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DEBARY -- The search for an accused murderer in the gunshot-slaying of a DeBary woman on Christmas Eve ended tonight with the discovery of the suspect's body in a wooded area of St. Johns County, Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said.

Robert Deo was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators believe the .38-caliber revolver found beside Deo's body
was the same weapon he used to shoot his live-in girlfriend, Christina Barber.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A Miami woman was killed and one of her two children critically injured early this morning after she apparently fell asleep at the wheel on Interstate 95 and wandered into the grassy median a mile south of the State Road 44 interchange and twice over-corrected her steering, which caused the vehicle to roll over several times, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Total passenger traffic at Daytona Beach International Airport (DBIA) decreased 34 percent in November 2008 compared with he same month a year earlier, said Vickie Pleus, a Volusia County spokeswoman.

During November, 29,300 passengers arrived and departed through DBIA, compared with 44,622 in November 2007. For the 12-month period ending Nov. 30, 608,912 passengers traveled through the county-operated airport, compared with 704,786 recorded during the prior 12-month period and representing a 14-percent decrease.

Photos by Capt. Budd Neviaser for NSBNEWS.net. Cutline: These wild turkeys are feeding well and should be ready for the Spring hunt. These two bucks hear turn their heads toward noise they've heard.

EDGEWATER -- The Friends of the Library will have a book sale in the Edgewater Public Library auditorium from 1 - 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30; and 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31.

The sale will include hardcover books, paperbacks, audio books, DVDs and magazines, said Pat Kuehn, Volusia County spokeswoman.

For more information, please call the library at (386) 424-2916. The library is open Monday through Saturday at 103 Indian River Blvd.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A man who police suspect tried to ram one of their patrol cars during an attempted arrest is on the loose.

PORT ORANGE -- Just days before Thanksgiving when a warning went out and through the first two weeks of December, at least 40 students at Spruce Creek High School came down with Chicken Pox.

There were at least 14 cases reported one day alone, with the vast majority of all the victims being ninth- and tenth-graders, school officials said.

DELTONA -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is investigating a report that a man forced his way into a Deltona home during the early morning hours of Oct. 24 and sexually
assaulted a 41-year-old woman.

Two children under the age of 10 also were in the home, but slept through the attack, Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught said.

DELTONA -- Volusia County Sheriff's investigators filed a criminal complaint affidavit June 12 with the State Attorney's Office charging 24-year-old Brandon Cardona with child neglect, leaving firearms within access of a minor and other felonies, two days after his 3-year-old son accidentally shot himself with a gun that resulted in a light grazing of the boy's chest.