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A fundraiser was held Saturday at SoNapa Wine Co. by the Team Ocean Walkers for Relay for Life. The overflowing crowd spilled out into the front of the Third Avenue winery with some 300 people showing up.  Mac McClelland, whose wife, Sue, organized the event, said theit team hoped to raise $2,500 during the three-hoursocial gathering.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- SoNapa Wine Co. provided the wine. Ocean Walk provided the cheese. The wine went much further and for a good cause Saturday: A fundraiser for Relay For Life.

Feb. 27, 2010: Michael P. McCormick and Sylvia A. Roy, Edgewater; James W. Edens and Lori A. Retz, New Smyrna Beach; Dustin M. Gross and Natalie N. Wood, New Smyrna Beach.

Feb. 26, 2010: Jon P. Rosa, St. Petersburg, and Carly J. McWalters, New Smyrna Beach; James W. Sapp and Penny E. Poveromo, New Smyrna Beach; Francis T. Sganga and May Locke, New Smyrna Beach; Ricky S. Powell and Jennifer M. Anderson, New Smyrna Beach.

Susan Brdeja, 91, of New Smyrna Beach, a former seamstress, died Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010.

Wallace Davis, 86, of Oak Hill, a former sign engineer for the state of Indiana, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010.

Alice L Bodeker, 71, of Edgewater, born in New York City, a communicant at Sacred Heart Catholic Church New Smyrna Beach, who enjoyed traveling and the love of her her husband of 54 years, Gerard, her children and grandchildren, died Monday, Feb. 22, 2010.

James L. Jenkins, 72, of New Smyrna Beach, a self-employed landscaper, died Monday, Feb. 22, 2010.

Courtesy photo/Jail mug. Audio/Courtesy of Sheriff's Office/Produced by NSBNEWS.net/Sera Frederick.

Theodore R. Malewski, 64, was arrested this morning by Volusia County Sheriff's investigators on charges of shooting his wife, Patricia, 71, in the abdomen Thursday night. She called 9-1-1 pleading for help and claiming her husband shot her on purpose. He could be heard in the background yelling it was accidental. Listen to the 9-1-1 audiotape.

EDGEWATER -- Theodore Malewski was arrested Friday morning by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office for shooting his wife in the abdomen the previous evening, an agency spokesman said.

Courtesy photos/Kem McNair. New Smyrna Beach surfer and photographer KemMcNair took these photos last weekend of rare North Atlantic whales seen off the shore of New Smyrna Beach. Check out more of his photos at kemmcnair.com.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Boaters are being warned by state wildlife officials to back off from a group of rare North Atlantic right whales that have been spotted in the waters off New Smyrna Beach.

The law requires boaters, surfers, swimmers and others to stay at least 500 yards from endangered animals, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.

The Orlando Sentinel is reporting online and in today's print edition newspaper that SeaWorld Orlando trainer Dawn Brancheau died Wednesday as a result of "multiple traumatic injuries and drowning" after a killer whale pulled her underwater by her long ponytail near the theme park's Shamu Stadium.

NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick.

Theresa Perreault, 22, of Edgewater, a bartender at Pub 44, poses with her big sister, April Perreault, 25, also a bartender, at last October's Biketoberfest. In the smaller photo, on top, countless bikes are packed in like sardines in the Pub 44 parking lot.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- They're baaaaack. The Bikers, that is.

Bike Week 2010 gets a roaring start today throughout Volusia County, with the local contingent centered at Pub 44 and Bruce Rossmeyer's NSB Harley-Davidson on State Road 44, axross from the NSB Regional Shopping Center.

EDGEWATER -- A 71-year-old Godfrey Road woman was airlifted to Halifax Medical Center with a gunshot wound to her abdomen after calling 9-1-1 and telling a dispatcher she had been shot by her husband, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught said of the 9:37 p.m. emergency dispatch call. The victim was in surgery as of 12:45 this morning, Haught said.

DAYTONA BEACH -- With the heavy traffic that comes with Bike Week, Votran riders should expect numerous delays, interruptions and route deviations. Schedule delays will begin Monday, and continue
through the following Sunday, March 7.

Detours are subject to change without notice. “Votran will make every effort to notify customers as soon as the detours and route deviations are expected,” said Ken Fischer, Votran general manager. “Buses will be rerouted to secondary roads when traffic becomes congested.”

Courtesy photo/Jail mug. Timothy Woulard Jr. of DeLand, shown here, is wanted on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the shooting of a DeLeon Springs man last September.

DELEON SPRINGS -- Volusia County Sheriff's deputies investigating the September 2009 fatal shooting in DeLeon Springs of a 33-year-old man have concluded that the killing was sparked by a drug deal that went bad, an agency spokesman said.