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The video and audio evidence against Mainland High School football Coach John Maronto released Monday by the State Attorney's Office leads to Volusia County's winningest coach stepping down today, though his criminal defense attorneys maintain his innocence. Maronto was scheduled to take his Mainland squad in two weeks to play at New Smyrna Beach against his former team, the Barracudas. He was New Smyrna Beach's coach in the mid 1990s.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Mainland High School football coach John Maronto abruptly resigned today, two days after release of a Daytona Beach police surveillance video by the State Attorney's Office that accuses him of soliciting sex from an undercover Daytona Beach female cop posing as a prostitute during the Labor Day weekend.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- I am extremely upset that the "Merchants of Flagler" are going after CRA dollars for new Christmas decorations, $42,000 to be precise. I am a merchant there.

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Andrew J. Riddener, 22, of Holly Hill, was found guilty of sexual battery of a 12-year-old girl and faces up to 16 years in prison when he is sentenced next month. Click on the attachment to read the charging affidavits and police reports.

DAYTONA BEACH -- A jury deliberated for 1 ½ hours Thursday before finding Andrew J. Ridener guilty as charged to felony lewd or lascivious battery of a 12-year-old girl he met at at a local park and befriended as a youth minister.

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Tony Owens, 21, is being sought by New Smyrna Beach police on a warrant accusing him of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Cliff Dallas Baker. 26, of Oak Hill. Owens is a violent criminal considered armed and dangerous. Please click attachment for details.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 26-year-old Oak Hill man was shot and killed early this morning in the 600 block of Greenlawn Street and police are looking for his killer.

The shooting occurred 2:44 a.m.  Cliff Dallas Baker was transported to Bert Fish Medical where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Police are looking for 21-year-old Tony Owens of New Smyrna Beach, who is wanted on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the shooting.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A single-engine plane registered in New Smyrna Beach that took off from Edgewater's small airport crashed in Georgia Friday night, killing two of three people on board, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

At one point in everyone’s life in Florida, they have seen the insect called a dragonfly, which are characterized by long bodies, large multifaceted eyes, and two pairs of strong transparent wings.

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Tony Owens, 21, of New Smyrna Beach, wanted on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Cliff Dallas Baker, 26, of Oak Hill, early Saturday, was apprehended at the Wal-Mart later that night at the Wal-Mart in Ormond Beach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The 21-year-old New Smyrnan wanted on a first-degree murder warrant in the early Saturday morning shooting death of an Oak Hill man in the 600 block of Greenlawn Street was apprehended without incident later that night at the Wal-Mart in Ormond Beach, New Smyrna Beach police said.

Tony Owens was being held without bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach.

Robert Wayne Lott has had a lot of influence in public and private entities over the last half decade in greater NSB, but his financial and personal interests are being called into question by his critics, local officials and the federal government. NSBNEWS.net presents its investigative series "Lott of Influence."

DELTONA -- It started as a drug deal gone bad and three people are now facing charges of attempted murder after firing on a Volusia County Sheriff's deputy while trying to flee the scene of a robbery, an agency spokesman said Sunday.