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Art Walk and Wine Walk schedules announced

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Art Walk and Wine Walk on Flagler Avenue, will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 26. The wine walk portion runs from 1 to 7 p.m. and offers a progressive wine tasting along the beachside avenue where participants can taste their choice from more than 50 showcased wines for $20. There is also a punch card prize drawing each month. Art Walk will be held a week earlier on Dec. 17, for the holidays. For more information about Art Walk, please call 386-428-1770, or visit www.flaglergallerygroup.com.

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: Volusia County Sheriff's deputies searching for 86-year-old Deltona woman with Alzheimer's reported missing this morning

Hazel RobbinsIf you have seen the woman in this photo, identified as Hazel Robbins of Deltona, the Volusia County Sheriff's Ofiice wants you to call 9-1-1.

DELTONA -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating 86-year-old Hazel Robbins who wandered away from her home this morning.

Robbins was reported missing by her son at 10:16 a.m.

According to the son, Robbins -- who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and congestive heart failure -- was home at 6 a.m., but walked away from their residence at 1107 Hastings Drive sometime afterwards.

The son called the Sheriff's Office after he drove around the neighborhood and couldn't find his mother.

"More than a dozen patrol deputies, assisted by a K-9 unit, investigators and Sheriff's Office helicopter, are searching for Robbins and checking area businesses, parks and cab companies," Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson told NSBNews.net.

NSB Halloween Parade on Canal Street draws families

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NSBNews.net photos by Sera Frederick / 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- They came by the hundreds in all kinds of scary costumes and captured quite a bit of candy along the way. Families, that is, for The 2011 NSB Halloween Parade on Canal Street. NSBNews.net will have a complete story later today with more videos and dozens of photos.

 

NSB Halloween Parade today on Canal Street

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NSBNews.net videos by Sera Frederick / The video at left is our coverage of the 2009 Halloween Parade on Canal Street in New Smyrna Beach and the one on the right is of our 2010 coverage.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- People of all ages are expected to express themselves in costumes of their imagination during today's New Smyrna Beach Halloween Parade on Canal Street and NSBNews.net will be there with exclusive coverage for a third consecutive year.

BREAKING NEWS: Brothers charged with murder in gunshot slaying in Daytona Beach

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Sheriff's investigators: More than 26 rounds fired from rifle and handgun

Ray GreenlawWayne GreenlawSiblings Ray Greenlaw and Wayne Greenlaw are being held with out bail on first-degree murder charges in Saturday morning's drug-related gunshot slaying in Daytona Beach.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Volusia County Sheriff’s investigators have charged two brothers, 54-year-old Ray Greenlaw and 51-year-old Wayne Greenlaw, with murder and other criminal offenses related to today’s melee under the cover of darkness that led to one man being gunned down in the street and a surviving victim undergoing surgery for a machete strike to his left forearm.

Combined, the two brothers fired off more than 26 rounds from a rifle and handgun during the 5:36 a.m.

Port Orange woman charged with leaving child in car while grocery shopping in Ormond Beach

Deputies: Not the 1st time this has happened

Sharon Rosenberg is shown here in her jail mug after her arrest Friday on a charge of leaving a small child alone in a locked car.

ORMOND BEACH -- Volusia County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 63-year-old woman on Friday with child neglect after she left a 2-year-old girl alone in her car while she went shopping for groceries. And witnesses told deputies this wasn't the first time.

Daytona Beach man shot to death

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Second man attacked with machete in bloody street fight 

Justin RileyBREAKING NEWS: Justin Riley, 29, shown here at left in a previous Volusia County Jail mug arrest, suffered a major wound to his arm when he was attacked witrh a machete early Saturday morning in Daytona Beach. A second man was gunned down in the street.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Blood was spilled in a street fight in the Highridge Estates under the cover of darkness with one man shot to death and a second attacked with a machete-type weapon requiring life-saving surgery to close a deep wound to his left forearm.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office has identified the 5:36 a.m. homicide victim on Aspen Street as 41-year-old Brian Leverett. Justin Riley, 29, underwent life-saving surgery at Halifax Medical Center for a deep wound to his left forearm.

Investigators with the Sheriff's Office's Major Case Unit have detained two brothers for questioning and a possible motive for the violence.

Sheriff's Office: New Smyrna Beach man arrested on charge of raping 9-month-old baby

Edwin WrenVCBJ mug / Edwin Wren, 19, is being held without bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail on charged with sexual battery of a child and aggravated child abuse, felonies that could net him life in prison if convicted.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 9-month-old baby girl discovered Thursday afternoon to be bleeding profusely from physical trauma to her body was sexually assaulted, Volusia County Sheriff's investigators have concluded.

That night, investigators rounded up a 19-year-old man who had been left to watch the baby. Edwin Wren is being held without bond at the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach, facing charges of sexual battery on a person under the age of 12 and aggravated child abuse. Wren was living with the baby's parents, who sometimes left him to tend to the baby, according to the arrest report.