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Photo and story by contributing writer Dale Smith for NSBNews.Net / Circuit Judge Richard Graham has been presiding over the merger lawsuit trial sought by the Bert Fish Foundation against the Southeast Volusia Hospital Board's partnership with Adventist Health Systems, also known as Florida Hospital.

DAYTONA BEACH – Circuit Court Judge Richard Graham could rule today on the lawsuit filed against the Bert Fish Medical Center and Adventist Health Systems by the Bert Fish Foundation.

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Courtesy photo / Marvin Callaway of Decatur, Ga., is missing and is considered at risk because he is bipolar, is a diabetic and has high blood pressure.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Police are asking the public's help in locating Marvin Callaway, 55, of Decatur, Ga., reported missing Tuesday by his wife back home. He was released from the Volusia County Branch Jail a day earlier on a misdemeanor charge of retail theft.

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Courtesy photos / At far left, Gustavo Huertas, 23, of Daytona Beach, was sentenced to 15 years in state prison for numerous criminal transactions involving the delivery of narcotics while armed and sale of narcotics.  Tyrell Jackson, 21, of Daytona Beach, was sentenced to seven years in state prison for sale and delivery of cocaine while carrying a concealed gun. Both were put behind bars as a result of  "Operation 819."

DAYTONA BEACH -- The men involved in dealing stolen guns and narcotics within the city limits were given prison sentences and a third is awaiting sentences, a Daytona Beach police spokesman said Wednesday, as a result of a two-year joint operation of the police force and the U.S. Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Dubbed "operation 819," 50 people were served federal and state warrants charging them with a variety of narcotics- and firearms-related felonies, Daytona Beach police spokesman Sgt. Paul Barnett said. The operation began in August 2008 and lasted two years, he said.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Trevor Bayne won the Daytona 500, but if he's looking for a cup championship, he'll have to get it in the Nationwide series, the understudy to the Sprint series.

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DAYTONA BEACH -- An apparent accidental discharge while cleaning a shotgun has claimed the life of a 49-year-old Daytona Beach-area man, a Volusia County Sheriff's Office spokesman said.

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DAYTONA BEACH -- The Human Services Advisory Board will meet Friday to review modifications to the 2010/2011 Community Service Block Grant program and vote on recommended changes to the advisory board bylaws.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – It seems only fitting that this Daytona 500, won by 20-year-old Trevor Bayne, the youngest-ever driver to take the checkered flag, would prove to be a race that broke all kinds of records.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Trevor Bayne held off Carl Edwards to win the Daytona 500 today at Daytona International Speedway, at age 20, the youngest ever driver to take the checkered flag.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- County music star Martina NcBride will sing the National Anthem for today's 53rd running of the Daytona 500. She'll also return to Daytona International Speedway to perform a 60-minute pre-race concert prior to the 53rd annual Coke Zero 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Saturday night, July 2, DIS officials announced this morning.