ORANGE CITY -- Two burglars broke into the Central Florida Pawn and Gun Shop, using a hammer to smash through a glass case to gain access to several long guns, a 45-caliber handgun and an assault rifle Wednesday night after closing, police said.
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At left, the Obsession hits the high seas, as does the Sail Away, upper right, at last year's Lipton Cup Regatta sponsored by the Smyrna Yacht Club. The competition heats up this weekend.
The Misty 90 goes into full sail in this photo from last year's regatta.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- America¹s Cup it's not, but this weekend New Smyrna Beach will host a yacht race steeped in Central Florida tradition. Welcome to Smyrna Yacht Club¹s Lipton Cup Regatta this Saturday and Sunday, where a series of offshore races will be held in the Atlantic Ocean just outside the Ponce De Leon Inlet.
In addition to racing enthusiasts, Smyrna Yacht Club is hoping to attract many of the cruising boats in the area and that pass through New Smyrna Beach. All with an appropriate sailing vessel are invited to participate.
Courtesy photo/South Daytona Web site. South Daytona Mayor Blaine O'Neal died Friday. He was 43.
SOUTH DAYTONA -- Mayor Blaine O'Neal died suddenly Friday of an apparent heart attack, city officials said. He was 43.
O'Neal was working in his chiropractic office Friday morning when he collapsed and was transported to Halifax Health Medical Center, where he died at 8:30 a.m.
Courtesy photo/VCSO mug shot. James Stevens, 27, of Deltona, was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the beating death of his stepfather, Francis Ahern, 56.
DELTONA -- From the onset, there was much about Wednesday’s report of an unknown intruder beating a 56-year-old Deltona man to death that didn’t make sense, Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said.
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Earnest Warren was charged Tuesday with stalking and prowling outside a 14-year-old girl's bedroom window in Pelican Bay.
DAYTONA BEACH -- A man accused of stalking a 14-year-old girl and loitering around her bedroom window in the Pelican Bay subdivision has bonded out of the Volusia County Jail.
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Orange City hero cop Sherif El-Shami is in the running for a special award on the TV show "America's Most Wanted."
ORANGE CITY -- Already described by local media and colleagues alike as a hero cop, Orange City police officer Sherif El-Shami, who lost an eye after being shot in the line of duty with a suicidal man in March 2009, that caused him to lose an eye, is now in the running for a heroic award on a national TV program.
PORT ORANGE -- Tests for tuberculosis are being offered at Atlantic High School after a student there tested positive, the Volusia County Health Department said.
Health officials will offer free tuberculosis tests at Atlantic High School at 8 a.m. Monday, and 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Advanced Technical College there where the student was enrolled.
DAYTONA BEACH -- The 56-year-old Veterans Memorial Drawbridge that connects Orange Avenue with Silver Beach Avenue on the beachside, is shot and either needs significant rehabilitation or replacement altogether, according to Volusia County transportation officials.
DELTONA -- A Sanford SWAT officer's automatic rifle was stolen by a car burglar from his unmarked patrol car in front of his Deltona home, according to a published report by WFTV Orlando.
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Jaime Gordon, a suspected serial bank robber, was captured in Merrit Island Tuesday.
MERRITT ISLAND -- A suspected serial bank robber with heists reported in Volusia and three other surrounding counties has been apprehended, authorities said.
