousand people lined the streets from the beachside to the mainland downtown.
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(Photos by Dale Smith) Linda Davis models evening wear from Thrifty Threads, 217 Canal St., during the Girls Night Out segment of Christmas on Canal. In the group photo, participants salute the audience.NEW SMYRNA BEACH – Fashion comes in all styles and sizes. From the elegant and the sophisticated, to the practical, whimsical, and yes, even the silliest. But no matter what was worn, the models wowed the audience during the Girls Night Out fashion show that is a part of Christmas on Canal.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- With the spotlight aimed at football this time of year even the marine environment is in tune with the spirit.
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South Daytona Fire Chief Tad Derr expands his emergency services experience with two new appointments.
SOUTH DAYTONA -- On January 1, South Daytona Fire Chief Tad Derr will assume the role of president of the Volusia County Fire Chiefs’ Association. In addition, he was recently appointed vice chair of Daytona State College Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board.
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Carlos Negron, 39, Orlando, shown here, turned his estranged wife's father's Stone Island home into a literal bloodbath early Monday. A day later, Volusia County Sheriff's investigators had no answers as to what caused him to shoot to death Lara Negron, 41, and her 73-year-old father, Philip Spinney. The Negrons' 11-year-old daughter witnessed the carnage and ran into the street for help after it was over.
DELTONA -- As expected, autopsies performed on 39-year-old Carlos Negron of Orlando who shot and killed his estranged wife and her father before turning the gun on himself in the father's Stone Island home early Monday, was ruled a double-murder suicide by the Volusia County Medical Examiner's Office.
Lara Negron, 41, and her father, Philip Spinney, 73, died as a result of gunshot wounds.
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Mary Doretich Mitchell, 76, missing since leaving her Bouchelle Island home Friday in her car and the subject of a missing person's report and silver alert, has been found alive under unusual circumstances.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Missing for nearly four days, 76-year-old Mary Doretich Mitchell of Bouchelle Island was found alive Tuesday afternoon, in of all places, the trunk of her car in the parking lot of Bert Fish Medical Center, New Smyrna Beach police confirmed.
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Carlos Negron, 39, Orlando, shown here, shot and killed both his estranged wife, Lara Negron, 41, and her father, Philip Spinney, 73, in the father's Stone Island home early Monday before fatally turning the gun on himself, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. The couple's 11-year-old daughter saw the bloodshed unfold in front of her, but was not harmed. Here is a link from WFTV Channel 9 of 911 calls made by ferantic neighbors: http://www.wftv.com/video/25952041/
DELTONA -- In what was a horrific death scene, An Orlando man shot and killed his estranged wife and her father in the the father's Sunset Road in Stone Island just south of Deltona before turning the gun on himself Monday morning. The unanswered is why an apparent marriage break-up could end so violently, especially with the couple's daughter in the home who saw it all
That is something Sheriff's investigators and family and friends of the victims in this double-murder suicide may never get an answer to beyond the certainly of homicidal rage.
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Please click the attachment to read details about a police bulletin for the whereabouts of Mary Doretich Mitchell, 76, missing since possibly leaving in her silver, 4-door Dodge car at 5 p.m. Friday without telling neighbors or family where she was headed.
NEW SMYRNA BEACVH -- For the second day in a row Monday, New Smyrna Beach police put out a missing person's report for 76-year-old Mary Doretich Mitchell, this time with a photo, with her last being seen Friday afternoon.
She is described as white, 5 feet 4 and 80 pounds. She has gray hair and hazel eyes. Besides a missing person'sd report, police issued a silver alert for her 2005 Dodge 4-door, silver in color, with Florida Tag E204VR.
