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PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- Two familiar faces were spotted at the Port Orange Family Days weekend celebration: The current mayor and a candidate who hopes to succeed him.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The Volusia Building Industry Association is putting its muscle behind 10 candidates for public office in Nov. 8 general elections.

DELTONA, Fla. A 3-year-old girl lost her life Thursday evening, where Volusia County sheriff’s deputies out searching for the missing child pulled her from a pond behind her home, an agency spokesman said.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Hoax threats and other creepy clown posts have been making the rounds all across the country and they really took off today in schools in Volusia County, officials with the Sherriffs office said.

SANFORD, Fla. -- If you are looking for something to do, why not check out the Sanford Farmers Market, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in Sanford's historic downtown at Magnolia Square and First Street.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla -- Brutal rape allegations against County Council candidate Willie J. Kimmons were quietly dismissed in June by the State Attorney's Office without ever reaching a circuit judge. And yet a temporary order of protection was granted to the alleged victim by a judge.

However, her request for a permanent order of protection won't be heard until Nov. 9, the day after the general elections.

Kimmons, accompanied by private counsel refused to speak to Daytona Beach police investigators -- his rights under the law. And he's certainly not talking now -- at least not to this media outlet, which is outlining the rape allegations while recognizing the presumption of innocence is afforded Kimmons unless or until tried and convicted in a court of law.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- One of Volusia County's two beach cams for online viewers is working.

The "Daytona Beach" beach cam at the Dunlawton approach in Daytona Beach Shores shows shows a blackened blackened screen with a brief message that reads: "We are havoing problems with playback. We apologize for the inconvenience."

The cam has been inoperable since last weekend. The audio is fine, but the video feed is off. The other county beach cam on the Flagler Avenue Beach ramp is working fine. 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- More than ever, the future is dependent on what happens now with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University if it wants to keep its competitive edge as one of the top aerospace institutions of higher learning not only in the US, but in an ever-expanding global marketplace where technology rules.

Nobody is more acutely aware of this than Mori Hosseini, who is doing everything he can to position the private unversity as a dominant force well beyond his lifetime.

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. -- It will be motorcycles galore at Daytona International Speedway during Bketoberfest next month. 

There will be something special for everyone to see, check out or experience during the Speedways "Fall Cycle Scene," coinciding with greater Daytona Beach's fall motorcycle rally, Biketoberfest, held Oct. 13-16.