PORT ORANGE -- First United MethodistChurchof Port Orange is featuring its best selection of pumpkins at its Pumpkin Patch with more than 2,000 pumpkins and assorted gourds available.
The Pumpkin Patch is open noon to 8 p.m.Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.Saturday and noon to 5 p.m.Sunday throughout the month of October.
DELTONA -- A motorcyclist lost his life late Friday afternoon in a collision with a car near the
intersection of Haulover Boulevard and Blackburn Avenue in Deltona, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.
The biker, whose name was not released, was thrown from the motorcycle in the collision with a Nissan Altima and was pronounced dead at the scene of the 4:30 p.m. accident, Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said.
The driver of the car, whose name was immediately known was uninjured and was alone in the car.
DELTONA -- A 12-year-old Deltona boy was hospitalized Thursday night after suffering burns on his face and chest, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.
DAYTONA BEACH -- The Animal Control Advisory Board meeting scheduled for today has been postponed to 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13. The meeting will be at the Emergency Operations
Center, 49 Keyton Drive.
DAYTONA BEACH -- A pilot's keen sense of smell was enough to do an emergency landing of a single-engine plane at Daytona Beach International Airport at 8:20 p.m. Saturday, officials there said, adding they had discovered a bird got caught in the engine.
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.
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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.
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. -- A low cost pet shop clinic to benefit the Concerned Citizens for Animal Welfare will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Ormond Beach Police Department, 170 W. Granada Blvd.
DELAND -- The DeLand Area Public Library will offer free craft sessions for adults from 10 a.m. to noon on the third Wednesdays of the month from October through March.
DAYTONA BEACH -- One hundred World War II veterans and their escorts will board a US Airways’ Airbus charter plane at Daytona Beach International Airport bound for Washington, D.C., at 6:26 a.m. Saturday. The group is the sixth from Central Florida to travel to the nation’s capital through the Volusia Honor Air program, which is organized by the Rotary Clubs in DeLand.
