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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office located the wreckage earlier this morning of a small plane that crashed in the woods near Lake Ashby east of Deltona and west of New Smyrna Beach. The two occupants, believed to be a flight instructor and a student pilot, died in the crash. Their identities have not been confirmed yet.

The plane, a single-engine Cirrus, is believed to have departed Tuesday afternoon from Orlando Sanford International Airport. Authorities in Seminole County launched

DAYTONA BEACH -- The Daytona Beach News-Journal fired nine newsroom employees Tuesday, bringing to total 186 employees let go in the past six months, along with the closings of its bureaus in New Smyrna Beach, DeLand, Deltona and Bunnell.

All are part of cost-cutting measures to get the newspaper ready for sale, though no prospective buyers have been announced since the News-Journal lost a lawsuit to its minority partner, Cox Enterprises.

ORMOND BEACH -- An Ormond Beach motorist who engaged Florida Highway Patrol troopers on a chase at speeds of up to 120, initially south of Edgewater on Interstate 95, was shot and killed in Ormond Beach by four troopers this morning after pointing a gun at them, according to the highway patrol.

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera King. Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas returned from Washington to New Smyrna Beach where she presented information on President Obama's stimulus package to jumpstart the economy. She told about 60 local small business owners at a breakfast meeting Thursday at the Smyrna Yacht Club that Florida would receive $12 billion in funding.

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. This Mustang collided with a Buick LeSabre on North Dixie Freeway at Eleanor Avenue at 10:30 tonight. No one was seriously injured, but southbound Dixie Freeway traffic had to be re-routed by police west onto Eleanor Avenue while firefighters tended to the occupants of both vehicles.

Fans of Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight” are invited to a fan party at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, at the Edgewater Public Library. “Twilight,” published in 2005, is the first in series vampire-romance novels.

The library staff will offer games, crafts, prizes and snacks. Fans can have their pictures taken with a life-sized cardboard cut-out of character Edward Cullen. Participants must be at least 14. Pre-registration is required and may be made by calling the library at (386) 424-2916.

For adults who have enjoyed this book, a book discussion club will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 31.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- An 18-year-old Edgewater woman was arrested early this morning on charges of possession of marijuana under 20 grams and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Kaila Blohm was transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach on the misdemeanor charges following a 1:10 a.m. motor-vehicle stop at Faulkner and Murray streets.
In an earlier unrelated arrest, a 25-year-old New Smyrna Beach man was arrested on an outstanding warrant following the report of a disturbance Friday afternoon in the 700 block of Downing Street.

DELAND -- Fire officials from Volusia County Fire Services are warning the public of telephone solicitors who may be contacting local citizens for donations, said Shelley Szafraniec, Volusia County spokeswoman. Over the past couple of days, fire officials received a call from a citizen asking if a telephone call they received from a “group” in West Palm Beach was legitimate.

“From what we understand, the caller said they were seeking donations on behalf of Volusia County Fire Services,” Volusia County Fire Services Director James Tauber said. “So far, we are not aware of anyone

I’m sad to read about the young man killed at the Medicine Shoppe. Mostly, I am sad for his family. They lost a son, a brother, an uncle. While the news media and townspeople vilify him for having an illness, what some people fail to take into account is that most addicts don’t chose to be addicts but once hooked on something, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and even food which most of us have battled at one time or another, the habits are almost impossible to break.