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DAYTONA BEACH -- Yippee Kayee! The Daytona Cubs won the Florida State League Championship Sept. 9, after defeating the Fort Myers Miracle, 7-3, at Jackie Robinson Ballpark, taking the best of 5 series, three games to one.

This was the Cubs' fourth championship since 1995, including titles in 2000 and 2004 sandwiched in between. The parent club is the Chicago Cubs, which hasn't won the World Series in a very, very long time. That's 100 years, but hey, who's counting?

DELAND -- A 29-year-old man who started an Aug. 9 fight at a DeLand convenience store because he didn't like the way another man stared at him paid for it with his life when he was stabbed in the neck, DeLand police said.

Steven Story, 29, was stabbed in the left side of his neck in the late night fight and was pronounced dead in the parking lot of the Kangaroo Express Mart at State Road 15A and West International Speedway Boulevard and died at the scene.

DAYTONA BEACH -- When police responded to calls of shots fired during the early morning hours of Sept. 21, they found Terry Mclaine in a pool of blood in a Bethune Street driveway. He died three hours later at Halifax Medical Center, the victim of two gunshot wounds in what police said was an apparent drug deal gone bad.

Richard Burnette, 35, of Palm Coast, was charged with second-degree murder.

Courtesy photo. Cutline: Monquisse Green of DeLand was charged with second-degree murder in the Sept. 5 fatal shooting of Kenya Rashawn Alexender.

 DELAND -- A 22-year-old DeLand man was shot and killed Sept. 5 on Valleydale Avenue by another man in an argument over a relationship involving a woman, DeLand police said.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Harpist and vocalist Melody Long Anglin will perform at the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library at 2 p.m. Saturday. The concert is free and open to the public.

A renowned harpist, Anglin recently won a first place award in WESH-TV’s “Best Music in Central Florida” contest. She received a master’s degree in musical performance at the University of Tulsa and plays a variety of music styles, including classical, jazz, pop, therapeutic, sacred and Celtic harp.

This “Live in the Library” performance is sponsored by the Friends ofthe New Smyrna Beach Regional Library.

DELAND -- Staff from the Volusia County Personnel Division will meet with representatives of the International Association of Firefighters union, which represent county firefighters, from 1:30 - 5 p.m. Tuesday, to discuss collective bargaining negotiations.

The meetings will be in the second floor conference room of the Volusia County Personnel Division, 230 N. Woodland Blvd., Suite 262, DeLand.

DELAND -- A motorcycle officer suffered a serious leg injury earlier today when his bike collided with a small truck that turned into his path and that of another motorcycle officer at the intersection of Woodland Boulevard and and Plymouth Avenue, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

DELAND -- Four masked men armed with guns smashed their way into the Howard Johnson Inn east of DeLand early this morning, pistol-whipped the clerk and made off with the money from the hotel's cash register, Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said.

The attack resulted in lacerations to his face and head of the 52-year-old male clerk who thrown to the ground and pistol-whipped on the back of the head. The clerk was transported by EVAC ambulance to Florida Hospital DeLand for treatment of his injuries, Davidson said.

Robert James Engelkamp, 83, of New Smyrna Beach, a retired postal supervisor for the U.S. Postal Service in Cincinnati, died Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2008.

Shelly Jo Johnson, 38, of Edgewater, a homemaker, died Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2008.

Betty Landrove, of New Smyrna Beach, who worked data processing in the health care industry, died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2008.

Marjorie McDowall Morris, 93, of New Smyrna Beach, a former office secretary for Avon Tube Corp., in Rochester, Mich., died Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2008.