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PONCE INLET -- For eight years, Volusia County’s Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet has cared for thousands of sick or injured sea turtles, seabirds and more.

Again this year, hundreds of citizens are expected to join the county in celebrating animal rehabilitation and raising awareness about marine life and the environment as the MSC stages its annual Turtle Day from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.today.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- It's "Children's Storytime" at Denny's restaurant on Tuesday.

Free food and a free book for children, 10 years and younger, are offered with the purchase of an adult meal at regular price. Storytime is from 5 to 7 p.m. at Denny's, 1830 State Road 44.

EDGEWATER -- A 51-year-old Melbourne woman was killed Thursday afternoon on Interstate 95 near Edgewater after she lost control of her 2001 Mazda sport utility vehicle into the median and struck a row of trees, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The motorist airlifted to Halifax Medical Center after striking another vehicle and overturning his Isuzu Rodeo several times before striking a tree on U.S. 1 Wednesday night, has been identified as 44-year-old David M. Weightman of New Smyrna Beach. He was listed Thursday night in stable condition.

EDGEWATER -- A 15-year-old Edgewater boy has been charged for a second time since February with intentionally starting a brush fire near the Florida Shores subdivision, Edgewater police said Thursday.

Police said the boy confessed to Wednesday night fire in the 1800 block of 35th Street at Pine Tree Drive. NSBNEWS.net is not naming the child because of his age.

Courtesy photo/State Rep. Dorothy Hukill.

TALLAHASSEE -- State Rep. Dorothy. Hukill, R-Port Orange, applauded the passage of a measure aimed at providing regulatory relief and encouraging economic activity and recovery. House Bill (HB) 7099 provides assurance that actions taken under the Community Renewal Act of 2009 are protected.

"This bill saves real jobs at a time when we can ill-afford to lose even one more job in the State of Florida," Hukill said.

CAPE CANAVERAL --  Today, following President Obama's speech on NASA policy at the Kennedy Space Center's Operations and Checkout facility, Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna Beach (FL-24), issued the following statement:

"The changes that the President has outlined today to his NASA proposal are steps in the right direction and a sign that he is listening to my concerns, but there is still room for improvement.

DELTONA -- You can add fraud to the list of problems resulting from the country's home foreclosure crisis. In Deltona, a 29-year-old man is accused of filing phony court papers to claim ownership of foreclosed homes and then taking down "for sale" signs, changing locks and moving in.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick.

New Smyrna Beach police officer Michael Delahanty holds a liquor bottle he retrieved from this mangled Isuzu Rodeo Wednesday night that resulted in the motorist being airlifted to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach from the crash scene at 2004 N. Dixie Freeway (U.S. 1) in New Smyrna Beach. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH --  A speeding motorist oin an Isuzu Rodeo struck two other vehicles before overturning at least three times while northbound on U.S., just north of the Skyline 1949 Restaurant, just before 7:45 p.m. Wednesday.

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick/far left. Courtesy photo/near left.

New Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer, shown in this file photo, led his city's delegation this afternoon at the funeral of South Daytona Mayor Blaine O'Neal, shown near left.

DAYTONA BEACH -- They came by the hundreds to pay their last respects this afternoon to South Daytona Mayor Blaine O'Neal at the Crossroads Baptist Church. Leading the delegation for New Smyrna Beach was 43-year-old Mayor Adam Barringer, who at 43, is the same age as his South Daytona colleague, who died Friday of a heart attack.