Volusia News Now

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Former NBA executive, author and motivational speaker Lucas Boyce will be the featured speaker on Tuesday, Oct. 18, during the fall 2016 installment of the L. Gale Lemerand Entrepreneurial Speaker Series hosted by the Small Businress Development Center and Daytona State College.

PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- Two familiar faces were spotted at the Port Orange Family Days weekend celebration: The current mayor and a candidate who hopes to succeed him.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The Volusia Building Industry Association is putting its muscle behind 10 candidates for public office in Nov. 8 general elections.

DELTONA, Fla. A 3-year-old girl lost her life Thursday evening, where Volusia County sheriff’s deputies out searching for the missing child pulled her from a pond behind her home, an agency spokesman said.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Hoax threats and other creepy clown posts have been making the rounds all across the country and they really took off today in schools in Volusia County, officials with the Sherriffs office said.

Here's the latest for Thursday, Sept. 29: Lead item: Would a safety system have helped in the New Jersey train crash? Other news of note: The CDC is urging people to get their flu shots; US Olympians visit the White House and the Royal Family enjoys a children's party. 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- One of Volusia County's two beach cams for online viewers is working.

The "Daytona Beach" beach cam at the Dunlawton approach in Daytona Beach Shores shows shows a blackened blackened screen with a brief message that reads: "We are havoing problems with playback. We apologize for the inconvenience."

The cam has been inoperable since last weekend. The audio is fine, but the video feed is off. The other county beach cam on the Flagler Avenue Beach ramp is working fine. 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- More than ever, the future is dependent on what happens now with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University if it wants to keep its competitive edge as one of the top aerospace institutions of higher learning not only in the US, but in an ever-expanding global marketplace where technology rules.

Nobody is more acutely aware of this than Mori Hosseini, who is doing everything he can to position the private unversity as a dominant force well beyond his lifetime.

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. -- It will be motorcycles galore at Daytona International Speedway during Bketoberfest next month. 

There will be something special for everyone to see, check out or experience during the Speedways "Fall Cycle Scene," coinciding with greater Daytona Beach's fall motorcycle rally, Biketoberfest, held Oct. 13-16.