NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Police responded to 3:44 p.m. Wednesday to a report of "shots fired" at 916 Palmetto St., apartment A, and after getting information from the intended victims who were not injured, police caught up with the suspect vehicle and arrested the occupants.
Police charged Tamrea Jo-Ann Busbey, 19; Kyle Patrick Doolin, 18; and a juvenile with shooting into an occupied dwelling.
Sept. 16, 2009: Daniel C. Woods and Monica L. Leucht, New Smyrna Beach.
OAK HILL -- A 47-year-old motorist killed Tuesday in a car accident Tuesday on Interstate 95 in Brevard County was identified today by the Florida Highway Patrol as Oak Hill resident Artice Lee Smith
NSBNEWS.net video and photos by Sera Frederick. Between four and six city workers spent all day Tuesday putting up the $9,000 artificial Christmas tree purchased with tax dollars by the Community Redevelopment Agency at the eastern-most end of Canal Street just a couple feet from the riverbank. The tree went up less than a week after the City Commission voted unanimously to tentatively go with the rolled-back rate of $3.7 per $1,000 to finance the $21 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which meant no raises for city employees, the elimination of five open police officer positions and severe cutbacks in capital improvements. Yet the Community Redevelopment Agency was allowed to spend $9,000 this spring to purchase the artificial tree, which has become a lightning rod in this primary election about spending priorities.
NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Forty-three employees of the Daytona Beach News-Journal lost their jobs earlier today, according to several sources.
Of the 43 cuts, 16 were in the newsroom and nine were unionized pressmen. The others were from various other departments.
Executive Editor Don Lindley informed the terminated employees in an e-mail and then left for the day at 4 p.m. without facing any of those whose jobs were cut, according to an inside source.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A search is under way for a 15-year-old boy who allegedly threw a stick at a passing school bus heading north in the 800 block of South Myrtle Avenue this afternoon that injured three kids on board when a window was shattered, New Smyrna Beach police said,
The incident happened at 4 p.m. just north of the New Smyrna Beach Middle School by the boy, whose name was not released by police because of his age and believed to be a middle school student.
NSBNEWS.net videos by Sera Frederick.
NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick. Early Voting for the Sept. 22 primary begins 8 a.m. today at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library. Early voting will run 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day through Saturday at the library, 1001 S. Dixie Freeway.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Early Voting for the Sept. 22 primary gets under way 8 a.m. today at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, 1001 S. Dixie Freeway.
Those registered to vote in the primary can cast their vote in three races:
NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick. See game story previously posted on NSBNEWS.net.
