ORMOND BEACH -- Gov. Rick Scott today named Dr. Frank Farmer of Ormond Beach as Florida's Surgeon General and announced he will retain Liz Dudek as secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration
DAYTONA BEACH -- There were three-motorcycle-related deaths during Bike Week 2011, which ended today.
There were seven biker-related deaths last year. Still, the 10 fatalities collectively from the last two Bike week pale in comparison to the carnage of 2006, when there were 19 deaths.
Courtesy photos / Michael Annicchiarico, 33, of Ormond Beach, has been named a "person of interest" in the case of missing 31-year-old Mandy Ciehanoski of Holly Hill, now presumed dead and the victim of homicide, according to the Sheriff's Office.ORMOND BEACH -- Missing for nearly three weeks without a trace, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office is now calling the search for a 31-year-old Holly Hill woman a homicide investigation.
ORMOND BEACH -- Police are are continuing their investigation into a Feb. 23 burglary at a business within blocks of the police station.
Courtesy photo / This surveillance photo captures a man who robbed the RBC Bank at 128 E. Granada Blvd, Ormond Beach on Friday afternoon. If you recognize him, please call Ormond Beach police at 386-677-0731.
ORMOND BEACH -- A man walked into the RBC Bank on East Granada Boulevard at 2:30 this afternoon and handed the teller demanding cash. The robber never showed or implied he had a gun and then fled after he was handed an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.
Courtesy photo / A sandal, as shown in this photo provided by the Ormond Beach Police Department, was found with a skull and other remains believed to that of a woman.ORMOND BEACH -- The skull and other remains discovered Sunday near the Ormond Business Park are those of a woman believed to have been the ages of 20 and 45, Ormond Beach police said today after receiving the results of an autopsy from the Volusia coroner's office conducted earlier in the morning.
The cause of death is unknown and is being treated as a suspicious death.
ORMOND BEACH -- Police were called Sunday afternoon after a group of people who were operating all terrain four-wheelers in a dried up canal bed saw what appeared to be a human skull protruding from the mud.
ORMOND BEACH -- The outside southbound lane across the U.S. 1 Tomoka Bridge will be closed beginning Monday to begin construction of the permanent water main replacement on the west side of the bridge.
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Coutesy photos / At far left, jail mug of Christian Pursley, charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Keith "Shorty" Roberts on his motorcycle shown on his Facebook memorial page. At right is Shannon Pursley, wife of the accused killer who was seeing the victim. The homicide police report is attached. You can read it by clicking the attachment.
ORMOND BEACH -- Shannon Pursley has to walk an even finer line shielding her children as she deals with the horror of having seen her boyfriend gunned down by her estranged husband during the early morning hours of New Year's outside the Rockin' Ranch bar.
"Im not only dealing with the mourning of Keith, but also dealing with the repercussions that the father of my child is in jail," she said Monday night in an exclusive interview with VolusiaNews.net.
