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Big groundbreaking Monday for Hampton Inn

 

 

NSBNews.net video by Sera Frederick Construction crews clear ground to make way for the Hampton Inn and Suites as shown here on Friday.
 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Groundbreaking for the Hampton Inn and Suites will take place 4 p.m. Monday at 214 Flagler  Ave., between Peninsula and Pine Avenues.

Premiere Development Group, under the leadership of David Swentor and HIHO LLC,  are proud to announce that the planning stages are over and the construction will get under way on the very first new hotel to be built in the area in decades.

Hurricane Irene skirts outer Florida coastline

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Surf swollen in New Smyrna Beach & other Volusia coastal cities

Hurricane Irene swells New Smyrna Beach surfHurricane Irene continues to churn closer to the Florida coastline on this early Friday. With wind gusts of 45 mph, the surf is swollen as shown in  5:45 p.m. Thursday in New Smyrna Beach by Roxanne Reynolds Hicks.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Volusia County's coastal cities -- from Ormond Beach to Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach Shores, Ponce Inlet and New Smyrna Beach -- were bracing for the remote possibility of Hurricane Irene turning in here, but the National Weather Service has it striking the Carolinas and Virginia with a trajectory to New York City.

Danica switches from Indy Racing to NASCAR, but what about Daytona 500?

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Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images / Danica Patrick poses with the No. 7 NASCAR Nationwide Series GoDaddy.com Chevrolet at a press conference to announce her full transition to NASCAR at the GoDaddy.com Headquarters on Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Danica Patrick is bolting Indy Racing for NASCAR with a full-time ride in the Nationwide junior circuit and a limited schedule in the Sprint Cup series. Whether that Sprint Cup schedule includes the Daytona 500 is another story.

Throwing America under the bus

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By Stan Escudero
Chief Political blogger for NSBNews.net

Our President has been traveling the byroads on his Throw America Under the Bus Tour, in hot pursuit of anti-Republican class warfare all the while denying that he is campaigning so that he can rip off the public by forcing the taxpayers to pick up the cost of the trip.

Don't care about Casey

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It continues to amaze me that a month after her “not guilty” verdict in the death of her 2 – year old daughter... the media spotlight continues to shine on Casey Anthony. And... boy... is she lovin' it. This is the gal who was on trial for 1st degree murder. Now... as I write this missive... the Orlando media is all over the place where defense attorney Jose Baez is having lunch. Here's the deal... she has been ordered to show up and report to serve her probation from her bad check charge. She ain't gonna do it.

New Smyrna Beach weeps for murdered mother

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Jennifer Rado, 41, was shown on the National Center for Missing Persons website after she was first reported missing July 13 in New Smyrna Beach and then four days later when she was at a party in Edgewater thrown by her accused killer, Frances Gibson, according to police there. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Despite her apparent addiction to prescription pills, murder victim Jennifer Rado was loved by her husband and their two children, say friends who knew her.

"She was a great person and a friend to all," said Renee Tyner-McGraw, both former employees of the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Edgewater woman charged with murder of Jennifer Rado; led Edgewater cops to skeletal remains

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VCSO jail mug / Frances R. Gibson of Edgewater, shown at left in the larger photo, has been charged with murder in the slaying of Jennifer Rado, a wife and mother of two from New Smyrna Beach.  

EDGEWATER -- Jennifer Rado was murdered and her alleged killer led investigators to her skeletal remains off Maytown Road, Edgewater Police Chief Dave Arcieri told NSBNews.net at 6:30 a.m., adding she "confessed" to the slaying in which the victim was beaten so badly with fists that they caused lacerations to her head and face.

"Frances R. Gibson confessed to the murder of Jennifer Rado and led us to the body," Arcieri said, adding she was charged with first-degree murder Monday night.

Charging affidavits released by police show that the victim, Jennifer Rado, was tied up with electrical tape and wiring before her body was disposed of in woods off Maytown Road in Oak Hill.