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Nov. 11, 1936 - May 26, 2010

Geraldine Slater, age 73, of New Smyrna Beach, passed away on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at Bert Fish Medical Center, New Smyrna Beach.

July 13, 1924 - May 23, 2010

Doris Lea Jones, age 85, of New Smyrna Beach, died Sunday, May 23, 2010 at Hospice Care Center of Edgewater.

Marion A. Porta, age 86, of New Smyrna Beach, died Saturday, May 22, 2010 at her home.

Courtesy photo/Shane Porter

New Smyrna Beach resident Shane Porter recently captured this unique shot, showing four stingrays just off the Atlantic shoreline in New Smyrna Beach.  In the distance is the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse.  Porter, a pyschologist and president of the Counseling Center of New Smyrna Beach, writes a blog for NSBNEWS.net.

DELAND -- Votran, Volusia County’s public transit system, will hold four public meetings this month to receive comments on bus service reductions that have been proposed as part of county government’s overall goal to reducethe 2010-'11 fiscal year budget by approximately $23 million.

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Madison Holley, 19, shown far left in a Facebook photo, was nine months pregnant with her unborn baby boy, Carter, when she was killed. along with her father, Cyril J. Holley Jr., 46, both of DeLand, in the Memorial Day boating accident near Disappearing Island in New Smyrna Beach.  Near left, one of the boats is towed by Sea Tow to the Coast Guard Station.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The 19-year-old pregnant woman killed, along with her unborn baby, and her father in the horrific boating accident near Disappearing Island on Memorial Day, was thrown from the boat when a larger boat landed on top of the smaller crash, according to frantic 9-1-1 calls.

DEBARY -- A 12-year-old girl was struck by a car in DeBary Tuesday afternoon moments after stepping off of her school bus, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick.

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Far left, A tow operator readies to tow one of the wrecked boats in the Intracoastal Waterway near Disappearing Island in New Smyrna Beach. Madison Holley, 19, shown here from her Facebook page, was nine months pregnant when she and her unborn baby were killed, along with her 46-year-old father, Cyril J. Holley Jr., all of DeLand.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 46-year-old DeLand man, his 19-year-old pregnant daughter who was due in a matter of weeks and her unborn child were killed when one boat crashed on top of another near Disappearing Island in what has turned out to be the most tragic Memorial Day ever on the Intracoastal Waterway, authorities said.

Veterans Day is always a somber day for me because my father was a World War II veteran.