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NSBNEWS.net gearing up for campaign 2010 coverage

Well, it's election season here in Southeast Volusia with Early Voting beginning Monday, Aug. 9, leading up to the Aug. 24 primaries. And NSBNEWS.net will have daily coverage, analysis and insight on the candidates, the issues and the mood of the voters.

Most of the non-partisan races for county and circuit judge, County Council will likely be over then with outright winners and partisan races for the Florida House and Senate, as well as state and federal races, setting the stage for the November elections.

Daytona Beach cops: Body found in Halifax River reeds identified as that of homeless man

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The body of a man that was found in reeds in the Halifax River was identified Wednesday as that of Franklin Lewis Yakym, 51, a homeless man.

DAYTONA BEACH -- The decomposing body of a man found Tuesday in the reeds near the shoreline of the Halifax River on Riverside Drive in Holly Hill has been identified as 51-year-old Franklin Lewis Yakym, who had been living in a homeless shelter, Daytona Beach police said.

Winn-Dixie to close one store in Deltona; NSB and Edgewater stores spared as part of major restructuring

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DELTONA -- The Winn-Dixie at 1200 Deltona Blvd. is among 30 stores in the Southeast that are closing as part of a restructuring, the Jacksonville-based grocery giant announced Thursday.

The Winn-Dixie on State Road 44 in New Smyrna Beach and the store on U.S. 1 in Edgewater are not affected by the closings, which are expected to be completed by Sept. 22, the company said in a press release.

NSB taxpayers hit multiple times for privelege of planning

The citizens of New Smyrna Beach are being forced to pay twice to get progress in our city. First, we are forced to submit to a system of useless public planning that stretches all the way to Tallahassee. Second, we pay a small fortune to hire a team of planning experts to guide our building projects through a maze of planning hurdles and then finally we find that our team of highly paid experts has let us down. The fact that they are no longer employed is a good start at fixing the problem.

Sheriff's Office: Ormond Beach woman arrested after making false abduction claim

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Vicki Teneyck, 54, of Ormond Beach, was arrested Friday after telling deputies she made up a claim of being abducted. 

ORMOND BEACH -- A 54-year-old Ormond Beach woman who claimed to be the victim of an abduction at the hands of a knife-wielding attacker is in jail after Volusia County Sheriff's investigators discovered that the woman's story was just that -- a story.

NSB COPS: Man, 23, arrested on child-porn charges; including sexually explicit pictures of a toddler

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Kenneth W. Crist, 23, of 605 Goodwin Ave., New Smyrna Beach, was arrested Friday on charges of possessing photos of child pornography.  According to New Smyrna Beach police, the sexually explicit photos possessed by Crist included that of a child no older than 3.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Police uncovered a dirty little secret behind the doors of 605 Goodwin Ave. when they arrived with a search warrant Friday morning. The occupant of the residence, 23-year-old Kenneth W. Crist soon found himself behind bars, charged with possessing pornographic photos of children, New Smyrna Beach police said.

Ex-planners Rakowski and Lingenfelter sought Oak Hill's planner job just weeks before scandal broke

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NSB's Planning Debacle

Just weeks before New Smyrna Beach's planning debacle brought dozens of city projercts to a grinding halt in June, Chad Lingenfelter, shown here with his hand raised, and Mark Rakowski, the two planners blamed by city officials for the mess, applied unsuccessfully for the planner's job in Oak Hill. See the attachments posted with this story for their applications to Oak Hill.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- In another bizarre twist in the city's planning debacle, then-Chief Planner Chad Ligenfelter and his former boss, Mark Rakowski, both applied for the planner's position in Oak Hill, just weeks before the scandal broke last month. Neither won over Oak Hill officials who were pleased and relieved New Smyrna Beach's embarrassment wasn't passed on to them.